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Stormy Weather

Jon Roemer — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:43:13 +0000

For anyone in the northeast lately the weather has been biblical. Torrential downpours, wind, and hail. Thunder morning, noon, and night.

We ventured out on Thursday evening to watch one massive cell passing to the southeast.

Watching the storms. Princeton, NJ, August 18, 2011. Click images to enlarge.

A full-size jet works its way around the storm cell.

Caught in the Act

Jon Roemer — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:09:17 +0000

On location last Friday in Flemington, NJ, for a story on the Mediatech Foundation.

Mediatech Foundation, Flemington Free Library, Flemington, NJ. July 15, 2011. Click to enlarge.

Wait Wait… We’re Home

Jon Roemer — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:45:35 +0000

We’re back from Maine after a long drive with stops in Bowdoinham, ME for lunch and the always reliable Rein’s in Vernon, CT for dinner. My kids are usually plugged into their iPods for much of the trip but a chance listening to Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me led to a marathon session of five or six WWDTM’s at their urging and courtesy of the free iPhone Public Radio Player app. Wait Wait… if you are listening – thanks for that bit of shared family fun on the way home. It’s a great way to end a vacation. President Clinton… if you are listening – nice job on My Little Pony.

I shot a lot this trip as evidenced by all of the square Hipsta photos preceding this post but the bulk of it was video on my 1DM4 and my iPhone or stills on my iPhone. My 1DsM3 spent much of the trip in its bag chilling out. I attribute that to a number of factors – this trip was not about doing as much as relaxing. You need a crowbar to get teens out of bed in the morning so we didn’t fight it. They could sleep late, we could kayak or run or read, and we would all do something together in the afternoon. That in itself led to being in less places which in turn led to less photos. I have also been to this area of Maine so many times that video and the Hipsta stills offered a way to see it new, so I gravitated toward that instead of feeling a need to work with the 1DsM3.

Afternoon on the links, Sedgewick, ME. July 7, 2011.

The one thing, the only thing, I photographed with the big camera was the early morning scene on Crockett Cove. Light, water, and mist too beautiful to turn my back on.

Sunrise, Crockett Cove, Deer Isle, ME. June 27, 2011. Click images to enlarge.

Sam's Island, Crockett Cove, Deer Isle, ME. June 27, 2011.

Flye Point

Jon Roemer — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:17:21 +0000

Flye Point, near Brooklin, Maine, is one of those spots to return to year after year.

Walking at low tide, with a few shin deep passages, you can make it well over a mile into Blue Hill Bay.

View back towards land, about a mile away. Flye Point, ME. July 8, 2011.

Leah shows us how a barnacle eats. Flye Point, ME. July 8, 2011.

Grace and Bix. Matching outfits?... Flye Point, ME. July 8, 2011.

There are a few more Flye Point images in the Maine Gallery on my web site. Click the info icon on the lower left to see the image captions.

Called on Account of Fog

Jon Roemer — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:06:14 +0000

After a one day delay, awaiting the fireworks. Stonington, ME. July 5, 2011.

Happy 4th

Jon Roemer — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:21:51 +0000

Start of the parade. Deer Isle, ME. July 4, 2011.

A Million Ways to Mix Orange and Black

Jon Roemer — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:20:45 +0000

Once a year in a great migration Princeton’s Alumni return to campus. Unlike other schools, they pay no heed to the constraints of five or ten. Come they will and come they must.

Colors and patterns:

Click images to enlarge.

The 2011 P-rade is also in the Motion Gallery on my web site.

New Splash Page Slideshow

Jon Roemer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:15:34 +0000

New splash page slideshow based on the recent People updates:

New splash page slideshow. Click image to go to main site, JonRoemer.com.

Financial Fly on the Wall

Jon Roemer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:09:26 +0000

Working with Princeton University this past winter to create images for Finance and Treasury’s web site. A mix of portraits and candids, here is a series of fly on the wall meeting shots:

Vice President Carolyn Ainslie and her staff. Click images to enlarge.

People Portraits – Recent, New Gallery Added

Jon Roemer — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:48:24 +0000

Rounding out a week of web site updates, my People Portraits – Recent gets a whole new gallery. 24 images on 20 pages, all shot within the past year.

The People Portrait - Recent gallery at JonRoemer.com.

To make room for this I have shifted the already published people galleries.

The old Recent gallery becomes Portraits – I.

The old Portraits – I gallery is now Portraits – II.

The old Portraits – II gallery is now Portraits – III.

The new images encompass some larger projects. I’ll get to these and to the background on the other images in upcoming blog posts.