Anonymous: Hello Justin! I received a recommendation from Amy Braswell for your photography - I'm starting my own business in Western Maine (Rangeley) and will be hosting vacation rental excursions aboard my renovated houseboat, Nomad, this summer. I'm looking for a photographer who can shoot interiors, and I'm curious what you would charge for a 20-shot list, and if you'd perhaps be interested in a partial barter? I'd be thrilled to offer you a complimentary stay aboard Nomad! Timing would be early June.
Hey, thanks for reaching out. Would you mind dropping me a line at justin(at)justinmhamel.com to talk specifics? Thanks.
Last Friday Tampa Electric announced it’s plan to convert the Big Bend Power Station to natural gas within two years. If approved, it will be one of Florida’s largest power plant conversions. (at Big Bend Power Station)
Yesterday Nashville’s iconic Lifeway building was imploded to make way for a $1b development project encompassing 15 acres. (at Downtown Nashville)
Tarpon Springs, Florida. (at Tarpon Springs, Florida)
During the Great Depression, a program was created under the New Deal to provide communities with public art through Post Office Murals. The murals also boosted morale by celebrating local industry and historical events.
Today these murals often go unnoticed. Many are in disrepair, although a few have been restored and relocated to town museums and modern post offices. While photographing a mural in Kelso, Washington a lifelong resident stopped to admire the detail up close for the first time. In Jefferson City, Tennessee a woman regaled me with stories of her grandfather delivering the mail by horseback – she still has his USPS saddle bags.
Hundreds of Post Office murals are scattered throughout the country, each with their own story.
A selection of Post Office Murals are now on my website at http://www.justinmhamel.com/postofficemurals.
We’re blasting into the new year and not letting up. (at Hog Waller Mud Bog - The Real Deal)
Thanks everyone that helped make 2017 an incredible year. Commercial work and misadventure led me to begin my year by being stranded in a Costa Rican jungle, then moving on to Panama, and Mexico. In June @jordynrr and I sold our home and created @tendencytowander, our full-time travel and documentary photography business. Since then we’ve been to 29 states and 3 provinces to photograph everything from North Carolina’s solar eclipse to union strikes in Idaho’s Silver Valley, Yellowstone National Park to the Smokies, Alberta’s wheat fields to Florida’s fisheries, and everyone that makes up the communities in between. Here’s to a new year and new adventures. (at Florida)
St Pete, Florida. (at Snell Arcade)
A fourth-generation fisher moves clams on the boat - and begrudgingly acknowledges the camera - while his fellow clam harvesters prepare to tumble the days catch. Read more over at www.facebook.com/tendencytowander.
Cedar Key, Florida. December 22, 2017. (at Cedar Key, Florida)
Sorting the day’s catch. (at Cedar Key, Florida)
