Richard C Morais
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Milford Moons
A writer’s visual love letter to his ancestral village
By Richard C. Morais
I am a writer, not a professional photographer, but while working quietly on a murder mystery I’ve set in a fictional Eastern Pennsylvanian town, I began to wonder what image would quickly capture the mood and feel of the novel that was taking shape on the page.
Out walking my dogs Sherry and Maya late one night, I spotted what I was looking for, and took a snapshot of a Milford back alley, as the platinum moon shone in through the surrounding trees and picket fences. I confess I got a little OCD after that, and a thousand pictures later Milford Moons: A writer’s visual love letter of his ancestral village was born.
Milford Moons is a coffee table book of 250 photographs and related essays, a moody and atmospheric celebration of my nightly ramblings through town with the dogs, an attempt to visually capture the mysterious, timeless, and deep connections I have with this village in Eastern Pennsylvania.