Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Summer’s Late Breakfast

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From the classic white mug to the pink and green counter stools
Norm’s Diner 171 Bridge Street Groton Ct has Style!


Three pm on a sizzling Sunday a break in the action at Norm’s gives me a moment to play with the mosaic of time. Conversation with Davo pauses as my mind drifts to the 50’s. I love diners,  small business and the people, real people. Norm’s has that welcoming feel the kind that is absent in the rubber stamp Mallonian “food” industry.


Stop by enjoy some eggs, linger with the paper, conversation humanity. Support small business it is the backbone of your town. Parking is shaded by trees a nice feature you won’t find at the Mall.

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Spring of ’72 or of Photographic Art

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1972 it was a long time ago. The spring of my visual journey one camera two lens a new 105mm and a train trip to NYC. Early weekend day stroll to Staten Island Ferry for a ride over and back. Still a student, yet the seeds are planted the road mapped out. Fertilized with Woodstock, The Vietnam War and social consciousness. The Passionate observer was born.

Already shooting and seeing full frame the rectangle was new composition and visual statements began.


The first years there was so much to see yet being new I sometimes would not shoot for I had not learned the nuance of subtle confrontation. Perhaps this quality taught me to be selective to pre edit what I commented on? Editing isn’t done anymore just make 100 images and post them all good doesn’t matter it is now speed and greed. But I digress to the future 1001101010. This day trip yielded less than a roll of film yet now 38 years later I find almost a quarter of the images worthy of the print.

The women one the link above was immediately worthy of a print and shown for a class assignment. It was not a stolen image as I communicated to her with a gesture that I was going to shoot her a gesture in return and a moment was created.     enjoy pjc
past the 140 character digital chains again but this is about the Seventies when there was a deep end to the gene pool. Reality/sarcasm/cynicism/optimism all in the blender to seek provoke communication. ART!

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