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Hello everyone,

I set up this site to provide a convenient way to make my pictures available to friends and family. Since this frequently involves shooting my childrens activities, such as Karate, baseball, softball, soccer and school activities, I password protect those galleries to protect the privacy of the children. Please contact me at junkman888-smugmug@yahoo.com if you having trouble accessing the galleries.

Please feel free to leave comments. It is always helpful for me to know what you think, how these photos could be better, and how the website is working.

Please note I have put copyright notices on everything.

Thanks
John Cerra

Listen to modern folk? Go to http://www.emmycerra.com. As far as I know, we are not related, but I figured that one Cerra is supposed to help the other:)

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Galleries

U2 at Fordham University 3/6/09 - Good Morning America : Long overdue: Irish rock legends U2 play at Fordham, the unofficial Irish college of New York. If you know me, you might know I was Concert Committee chair at Fordham when U2 started touring. They were offerred to us, without even a demo tape, so we passed. In 1983, my brother Joe, then the chairman, bid the committee's entire budget on them, only to get outbid by Rochester. It was a bit surreal seeing this, but quite the day nonetheless. Sorry if the photos are not of the highest image quality, I shot with an advanced P&S with an articulated screen, so I could see where I was aimed as I held the camera over my head.

U2 at Fordham University 3/6/09 - Good Morning America

Long overdue: Irish rock legends U2 play at Fordham, the unofficial ...

Updated: Mar 07, 2009 6:05am PST

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Roselle Catholic/Girls Catholic '78 Reunion

The Roselle Catholic High School Class of 1978 and The Girls Catholic ...

Updated: Mar 03, 2009 5:11pm PST

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Some of Dad's Best Photographs

I am posting some of the very best work that my father produced. I ha ...

Updated: Feb 15, 2009 2:47pm PST

Safari and Misty : Safari is our new dog, a Coton de Tulear. I will post all of her photo's in this directory. Misty was our Siberian Husky when I was growing up.

Safari and Misty

Safari is our new dog, a Coton de Tulear. I will post all of her photo ...

Updated: Feb 07, 2009 7:41pm PST

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Tray 15 Spain and France, Sept 1965

Updated: Jan 17, 2009 8:29am PST

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Tray 16 - London 1965

Updated: Jan 11, 2009 7:56pm PST

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Patricia - First Communion Portraits

I would not want to give away Patricia's age, so let's just say this w ...

Updated: Jan 02, 2009 7:32pm PST

Operation Sail, July 4 1976, New York City : The US Bicentennial was celebrated in grand fashion in many ways. In New York, a vast flotilla of ships, sailed up the Hudson River. My father and our family was invited to a party on the 26th floor of the World Trade Center, Tower 2, I think. In anticipation of this this my parents gave me a new professional grade camera, a Konica T-3. Armed with just the 50mm f1.7 lens, I shot 4 or 5 rolls of Ektachrome. Frankly, I haven't seen them in years, but my old slides turned up when we moved houses. These were scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V. I have upload significantly degraded pictures, since there is some commercial value to these photo's. The original scans are 110 MEGS each. All photo's copyright 2009 by John M. Cerra Update 1/25/2009. The Op Sail slides are on hold now. I am working on Dad's slides right now.

Operation Sail, July 4 1976, New York City

The US Bicentennial was celebrated in grand fashion in many ways. In ...

Updated: Jan 01, 2009 8:59am PST

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Tray 20 Circa 1973

Updated: Dec 30, 2008 7:46pm PST

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Nils Lofgren

I ran into Nils Lofgren and his wife in New York. I had just finished ...

Updated: Oct 11, 2008 5:25am PST

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CoalKickin

Updated: Oct 05, 2008 7:09pm PST

CoalKicken

Updated: Oct 05, 2008 7:08pm PST

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Long Beach Island 2008

Updated: Aug 24, 2008 5:27pm PST

Yanks-Padres 6/19/2008 Joba, Arod, Jeter, Mo! : Thursday June 19, 2008 was a gift of a baseball day. Sunny, 75, excellent seats (thanks Pat Niro) and a gem of baseball game as the Yankees beat the Padres 2-1. Joba Chamberlain started and gave up one run on a seeing eye, way behind the pitch slicing ground rule double by Tony Clarke. Joe Girardi pulled Joba at exactly 100 pitches, one batter short of being the winning pitcher. Veras to Farnsworth to Mo. It was Hall of Fame Day, as we saw Jeter, Arod, Mo, and I'm forecasting Jorge and Joba. It just doesn't get better than this. Check back every few days as I add shots.

Yanks-Padres 6/19/2008 Joba, Arod, Jeter, Mo!

Thursday June 19, 2008 was a gift of a baseball day. Sunny, 75, excel ...

Updated: Jun 25, 2008 8:04pm PST

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NJ AAU Karate Tournament

Updated: Apr 12, 2008 7:31pm PST

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Dad's Slides Tray 1 - Where were you in '52?

These are slides from Dad's Tray #1. If you ever saw my father puttin ...

Updated: Jan 01, 2008 7:57pm PST

Chuck Berry 9/15/2007 Nomahegan Park, Cranford NJ : Once a year, the county pays for a Music Fest. This year, they got ol' Johnny B. Goode himself, who played his guitar like ringing a bell, and he looked like he should:) All summer long, I waited for this concert. Armed with a new camera and lens (Nikon D200 and an 18mm-200mm VR lens), I would shoot "masterpieces" of this legend. A funny thing happened on the way to the concert. Three weeks prior, I had an accident at the beach, dislocating my shoulder, and tearing my biceps tendon and rotator cuff. I could not handle the camera with my right hand. Nor could I be in the middle of the crowd. So, in the back of the crowd, I would lift this heavy monster over my head, aim blindly, and hit the multiple exposure button. I got less than 5% keepers, but I got something. I apologize that the photo quality. These are cropped to about 10% of the original file. But I got them:) Normally, Chuck Berry travels without a band. The promoter hires a band that is capable of playing the 3 chord, 12 bar music that Berry wrote. Over the years, a lot of up and coming bands, such as Springsteen & The E Street Band, backed him. The original plan, as I understand it, was for The Smithereens, another band on the bill to back him. But Berry brought his St. Louis based band with him, which include a son and daughter.

Chuck Berry 9/15/2007 Nomahegan Park, Cranford NJ

Once a year, the county pays for a Music Fest. This year, they got ol ...

Updated: Oct 20, 2007 7:14am PST

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The Wedding of Emma and Peter

OK, this is just a tease. I have hundreds of photos from the rehearsa ...

Updated: Oct 14, 2007 7:17pm PST

Yankees vs Devil Rays 2nd Game 7/21/2007 : This game was a blow-out. I think the Yanks won 19-7. It was a make up of an April rainout. These are the first photo's with my new D200. What a camera! The seats were much better, these are full frame, no crop shots. But the lighting was a bit more challenging, since it was a 7:00 PM game. My take away? My 300mm F 4.0 Nikkor isn't fast enough for pro caliber shooting at night games. This is ISO 800, 1/320 second at F4. Not fast enough to stop the blur of a batters hands.

Yankees vs Devil Rays 2nd Game 7/21/2007

This game was a blow-out. I think the Yanks won 19-7. It was a make ...

Updated: Sep 10, 2007 6:58pm PST

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The August 1970 wedding of Ellen and Tim

Updated: Aug 25, 2007 1:36pm PST

Phil Rizzuto HOF 1917-2007 RIP : Rest in Peace you cannolli gobbling huckleberry. Listening or watching to a Yankee game has never been the same. Thanks for helping make me a fan.

Phil Rizzuto HOF 1917-2007 RIP

Rest in Peace you cannolli gobbling huckleberry. Listening or watchin ...

Updated: Aug 14, 2007 8:19pm PST

Hawks at Roselle Golf Club : For the past three years, I have been trying to get pictures of the 2 Hawks that live on the course. They have frustrated me to no end, flying around when I don't have a camera and staying away when I did. But today, they agreed to pose for me. Actually, there are two types of shots here. The first are of one hawk on the fairway. I woefully underexposed these shots. I got too excited, cranked the shutter up to 1/1000 of a second, and never increased the ISO, and ignored the warnings. That I have any usable images is a testimony ot Nikon's Capture software. Later on. I went back and found the pair in a tree. I probably shot 40 photo's...they never moved. Maybe in more rural areas you can do this...but I live just 15 miles outside of New York City. According to someone who runs a website that features Hawks in NYC, these are fledgings. If I get the info correct from numerous websites, they would have been born this past May 2007. If you can add anything, please leave a comment. All photo's copyright 2007 by John M. Cerra

Hawks at Roselle Golf Club

For the past three years, I have been trying to get pictures of the 2 ...

Updated: Jul 16, 2007 5:38pm PST

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Karate World Black Belt Test May 12 2007

Photo will be added over the next few weeks. It was an excellent test ...

Updated: Jun 30, 2007 6:09pm PST

Yankees-Bosox 4/29/2007 : Sadly, the Yanks lose to the Bosox. More later.

Yankees-Bosox 4/29/2007

Sadly, the Yanks lose to the Bosox. More later.

Updated: May 09, 2007 5:19pm PST

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BarbG

Updated: Apr 28, 2007 6:24pm PST

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For the Family Only

Updated: Mar 18, 2007 6:51am PST

Free Form Gallery : Pictures that have no common theme.

Free Form Gallery

Pictures that have no common theme.

Updated: Feb 17, 2007 7:53pm PST

Spirit Night :

Spirit Night

Updated: Feb 07, 2007 7:42pm PST

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Karate World - Various Shots

This is a collection of shots that I have taken at Karate World. I sta ...

Updated: Jan 28, 2007 6:44pm PST

Yankee Baseball and Yankee Stadium : I shot all of these photo's on two days, Sunday August 13 and Thursday August 17, 2006. All of the game shots are from the same seats in section 507, which is the mezzanine level, down the first base line, near the foul pole. I plan on shooting the stadium a lot, before the heresy of a "new" Yankee Stadium us upon us in 2009.

Yankee Baseball and Yankee Stadium

I shot all of these photo's on two days, Sunday August 13 and Thursday ...

Updated: Jan 28, 2007 5:55pm PST

Yankees - Tigers ALDS Thursday Oct 5 : Thursday October 5, 2006 at Yankee Stadium. A game scheduled for Wednesday, October 4, but controversially rained out. (They never started the game, and kept the crowd there until 10:10. ESPN reported the game was cancelled at 9:30 PM.) Jason Verlander, the flame throwing rookie righty, killed the righties in the Yankee lineup, but struggled with the lefties. Mike Mussina gave up 4 runs is a very good effort, Marcus Thames probably having his best day as a pro, pretty much killing Mussina. Don't let them kid you, post season baseball belongs in the day, not at night.

Yankees - Tigers ALDS Thursday Oct 5

Thursday October 5, 2006 at Yankee Stadium. A game scheduled for Wedn ...

Updated: Dec 06, 2006 8:02pm PST

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Roselle Golf Club 2006

Updated: Oct 23, 2006 5:38pm PST

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Mike and Sherryl's Wedding June 1977

I am slowly getting up the slides that my Dad took of Mike and Sherryl ...

Updated: Oct 01, 2006 7:35pm PST

Long Beach Island August 2006 : Long Beach Island, NJ If you don't already know about it...

Long Beach Island August 2006

Long Beach Island, NJ If you don't already know about it...

Updated: Aug 27, 2006 6:01pm PST

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Josefa's and Rocky's wedding

June 1976 in Carbondale PA. As of July 1, 2006 all of my shots and my ...

Updated: Jun 24, 2006 9:47am PST

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Westfield Girls Softball: Colorado Rockies

Updated: May 06, 2006 7:22pm PST

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Black Belt Test 3/25/2006 with Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee

Karate World, Kenilworth NJ Blackbelt test on 3/25/2006 with Grandmast ...

Updated: Apr 14, 2006 3:48pm PST

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Wedding of Michael Cerra and Karen Nowicki

The Wedding of Michael Cerra and Karen Nowicki on January 15, 2006

Updated: Feb 10, 2006 7:07pm PST

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Roselle Golf Club Photos

Updated: Jan 10, 2006 8:42pm PST

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Karate World April 2005 Black Belt Test

All photos copyright 2006 by John M. Cerra. These photos cannot be pu ...

Updated: Jan 07, 2006 6:20am PST

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