switzerland | The Dimwit Diary

Oh boy, oh boy. It’s beginning to look a lot like Fall in Pittsburgh! Time to get out there and snap a few photos … in the meantime, here are a few more photos from the archives. As always, feel free to download and use them for whatever. Mi photos es su photos. And if you’d like a high res photo, send me a message and I’ll hook a brotha’ or a sista’ up (or a transgender; I don’t discriminate).

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July 18, 2009
Oak tree. One of my favorite hangout / hideout spots behind the house where I grew up.
Shanksville, PA

September 13, 2010
Former YMCA / Current Y Lofts under construction
Scouted for the movie “One For The Money”
120 S Whitfield St
East Liberty, PA (Pittsburgh)

November 1, 2009
Moraine State Park
Portersville, PA

October 24, 2010
Picnic area at Seven Springs Four Seasons Resort
Village Drive
Champion, PA

November 27, 2009
Unity United Church of Christ graveyard just after a snowstorm
2074 Huckleberry Highway
Berlin, PA

October 21, 2010
Windmill Farm
Entrance Dr / Route 160
Friedens, PA (Near Shanksville)

April 16, 2011
GAYNGS concert
Coachella Music Festival
Indio, CA (Near Palm Springs)

June 20, 2008
Sunset at Harriet Street (Behind the Island Studio Soundstage)
McKees Rocks, PA

November 7, 2011
Antoni Gaudi’s “La Sagrada Familia”
Barcelona, Spain

July 4, 2012
4th of July fireworks display
Renziehausen (Renzie) Park
McKeesport, PA.

May 18, 2009
Taken in the field behind the house I grew up in.
Shanksville, PA

September 29, 2012
Sunrise at Moraine State Park (North Shore Boat Launch)
Portersville, PA

September 19, 2012
Old farmhouse and horse barn
Scouted for the movie “American Pastoral” to be filmed next year
Worthington, PA

February 1, 2010
Streets of Georgetown
Georgetown, Washington D.C.

November 3, 2011
Kannenfeldpark‎
Basle, Switzerland

It seems like everyone is a photographer nowadays. Every time I get on Facebook, somebody has started a new photography business. It use to annoy me – buy a nice camera, aim it at some pretty stuff, and suddenly that makes you a professional photographer – but now I think it’s great. I say the more photographers the merrier, because the saying “it’s a small world after all,” that’s just some bullshit Disney saying that somebody made up anyhow. It’s a great, big, ginormous world after all, and there’s not enough time for a person to see everything. So when somebody can take some nice photos and really capture a moment, take you to the top of a 15,000 foot cliff, or place you along a peaceful river bank to watch the sunrise, I’m all for it.

Go on shutterbugs. Fire away. I just have one bone to pick, however. If you insist on incorporating a flower into your logo, or if you dot your i’s with hearts, or if your flyer looks like an 8 year old made it during arts and crafts at summer camp for mentally challenged children, than I can’t take your photography business seriously. Sorry. That’s just the way it is. Maybe you should take up selling scented candles or tupperware instead. Oh my gosh, was that mean? I’m sorry. I woke up at, like, 4 o’clock this morning and I have to work all day today with these folks from Toronto. Ugh. Folks from Toronto.

I’m not a professional photographer, but I do enjoy having an excuse to get outside and to see things in a different light, so I take photos from time to time. Feel free to steal them and use them for whatever. And if you’d like a high res photo, shoot me a message and I’m sure we could work it out. Like maybe a high res photo for an Arby’s sandwich, or something like that. I’m a pretty reasonable guy AS LONG AS IT’S NOT 4 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. Gotta go. Toodles (by the way, is that not the worst expression ever? “Toodles.” Talk about a total barf-o-rama. I think it’s time to go get some coffee now…)

September 19, 2010
Sunrise at Moraine State Park
Portersville, PA