From the monthly archives: November 2009
Connecticut will grow on you quick, and the community events geared at kids are too cute for words. Delighted and more than keen to just touch a truck, a little boy leaps enthusiastically into rear of a fire truck. His father totally approved.
Strange mornin’. Woke up and the roof was half-near gone. Dun know whut happened, dun really remember nothin. In fact, the whole damn building was ’bout to implode. I wasn’t worried er nothing. It was weird ’cause I was very calm. What goes up, must come down. Or that’s what physics tells us. It was [...]
Getting around this four-story building, you secretly needed a death wish. There’s a good reason it was leveled in the coming years. The main staircase had collapsed, the roof exhibited a double scallop, the floors were giving into one another, the wiring was exposed, and the Earth was fusing with the exoskeleton. The only entryway [...]
Over the next several days, I will be posting much of my film work that has kind of been stuffed in a corner for quite some time. This is brought on by the tragic death of eight of my most favorite 16×20 final fiber prints. Andto make matters worse, I have pretty much zero access [...]
Kingston is a cool city because you kind of feel like you’re traveling back in time. It’s rundown, and sure that’s sad, but it makes for good pictures.
Night grew close; we were only there for about 45 minutes of an autumn’s dusk night. Chris was once again disappointed that all the nozzles to the fire hoses had been snatched, probably sold off to whomever. I do intend on spending more time in this location before it is too late. A flashlight would [...]
Calmly bobbing in the D&H Canal, anchored to the shore of a city that once used to be the capital of New York State, the Floating Hospital, slowly but surely, is dismantled piece by piece. Alongside the massive 104-foot, 4-deck boat is a scrap yard where the structure has begun to meet its inevitable fate. [...]
Ahh, what a delightful weekend in Kingston it was. Chris and I bottled our first batch of beer – a porter – that is roughly 1-2 weeks away to being delicious (the anxiety is unbearable). As if that wasn’t enough, down the road from his apartment is a giant, decommissioned hospital boat appropriately dubbed “The [...]
All along Queen Street West, we really could get a feel for the types of characters that live in Toronto. It was like any city – diverse, slightly cleaner than the norm, galleries galore and fashionable, but with this toned down ebb and flow in the daily grind. It was this odd combination that was [...]
Our last full day of traveling was spent in Venice. Not gonna lie, I was dead exhausted at this point – roughly 100 miles in 15 days later is a bit more than my usual activity level due to the desk job – that I was slightly apathetic to photo-taking. Not complaining, I promise! Anyhow, [...]
It was a terribly gloomy day at the Chester Fair. Sounds of the countryside echoed throughout the grounds – ducks quacking, sheep baa-ing, chickens squawking, you name it. There was even a camel eating sweaters. Then I spotted these colorful little gems and life was good.
Hundreds and hundreds of birds are beginning their migration South for the Winter. I’ve spotted gigantic flocks almost everyday for the past several weeks. Strange that many are to be found on the power lines right in front of my house. How can I resist? About two hundred birds gather during the late morning hours, [...]
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