A Quick Update

My Blog updates have been a little less frequent than I would like.  I have been fairly busy shooting recently and just returned home from a week in the Smoky Mountains.    Rather than heading straight home I took a 3 hour detour and spent a day at Old Car City.  I’ll post more on both trips soon.  

Industrial

          

Getting to this point was easy, going further would have been foolish.   I visited this site a couple months ago, the plant in the background looked appealing, but with large sections of the cat walk missing this was not the way to go.  

Odd Numbers

While waiting for spring, I’m digging into the archives for some material to share.  This shot was taken a couple of years ago in Cape May with my friend Tony Sweet.  Tony teaches in Cape May each year and when his busy schedule permits, he invites friends to join him for a couple of days of pre-workshop fun.   

I'm Ready for Spring!!

Stepping Back in Time

This quaint little place is called Melvin’s.   Actually that’s just part of the name, but for me Melvin’s works best to describe the location.   The place is part junk yard, part car collection and of course a repair shop.  I shot this on my second visit to Melvin’s last fall.  Unfortunately this great location is not close to home, but you can be sure I’ll stop and visit whenever possible.  

Something Different

During my recent trip to St. Albans my friend Denise Silva was working on some self-portraits.  Considering this was  a former asylum, I was striving for a look that might fit a former resident in distress.  

Something Simple

A few weeks ago I visited St. Albans in Radford, Virginia.  The former school and asylum is now undergoing some modest redevelopment, but is still open for ghost tours and occasional photo tours.  Much of the facility I found lacking because there was just not enough decay.  But this is a personal bias and I suspect others might find this a fantastic location.  One high point was when I visited the basement and found this small cell,  I felt like I hit the jackpot.  The texture of the peeling paint is some of the best I have ever seen.