Jim Barraud

The boy circa 2004

The girl turns five.

I voted at 7AM. It probably doesn’t need to be said, but today is a historic election. Make sure you vote.

This photo is my submission for the New York Times Polling Place Project.

The family and I took a spontaneous trip down to Cape May County Zoo today and this was one of the more interesting shots I got. I don’t know what kind of bird it is, but it was moving rather slowly. The implied speed was a happy accident.

I took the wife to see John Mayer at the Borgata in Atlantic City last night. While I did go into it hesitantly, I will admit it was a great show (Our great position in front of the stage didn’t hurt either). He’s a tremendous guitar player and when you take his studio albums combined with his live performances he reminds you very much of a modern day Clapton.

Yes we can.

Submitted as my contribution to the Polling Place Photo Project

It feels strange posting this today since our town has the ass-backwards tradition of Trick or Treating on the 30th. A tradition which is wrong on every level. But none the less, Happy Halloween.