Photo Journal: July 2025

We started July with a hurricane-like storm system that downed trees and power lines across the state, only to be followed by fireworks & cookouts days later. America's Independence Day was set to a backdrop of classic cars, live music and Narragansett Bay.
The humid haze of summer continued on and we found ourselves on a day-trip to Mystic Aquarium to look at jellyfish and giant Japanese Spider Crabs.
One of my favorite photos, a composite, is of a plane flying into T.F. Green, illuminated by a burst of heat lightning in a cloud hanging over the bay. It is so bright, luckily captured down to the millisecond, that it appears to be sunrise through the clouds, but it is actually midnight against pitch black skies.
The month was rounded out with a long-overdue ride through woods and farmland on a humid, ninety-degree day.
Those are the public highlights; not to discredit the rest of the moments at play & the ones I won’t share out of the privacy of my family. Between that, and in terms of the “writing department” lately - it’s admittedly lacking. Time is moving at a mile-a-minute and inspiration hasn’t knocked much here. But I’ll continue to shoot day-to-day, and I’ll continue to let the photos do most of the talking.
Onto August.
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Zack Deus is a freelance creative director, designer + photographer based in Rhode Island.