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Adventures of a GoodMan is my answer to the age-old question: I traveled...now what? In it, I blend digital photographic art with stories chronicling my journeys abroad and at home.
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- Hotel Rooms For $3 per Night – You Get What You Pay For!
- Quiero Ir a Cuba
- Top Tourist Attractions in Canada
- James Bond in Turkey – the Maiden’s Tower
- Lighthouse Sunset on the Pacific Coast Highway – Montera, California
- Indian Desert Sunset + Silhouetted Camel
- An Indian Tree: Photo of the Day
- 5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About San Francisco
- Seven Years of this Site’s Evolution: Told Through Screenshots
- Incredible Lightning Storm Photography Over New York City Bridges
Featured Stories
- Hotel Rooms For $3 per Night – You Get What You Pay For!
- Lighthouse Sunset on the Pacific Coast Highway – Montera, California
- 5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About San Francisco
- Incredible Lightning Storm Photography Over New York City Bridges
- Electric Wires in the Sky & Trolleybuses in San Francisco
- What to Do in Hawaii With Senior Citizens?
- My Hawaiian Honeymoon With 90 Year Olds
- Using Freelancers to Create a New Adventures of a GoodMan
- A Tribute to Hazel
- Epic Baseball Road Trip: 5 Stadiums – 5 Days – 1,260 Miles of Driving
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Incredible Lightning Storm Photography Over New York City Bridges
Incredible photographs of lightning bolts crashing over the Queensboro Bridge and a Con Edison power plant in New York City. Plus, stories of the experience and how I got the shots.
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Posted in * Highlights by Country, Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Home Life and Everyday Adventures, My Favorites, Nature, New York, Photography, Photos With Stories, Roosevelt Island
Tagged Bolt, Greg Goodman, Lightning, Nature, New York City, NYC, Roosevelt Island, Storm, USA, Weather
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Electric Wires in the Sky & Trolleybuses in San Francisco
When I first moved to San Francisco in 2009, I was very bothered by the “ugly wires” that ran above the streets. Teeming with a strong electric current, these wires power a fleet of zero emission MUNI trolleybuses. Now, I consider them a part of the City’s charm.
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Rolling Green Hills & Hidden Humanity
While driving through Petaluma on my way back from The Sea Ranch, I stumbled across this green and tranquil scene in the mountains.
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Posted in * Photography by Theme, Nature, Photo of the Day
Tagged California, Photo of the Day, Road, USA
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What to Do in Hawaii With Senior Citizens?
I spent my honeymoon-ish in Maui, Hawaii, with my wife’s 90 year old grandparents! Along the way we did some stuff, didn’t do other things and fought 6 foot waves to try and board a sunset cruise from the beach. Photography and storytelling tell the tales of this unique adventure.
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My Hawaiian Honeymoon With 90 Year Olds
My wife and I lovingly joked that taking her 89 year old grandmother Mary and her 91 year old husband Ron on our first trip after our wedding was like our honeymoon-ish.
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Epic Baseball Road Trip: 5 Stadiums – 5 Days – 1,260 Miles of Driving
Photos, stories & time-lapse videos from 5 baseball stadiums: St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers.
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Posted in Baseball Stadiums, Epic Baseball Road Trip: 5 Days - 5 Stadiums - 1, Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Major League Baseball, My Favorites, Photos With Stories, The USA, Travel Journals, United States
Tagged America, Baseball, Fisheye, Mets, MLB, Photography, Travel Journals, USA
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5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About My Adventures in the USA
The five posts featuring my best photographic and storytelling work from life in the United States. Highlights include Route 66, Washington, DC, New York City and California.
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Posted in Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, My Favorites
Tagged About, America, Blog Posts, Introspective, My 7 Links, New York, Route 66, San Francisco, Top 10, USA
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I Caught a Foul Ball at Angels Stadium (+ Fisheye Photography)
A wave of pure childhood glee swept over me as I started screaming in the least-manly way possible, “Oh my god! I just caught a foul ball!” I also spent a few innings capturing every inch of the stadium with a fisheye lens.
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Posted in Baseball Stadiums, California, Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Major League Baseball, My Favorites, Photography, United States
Tagged Baseball, California, Fisheye, MLB, Photography, USA
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What I Did Last Night: San Francisco Photography
One of my favorite things to do is to spend an evening searching through my archives and editing a whole bunch of photos. Sometimes they all are of a similar theme (like this one of San Francisco), and others they are completely unrelated.
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A Google+ Adventure Around San Francisco
When the Interwebs meet real life… I joined 30 Google+ photographers in San Francisco to wander around and take pictures of the city’s buildings, bridges, construction sites, sculptures and urban swagger. What follows are a dozen of my best shots as well as stories of what it was like meeting these complete strangers.
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Posted in California, Cities, Featured Posts Slider, Growing as an Artist, Highlights, My Favorites, Photography, Photos With Stories, San Francisco, Social Media, United States
Tagged America, Bridge, buildings, California, City, Google, Greg Goodman, Photo Essay, Photo Walk, San Francisco, USA
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Traveling to Florida? Here’s What to Expect.
Wondering what’s up with Florida? Wonder no more as you read this post full of travel tips, destination descriptions and photography to help you decide just where to go in the Sunshine State
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Posted in Florida, Location Guides, United States
Tagged America, Boats, florida, key west, Ocean, Photography, Sunset, Sunsets, Travel Guide, USA
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Timelapse Videos: Summer in San Francisco Sure is Cold and Foggy!
When I moved across the country from New York City to San Francisco, I thought I was coming out for a slice of the good life with California weather. Daily shorts and flip flops were my dream, though once I got here I soon realized that sweatshirts and layers were …
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Posted in California, Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, San Francisco, United States, Videos and Multimedia
Tagged America, California, Clouds, Fog, Multimedia, San Francisco, Timelapse, USA, Videos
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Baseball Stadiums With a Fisheye: The Oakland Athletics’ O.co Coliseum
Unique fisheye photography of the home of the Oakland Athletics baseball club, O.co Coliseum, from all levels of seats and all areas of the stadium taken with a 10.5mm lens.
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Extreme Curves in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is filled with curvy roads, though none are as intense as the one bringing visitors thousands of feet up into the clouds to gawk at Half Dome, Nevada Falls and the whole of Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point.
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Posted in * Photography by Theme, Concepts, Fisheye, Foggy & Gray, Nature, Photo of the Day, Roads, Transportation
Tagged America, Asphalt, Clouds, Curves, Fisheye, Fog, Greg Goodman, National Park, Nikon D80, Road, Trees, USA, Yosemite
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Dramatic Changes: New York City’s St Thomas Church Gets a Photoshopping
I spend a lot of time in Photoshop reimagining my images. Sometimes it’s a small contrast, density or curve change. Other times its a lot of sharpening, vibrance, saturation and more. In general, I usually try and make my images look like the vibrant memory I have: as if looking through a pair of polarized sunglasses.
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Posted in Before and After, Buildings, Cities, Concepts, Fisheye, Photography
Tagged Dramatic Changes, Fisheye, Greg Goodman, New York City, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Tutorial, USA
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A Ring of Fog Around Yosemite’s Nevada Falls: Photo of the Day
A recent trip to California’s Yosemite National Park found Ansel Adams’ famous place of inspiration shrouded in a dense fog that only got thicker the further up I went. Upon arriving at Glacier Point, I found a wall of white and gray separating me from a view of Half Dome and Nevada Falls.
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Posted in * Photography by Theme, Black & White, Concepts, Foggy & Gray, Nature, Photo of the Day
Tagged * Photography by Theme, Black & White, Clouds, Fog, Greg Goodman, National Park, Nature, Nikon D80, Photography, USA, Yosemite
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Napo’opo’o Lighthouse in Maui, Hawaii
Today’s photo of the day is the Napo’opo’o lighthouse on the north side of Kealakekua Bay in Maui, Hawaii.
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Posted in * Photography by Theme, Lighthouses, Photo of the Day
Tagged * Photography by Theme, Hawaii, Lighthouse, Maui, Photography, USA
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Travel Back in Time on San Francisco’s Historic Streetcars: Photo of the Day
Regardless of where I’m heading in San Francisco, I always try and find a way to take the historic F line streetcar. A lover of the rails since my father and I first set up a Lionel train in my childhood bedroom, I think these rolling museums may be my favorite part of the city.
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