A Slow Boat To China (or a 16 hour flight…)

Somehow April has become travel-month for me this year, which is always exciting. Tomorrow morning I take off for a 16 hour journey to Hong Kong! A little over a year or so ago I had the rare chance to visit Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo. This time around it’s strictly Hong Kong, which i’m told…

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Male Modeling photo test – Lake Mohegan CT

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Male Modeling Photographer | Connecticut models Every now and then I get the itch to do something photographically simply for fun and to try out some new things. Recently I was going through old images I had taken of Male models that I started posting on Instagram, and it was not only fun to look…

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vintage motels in Las Vegas

Roadside America | Mid-Century Hotel Signage in Las Vegas   Well I figure while i’m discovering these old files why stop now while on on an old motel roll?! This set is from the outskirts of Las Vegas. If you are at all familiar with Vegas, this was all located past that downtown “Fremont Street…

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a retro blast from the past: Old Chicago Motels

roadside america | Mid-century motel design So this is what I get for poking around in some old backup drives looking for files from way back: a little trip down memory lane and some time wasted. I found all sort of photos (baptisms, Christmas, holidays and vacations) and then I came across these. I REMEMBERED…

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it’s ‘Robert Norman Week’ at Amy Champagne Events!

My good friend Amy of Amy Champagne Events told me recently that she was going to post several weddings we did together this week, and make a ‘Robert Norman Week’ out of it, which kind of made me laugh. Still, it really was quite flattering as well as fun to see our work all compiled together…

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My trip to Asia – part 4.5

So welcome to Part five and thanks for sticking with me here. Before we left for Tokyo we did a little more guided touring (which was really so great since she gave us a much deeper understanding of what on earth we were looking at) I really wanted to go see the Temple Of Heaven…

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My trip to Asia – the Final Post: ROBOT RESTAURANT

SO i’m betting everyone who has been following along is as exhausted and jet lagged as I WAS when I got home–lol. But I swear – this is the last post and the final time you’ll see be babbling about China…but today we’re just talking about Tokyo, Japan. The flight from China to Tokyo was…

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My Asia trip- part 4 (!)

I know, I know–‘enough already with these damn China posts’ you’re saying… So as part of our tour we strolled though the Beijing Night market ( except we went during the daytime) which was probably a good thing since some of the sights were haunting enough in the full sun [i’ll warn you now this…

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My Asia Trip – part two

Forgive me for jumping around a little, but after 10 days of seeing so much, even I CANNOT keep straight what happened when! We had a drover who schlepped us around at our whimsy (you are not allowed to rent cards in China, and if you ever go you’ll see why–it’s not a place i’d…

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my Asia Trip – part 3 (!)

SO thanks for following along here on this virtual trip with me – it’s fun to go through edit down and revisit places this way, and I hope you;re enjoying it as well. We took a 5.5 hour bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing. And the rumors about pollution are all true. Get this- we…

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