I would say this looks Social-realist, except for the big shark week advertisement in the background.

Nice image of a singer, eh? How did she get that? Well, I’ll give you a hint. Its Beyonce. No, I didn’t meet her. She’s not actually real. This is the wax Beyonce from Madame Tussard’s House of Wax and Wackery. For a connoisseur of the waxy and tacky, this is a goldmine for me. This could be an entry just straight up on the figures and all, but I decided to make the photos like artistic paparazzi ones. Intrusive, but also verging on art. Feel free to tell me if I’ve succeeded or not:

Those two above, in real life, already look like they are made of wax.

To enjoy this photo, you have to be Hungarian. And double jointed!:

The Wood-man, all alone:

Don’t be fooled by the rocks she got:

Be fooled by the Benz, Rolls and personal umbrella holder.

Leo and Miss Tuna or Chicken:

Look at this pretty lady and Gloria Estefan:

OK, its Jon Bon Jovi.

Old Hollywood star James Dean done up to look like an old Hollywood photo:

And to end it, Andy Warhol, improved in post production to look like a work of Andy Warhol:

I don’t know who I find more interesting. Warhol, or the girl in the background trying to look like Lady Liberty?

More from the harbor series:

Love how the boat glows like that in the photo.

I was going to go into a whole spiel about these photos and how they are influenced by Damien Loeb and photorealism, but I’m going to skip that. I don’t feel like getting existentialist today. I know, it would be a day without sunshine without some kind of weird contemplation by me, but I just wanted to put these photos out there, for all to see. And praise. Heap praise on. Just kidding.

And without further chattering noises, I present:

These photos above are as is. I did not manipulate them at all. That is how the water front looked at sunset. I love these photos. They are some of my favorites I’ve taken lately.

But, its not like I can restrain myself from the tinkering:

By the way, that is a blimp up there, not a UFO.

One more, just to make it an even number of photos:

I’m just as good as Damien Loeb, gosh darn it.

New York is looking mighty abandoned over here:

No, just kidding:

Its actually a house in Rhode Island.

All right, I admit it. I get inspired by other photographs. This one above was inspired by a photograph called “Soliloquy of the Broom” taken by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841. I didn’t totally rip it off, but I am happier with this one than other attempts at this photo.

I had to make it me:

And, I love those sepia tones:

See, I told you we’d get back to the crazy colors.

Actually, it looks like he’s about to give me a hug. Anyway, these are not artistic. They are just funny, so no commentary about “where are the crazy photos?” Sometimes, I just like to be funny.

He gets coquettish:

And, our little Blackberry man is a patriot:

Don’t worry. We’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming, momentarily.

Boston is smaller than New York, so it gets a smaller day in the life up here on the blog. This entry is focused on something that play a big role in my life — taking public transportation. My “fan(s)” know I take lots of fine photos on public transportation. Well, I hope these are fine:

I like the b&w one. My dad said too many pits were being exposed. To each, his own.

And, another addition to my vastly expanding collection of photos of people playing instruments on the train:

Well, I got the guy moving while playing his instrument and another guy sitting right by, fascinated. Enjoy.