Empty Sky – New Jersey September 11 Memorial, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:While the walls are over 30 feet high, the names are engraved along the lower portions. I’ve seen photos of people tracing over the names of people they lost. This woman, with her family, touches the name of someone that…

Empty Sky – New Jersey September 11 Memorial, originally uploaded by john m flores.

Brian Novotny, Empty Sky – New Jersey September 11 Memorial, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:The bent and sheared bolts (at least 1" in diameter) suggest the horrific forces of that day. Loved ones leave flowers and photos in memory of those lost.

Empty Sky – New Jersey September 11 Memorial, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:The memorial with the downtown Manhattan skyline in the background. The Twin Towers once stood – impossibly tall – at the end of this view. The mood is very reflective and somber here, and the people visiting seem to come…

Empty Sky – New Jersey September 11 Memorial, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, is Empty Sky, a Memorial to the 746 New Jerseyans that died on 9/11. Two stainless steel walls, separated by a walkway, point across the Hudson River to where the World…

Twin Tower Memorial, April 12, 2002, originally uploaded by john m flores.

Butcher Shop, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:I’ve got this thing for mundane photos. You know, places and scenes that you see every day, but one day you notice something about the light that makes it…different. So you snap a couple and hope for the best. That’s why you should always have a…

Another siesta., originally uploaded by john m flores. And so the Pentax K-5 era begins, appropriately enough, with a sleeping cat.

Life in Surburbia is a Well-Stocked Cage, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:Got a new wrist strap for the GF2, replacing the standard neck strap. It’s a little smaller, that is to say, not a lot smaller, but there’s something positively jaunty about having the camera dangle from your wrist as you are…

Sunflower, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:While I really like the macro shots, this (and the others like it) may be my favorites of the set. The bright colors, the dynamic movement, and the blown out backgrounds give these shots a very graphic, almost illustrative feel to them. In my mind’s I see…