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I love driving around early on a Sunday morning to hunt for subjects. There isn’t much traffic, and you see the results of the previous week. These photos were from such a morning near to my home in Westfield, NJ. The skeleton was hanging out behind a store, obviously having been used for a Halloween decoration. I loved both the more documentary-type photo as the more close-up version. While these photos are all Olympus EM-1 digital photos, it would probably have been great if I had taken my pinhole camera and got about 3-4” from the skeleton’s face. The other […]

Trash Cans So I’ve thought about this project, but it’s not an easy one. I think that during my travels, I will try to find interesting trash cans to photograph. The first photo is one of my favorites with the wonderful colors and circular symmetry. Most people don’t know what it is until they think a bit and some are disgusted. Some are interested. Some are…..well, just “It’s a trash can”. Yes, they’re right of course.

In the dead of winter, a lovely rain with no leaves on the trees can be taken advantage of in an urban environment. This was on New Years Day morning, so the streets and parking lots were empty and had lots of water. The clouds were interesting and the black backgrounds really accentuated the reflections.

Nothing Unique, but I do love to hunt around to find little geometric objects on the sides of buildings. This set of four is typical 1. Some sort of approval badges on a huge metal power pole.2. A telephone switch that someone decided needed to be the same color as the building, LOL3. A hidden light switch4. Number 20

. As lovely as the little village of Apalachicola, FL is, the edges continue to crumble and fail. There are glimmers of progress in this lovely little town, but the outskirts, and there aren’t many when you only have 2,000 people, are full of crumbling riverfront property. Yea, I know it’s the same old photogphers’ penchant for old stuff, but it’s still interesting.

Memories and remnants of a local dry cleaning plant, now closed after more than 100 years in business. Nobody wanted to take it over, so not it sits ready for “redevelopment”, which means an apartment building with ground-floor retail probably. I wish I could get inside, but that isn’t happening, far too much liability. The frosted windows are lovely, with their pressed-in starburst patterns. Obviously this was done when the glass was hot, a long forgotten process, probably. The subtle greens of the window stanchions was a lovely contrast with the glass. I loved the undefined, orange shape behind the