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Photographer Tom Gralish’s visual exploration of our region

A junior mechanical engineering major at Drexel University, Sarac says other drivers and pedestrians always wave to him as he rides from his Oaklyn, N.J. home to University City and Center City. “People’s reaction is just killing it. People love it,” he says. Plus, he adds, the bunny helmet cover “helps with the noise.”
Since 1998, a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color:












August 7, 2023: Saying neither one was like Tom Sawyer, who tricked his friend Ben Rogers into finishing painting a fence in the Mark Twain novel, Woodrow Smith and Judith Pardun paint her fence together along busy Nicholson Road in Audubon, N.J. Both were glad they weren’t doing it during last month’s heat
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