A representative photo of the times. A pay phone that says it works, but obviously does not. I remember these ubiquitous phone boots all over, it was the only way to call your office or spouse when you were on the road. Calling cards, collect calls, all a thing of the past.

So I don’t have much time these days to take photos, so I just zip around between random errands to local areas before I have to either get home to fix dinner or get to a work call. These photos are from both decayed facilities and what was slated for demolition and redevelopment, the old Sevelle’s Auto Body in Westfield, NJ. As usual, all with the Olympus EM1.2 and the 12-40/2.8

Driving by the Cranford Canoe club one afternoon in late November and the shapes of the canoes were calling to me while the leaves were still somewhat alive and fresh fallen. I have had very good results at this local club when they store the canoes for the winter season. This time, it had rained quite a bit and there was an upturned boat with leaves that was pretty neat with the super clear water and leaves that had fallen to the bottom of the water waiting to decompose. I’ll have to come back when there is some snow. All

So you have 5 minutes between running to get presents for the dog and cat and hurrying home to make baked goods for the holidays. AND you forgot your camera. But it snowed 2” and was pretty. But now it really mostly melted so there’s only a tiny bit left. So I pulled out my trusty iPhone and found a few photos. The first one from a local industrial building. The address is 544, LOL. I thought the echos of the numbers between the door front and the mailbox was pretty neat, as was the orange color. Maybe not a

One more image from my work on the road paving equipment a few weeks ago. This a wonderful red chain with a black, shadowed background. Nothing earth shattering. I kind of wished I had worked this subject a bit more, as there may have been a few more compositions……but alas, it’s long gone, off to another street Olympus EM-1 12-40/2.8

This concrete hut sits on Diamond Hill Road in Scotch Plains NJ right beside a little creek. If you pull over on the busy road, the plaque says something about this being a creek water level monitoring station. It’s pretty beat up these days with multiple layers of paint, graffiti, etc and seemed like a good subject if I was willing to risk a little to dash across the busy 2-lane road. The green is a nice color and there is nice pink graffiti in the background on the 2nd photo. I should go back and like this, make sure

This is really an unusual photo and one that not everyone likes. Why? I think because they figure out what it is pretty quickly, and they don’t like it. I found this bounty of red and yellow at the bottom of a local campground/city park trash can. It is of course, a bunch of McDonald’s trash. But at least it didn’t end up on the ground, but where it belonged after use. The round symmetry and the red forms are really great to me. I hope you like it. Olympus EM1.2 12j-40/2.8…….as usual

More portraits of the Asphalt paving machines outside my house a few weeks ago. The warning symbol was on the huge machine that mills the street, grinding off the top layer of asphalt before it gets repaved. The third photo I thought very cool, which is the hub of one of those big rolling machines that flattens the asphalt.