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Hymanson? Unfortunate last name for sure
Well she married into it. And Mr. Hymanson grew up in Long Island or some-such, where it was not uncommon to have that name, or Lipshitz/Lifshitz, or any number of others representing Jewish ancestry. In that respect, their daughter (who can take on her spouse's name) is luckier than the spouses of their twin sons.
 
We had one of those harvest moons or some sort the other night, and this is the insanity it generated - all because the moon would be rising behind the Nubble lighthouse in York. I think everyone owning a telephoto lens on the eastern seaboard was lined-up at the lower end of Long Sands beach.

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This is what they were trying to capture

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We had one of those harvest moons or some sort the other night, and this is the insanity it generated - all because the moon would be rising behind the Nubble lighthouse in York. I think everyone owning a telephoto lens on the eastern seaboard was lined-up at the lower end of Long Sands beach.

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This is what they were trying to capture

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It IS a pretty cool image though.
 
On a related note, here's a closer shot of a section of the crowd.

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What does this say about our society, that everyone and their brother has a goddamned multi-thousand-dollar photo rig? Back when I was in high school and into photography, this would've never happened. Because people driving Pintos with rubber-mat interiors weren't inundating the streets with mountains of high-end photo gear. There's just too many people with the fuck-you money. Get off my lawn!
 
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