January 2023

Purple and Pink

Abstract, iPhone /

Walked around the town of Westfield on a nice cloudy day in mid-January hunting for photos of architectural items. It was a Saturday, so things were not super crazy and busy. Walked down Prospect St and this was painted on the side of a building off Prospect Street in an alley. There are two windows separated by about 10 ft, with a big purple wall all over the whole building. I took these two with my iPhone 14Pro, but I need to come back and do a swing-lens film shot on a similarly grey day. The colors are wonderful. Pink […]

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The Steel Stacks – trip 1

Micro Four-Thirds /

Went to the old Bethlehem steel plant in PA with the Essex County club on Jan 2, 2023 and was introduced to this very cool place. It’s an old steel mill, the one that essentially supplied the steel that built much of the WW2 ships and cities throughout the Northeastern US. Once had tens of thousands of people working on a huge campus. It’s decline started in the early 70’s when the lost the bid for the steel for the World Trade Center. Much of the site has been torn down, but what remains are four gigantic blast furnaces. The

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A Foggy Day

Film - Kodak & Other, Micro Four-Thirds, Panorama /

It’s 12/31/22, New Year’s Eve, and I get up and I remark that the fog is real thick today, something VERY unusual here in North-Central New Jersey. It requires a cold front pushing ocean moisture up on top of us and some cool air leaking in to condense the copious amounts of water vapor in the air into fog. My wife says “You should go take photos of this”. I thought Yes, I should, because it will be gone in a flash. Well it wasn’t gone. It lasted many hours and I wish I had gone an hour or two

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