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Matt Otto Photography
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NYC photographer specializing in landscape, travel, street, & theater. Award-winning work that transforms moments into stories. 🎭🌆
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Glorious Blue Skies
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#photography #dailyphoto #travel #beach #travel #summer #sea
Low tide at the beach. A Ocean City life guard stand is in the middle of a little bit of water. Two lifeguards are sitting on the roof. The water reflects the stand the sand and the almost clear bright blue sky, with sunbeams peaking out on the top left side of the image.
July 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Monotone photo of the top of Chrysler Building in black and gold at night looking up to it from the ground.
July 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Building castles made of sand 🏰🏖️
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Who doesn't love Jimi Hendrix? 🎸🎶
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#photography #dailyphoto #travel #beach #travel #summer #sea
Upclose view of three drip castles one is on the extreme foreground on the left and one just a little behind it a third is a little further away and in the background is the blue of the Atlantic Ocean. The scale makes them look like actual fairy castles.
July 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Glimpse of the Public Market
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#seattle #pnw #washington #washingtonstate #seattlewashington #photography #dailyphoto #travel
Bright and bustling, this photo captures Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market sign under a vivid blue sky. A flower-lined roof and retro clock add charm, while string lights and shadows frame the energetic scene.
July 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Sun-kissed Ironwork
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#photography #dailyphoto #travel #frederick #frederickmd #maryland #downtownfrederick #visitfrederick #frederickmaryland
a beautifully ornate iron railing in the foreground, with a symmetrical floral design at its center. Behind it, a peaceful canal flanked by stone walls stretches into the distance, reflecting the soft glow of the late afternoon sun. Sunbeams filter through leafy trees, casting a golden light and creating a serene, timeless atmosphere. In the far background, a small footbridge and distant buildings are visible, enhancing the sense of depth and quiet urban charm.
July 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Playful Otter
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A grey furred, wet, sea otter holds a plastic orange toy while at the edge of its enclosure. The water behind him is a warm teal blue.
July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Peaks and a Glacier
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#juneau #alaska #juneaualaska #alaskalife
Snow-covered peaks with rugged terrain dominate the background. Mendenhall Glacier is seen nestled between the mountains near the center. The still water in the foreground reflects the mountains and sky clearly and dense forested slopes are visible at the base of the mountains.
July 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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🏖️🏔️Sandy Beaches and Snowcapped Mountains.
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An old pump house from the abandoned mine stands alone along a yellow Sandy Beach, with the Gastineau Channel separating the pump house form the wooded snowcapped mountain in the background.
July 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Summer Tetons 🏞️
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#nationalparks #nationalpark #nature #travel
Summer shot of the Grand Tetons from far away. They are extremely bare but the field before them is lush and green and a bright blue sky behind them and long thin clouds streak through the sky.
July 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Fountain View
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The Lincoln Center Fountain at full height at night silhouetting a young lady who is sitting on the railing facing the fountain, the outside lights of the Ballet building are in the background.
July 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Rainbows Spin & Swirl 🌈
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My first love of photography was Long Exposure photography. I still find it captivating.
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#amusementpark #themepark #fun #photography #travel
The spinning swing ride at Playland in Ocean City, NJ, is shot with a long exposure technique to create dramatic motion blur and light trails. The central column is brightly illuminated, covered in yellow and white lights. The canopy/top of the ride spins and its colorful lights form circular, streaking patterns—especially in red, yellow, blue, and white. The lights also form a vibrant halo effect, giving a sense of intense movement and energy. All in front of a deep blue sky in the background. The image has a vivid, surreal quality, emphasizing both the excitement of the carnival atmosphere and the artistry of light in motion.
July 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Nem Smart Street Art
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A metal door covered with an old poster and tons of graffiti tags in black white and red sharpie surrounding it and layered over it. On the left side is an original drawing of an android character.
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The Fairy Castles of Bryce Canyon Utah
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A view from below of a part of the Fairy Cathedral in Bryce Canyon, depicting tall, jagged spires of bright orange-red rock in hoodoo formations. The sky is a deep, vibrant blue, transitioning to lighter shades and pinkish clouds on the right side, creating a striking contrast with the warm-toned rock. The lighting highlights the texture and layers of sediment in the rock, suggesting ancient geological history shaped by wind and water.
July 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Ending the Day
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The light of Ocean City is quite good.
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#beach #travel #summer #sea
A panoramic beach scene showing a wooden boardwalk through sand dunes toward the dark blue ocean which expands across the whole image and into the distance. Beach grass lines the path with weathered fencing on both sides. Posted signs and a distant lifeguard chair are visible on the sandy beach. The dramatic sky features layered clouds under warm golden lighting, creating a peaceful coastal atmosphere during sunrise or sunset.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And Atlantic City peaks out from the left side of the image in the distance.
July 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Deep Brown Trees Standing Tall
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#juneau #alaska #juneaualaska #alaskalife
The lower trucks of a collection of tall skinny pine trees the tops cannot be seen but the bark is deeply contrasted in brown and blacks. Taken along the Perserverance Trail in Juneau Alaska
July 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🎭 Beautifully Wicked City 🗽
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I love New York and wanted to capture the energy of the city in this one image.
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A vibrant, long exposure nighttime photograph of Times Square in New York City, showing the iconic bright digital billboards of Wicked and other Broadway wya shows and neon signs creating streaks of colorful light. The image captures the movement of traffic with light trails from vehicles passing through the busy intersection. The surrounding buildings and skyscrapers are visible in the background, with their lit windows creating a glowing urban atmosphere. The overall effect is a dynamic, energetic representation of the bustling city nightlife with pink, blue, yellow, and white light streaks dominating the composition.
July 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Bridged 🌁
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The Long Port bridge in Ocean City NJ, heavily silhouetted at sunset. The sun casts a golden light between the bridges supports and under the bridge as well as being reflected in the recent surf of the ocean. Above the bridge is a rich blue sky. With some white clouds peaking over the bridge.
July 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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📸 Same building nearly 30 years later!

From July 6th 2025.
Centennial Building, Ocean City NJ, 2025. Deep brown and grey wood planks consume the foreground where the centennial building and its facade of modern stores and shops expand across the center of the frame. People in summer clothing are everywhere walking toward the viewer, across the frame, and into the stores. A rollercoaster tower peaks out above the center left of the building.
July 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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📸 Here it is in modern day, July 6th 2025
Centennial Building, Ocean City NJ, 2025. Deep brown and grey wood planks consume the foreground where the centennial building and its facade of modern stores and shops expand across the center of the frame. People in summer clothing are everywhere walking toward the viewer, across the frame, and into the stores. A rollercoaster tower peaks out above the center left of the building.
July 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Lean-to on Sandy Beach.
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Extreme foreground is an improvised lean-to made out of drift wood. on a sandy beach Gastineau Channel in the background and beyond that is some wooded and snow covered mountains.
July 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🗽 Arrivals & Time Tables
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The central ticket kiosk at the center of grand central the big windows in the far background which quickly give way to the clock that says 3:10. Below that signs that read MTA Metro- North Arrivals and MTA Metro-North Timetables. A glimpse of the constellations in the ceiling are sign on the upright side of the image.
July 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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A view from the hallway through the entrance to tracks 36 & 37 of grand central. Trains are on both tracks. The ramp extends down into the distance. bathed in a low saturated golden light.
July 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Cordon’s Inlet, Ocean City, NJ
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Tide lightly rolling in on the beach of Corson's Inlet with crowds of the Ocean City NJ boardwalk in the distance. Waves breaking beyond the shore.
July 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🎆 Some fireworks shots from the 4th.🎇

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#fireworks #july #independenceday #fourthofjuly
A series of big red fireworks explode and chan ge to a deep blue as the embers fall back to earth. Big purple fireworks explode as there main subject two smaller red fireworks explode closer to the ground against a clear dark blueish purple sky.
July 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I love the train. The liminal space between my home life and working life. Easy to transition and refocus on whats important depending if I am coming or going. 🗽🚊

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A isometric view of the front of a silver MetroNorth Train with a blue strip down the side is emerging out of a tunnel heading north. It is riding on rusty rails and is two tracks away from the viewer. The background is a large yellow wall that eventually fades to a blue grey at its base. The train is number 6125 which is displayed on the side and next to its headlights. It also has a horn at the center top.
April 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM