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I had one of those freelance jobs this week that left me feeling good about the world and the state of the industry. I made some great pictures, for an awesome new commercial client, of people in my community making a difference. Now I certainly don’t wanna be greedy, but… I wish more gigs were like that.

DC is swampy already, so we’ve escaped to the Jersey Shore for a long weekend.

The added bonus is that it’s my son’s first birthday today. My wife spent her first birthday here in Cape May, and there’s an epic picture of her in a kiddie pool that I hope to recreate with the boy.

Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving this week:

Photos of the “top-secret nuclear bunker that was built underneath the luxurious Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia to house all 535 members of Congress in the event of a nuclear attack.” Also digging The Underground House, The Secret City, and the Nevada Nuclear Weapon Test Site… all by British-born, Danish-based photographer Alastair Philip Wiper, whose aesthetic I’m really digging.

Graciela Iturbide has a new book with her work from East Los Angeles.

Starbucks doesn’t give a f*ck about being a third space. Build community. Support local coffee shops. (What’s a third space and why are they important? A Primer.)

As someone who kind of left Instagram just over a year ago, archiving 5,000+ images and going dark, I recently came across something near and dear to my heart — Off The Grid, a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their clients. And while (obv!) not everything applies, I enjoyed what I got out of this recent episode with business coach Jen Carrington — (Re)building Your Business Around Your Capacity.

Epic: This 17-year-old biked from Alaska to Argentina after HS graduation.