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Pleasure Beach was once a very popular summer getaway on the Connecticut Shoreline. Unfortunately, after the bridge connecting the town to the mainland was burned down the inhabitants had to evacuate. Since then the town has deteriorated to what you see here. It has become a ghost town.

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Steve Depino stevedepino.com
Jeff Maf maflifepro.com

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  • Jeremy White plus 1 year ago
    Oh dammmn! Awesome!
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Buddy!
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  • Dell 1 year ago
    Excellent. It's amazing this made me feel empathetic for a place. I smell a short doc in the works for Pleasure Beach.
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Anything is possible! It's unfortunate but they are tearing the place down. Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate it.
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  • Peter Vandall plus 1 year ago
    Jeff great job on this! What camera did you use for this?
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thanks. I used both a Canon 7D and a Canon 5D MK II.
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  • Paul McNerney 1 year ago
    Amazing!!! What a sad stupid story...rebuild the bridge?? anyway I could go on, your film evokes the sounds of the past, laughing, quiet, families....
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Paul! I really appreciate it!
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  • Jack 1 year ago
    Sehr sehr schön!
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  • Matt Rodgers plus 1 year ago
    dolly dolly dolly! lol .. looked very nice... i would have loved to see some slow camera moves
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Matt! Got to work with the equipment I have. Lol. Thanks for the kind words!
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  • Paul Houston 1 year ago
    glad I found this!! great story.
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Paul! I appreciate it!
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  • MARZ plus 1 year ago
    nothin like the smell of dolly in the mornin'
    mmmmm
    so crunchy
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    :)
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  • Mark Rigler plus 1 year ago
    wow
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thanks!
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  • Alladdin plus 1 year ago
    fantastic!
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Thank you! I appreciate it.
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  • Evan Szuch 1 year ago
    been there a bunch of times great play too bad its gone
  • JeffMaf plus 1 year ago
    Sure is. Thanks for the comment!
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  • Adam Georgiou 11 months ago
    Great work, there's nothing better than visually seeing somewhere like this.

    If you're interested I did a short film on an old pottery factory called Spode near where I live. It only closed 2 years ago.

    vimeo.com/11482064
  • JeffMaf plus 11 months ago
    Thanks I appreciate it!! I will check out your film!
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  • Kyle Culver plus 11 months ago
    Excellent choice of music. It definitely drives the emotions higher. What is it by the way? Seeing the park bench on the shore line there really hit me. Every time I see park benches next to big bodies of water I think of an old couple sitting there, as they would the same time every other day. A certain sense of love and calmness. With this setting, it seems sad and almost like something happened to the old couple. But, like you said, they could have just left the place like everybody else did. :)

    Great piece of work man. Keep it up.
  • JeffMaf plus 9 months ago
    Thanks Kyle! I appreciate the kind words!
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  • Agnieszka Gonczarek 10 months ago
    A ghost town, indeed! Have never seen such place. Beautifully captured!
  • JeffMaf plus 9 months ago
    Thank you for the kind comments!
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  • Jimwww 10 months ago
    Very nice camera work. I would have used either a blue or tobacco grad filter to give some life to the sky. I don't like the ferry horizon being tilted. Nice music - really fits the lost feeling.
  • JeffMaf plus 9 months ago
    Agreed! Thanks for the comments!
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  • David HJ. Lindberg plus 9 months ago
    Beautiful in some wicked way!
  • JeffMaf plus 9 months ago
    Thanks David!
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