Williamsburg Brooklyn street scene. This interesting pattern was on a scissor lift that was being used at a construction site on the street. Odd that someone would go to such effort to paint it in these colors, but I guess they liked it. You can see the drips where they had been painting. I think this was at a street mural, if i remember right.
Was in Madison GA for an event in mid-May when we stopped by this old mill which has a wedding venue option. Was able to wonder around for 5 min before my family complained and wanted to go. Had a few minutes to take these two photos
Rolleiflex shot of a now For Sale ice cream location. Used to be Frosty Freeze in Garwood for 20-30 years, then closed and renamed somewhere around the pandemic. Now FS again. This taken in late June, now in late July the For Lease is gone. This taken with my Rolleiflex, but needed extensive Ps work to correct perspective and clean up the area around the structure.
Behind Young Paint in Fanwood, NJ, there sits an old shed. Probably used by that business for storage. Young Paint was a great, local paint store with a bunch of very knowledgeable guys who would spend the time to work with you to get the right paint or varnish for your needs. Founded in 1957 it was a fixture of the community. I don’t know what actually happened, but I imagine it succumbed to the big box Lowes and Home Depot like so many neighboord hardware or paint stores. Regardless of the service, the big paint companies don’t want to
Quick shot of a dandelion plant trying to take over a now-abandoned garage. Sevelle’s Auto Garage, sold by the family, now slated for a pocket park and multi-family housing, just like so many old businesses around here. The days of all these gritty businesses clustered around the train lines on North and South Ave in Westfield and Garwood is numbered. Nobody wants large industrial businesses, of course. Stuff like metal bending, textile mills, ets. The time for that is LONG gone. Now the commercial businesses are being scooped up by landlords who have decided that rather than have an Auto
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Sprocket photos from Atlanta. This is 35mm, Double XX film in my Lomo LC-A 120. I did make the mistake of not setting the focus before the shot, which I find is the most irritating aspect of this camera. Because it’s so much of a Point-and-Shoot camera……and it’s viewfinder camera, i.e. no rangefinder, it’s very easy to forget to focus. What I need to do is develop a better routine when shooting these sorts of cameras, i.e. those with no focusing aid. With a rangefinder patch or an SLR’s focusing screen, it’s super-intuitive to remember to focus, or something is
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Went outside to see a lovely bush of Pink/Orange miniature rose bush that I have. It just started blooming last week and probably has 100 blooms on it. I took a few “normal” rose shots of the pretty flowers but wanted something different and I did not have a lot of time. So I took my iPhone and shot up at the sky from underneath the roses. It was too dark, of course, with the iPhone. And I just didn’t have the time to run back inside and get my “real” camera and take what I had envisioned. So I
Similar to the color photos, there are also neat Black-and-White photos in the same Back Bay and Beacon Hill areas. I loved the #67 squat, wide doors. The second photo is a bit odd. On one multi-million $$ townhouse 1/2 up a hill in Beacon Hill, there were 6 heating oil spouts, one for each unit, I guess. The last one is of that increasingly rare sight, phone booths. It’s over just east of the Boston Public Garden in front of a random building. I loved the symmetry.
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During Marathon weekend, spent time walking from Back Bay to Beacon Hill. The alleys in Boston are rich sources of urban forms and patterns, in my opinion. Lots of neat stuff back there. In Beacon Hill, the colored door and upscale house fonts are also nice. I loved the neat vine growing on this $7-9M townhouse. Ditto the wonderful yellow door. The last one is from an Alley. I have no idea where this goes. The red circle in the 3rd photo is the ubiquitous fire alarm on so many Boston buildings.
This year, my favorite photo venues have definitely been urban areas. I’d love to go in more run-down areas, but these days, safety is a real concern and I almost always photograph alone, so those two things don’t go together. An upper-middle-aged white guy driving a nice car in a run-down, urban neighborhood with a camera. That just a recipe for the small chance encounter that I don’t want to have. So I will wonder around nice, Northern NJ towns and take photos of what I see. The best stuff, as I’ve said elsewhere, is not the front of the
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One of my favorite photos from the two weeks that was in Apalachicola. I’m not sure why, but this white block building, long abandoned. No ceiling/roof. With an interior brick wall and plants growing on the inside and the outside really appealed to me. I loved the way that there are plants on both sides of the building as it is being reclaimed. I also love the contrasts of the white outside, the red brick, and the smatterings of green and black symmetrically framed.
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