Popes

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

00588

Seymour, Connecticut

Gallery Opening

Torrington, Connecticut

We went to an opening this evening at  the Five Points Gallery, in center of Torrington, a major part of the urban renewal efforts that are going on there, with a particular eye to attracting the creative and arts communities. The gallery space is beautifully finished, though I found myself also looking out the north-facing windows, up Main Street.

Ground Level

Torrington, Connecticut

Near and Far

Washington, Connecticut

As always, if you click on a picture you'll get a better, larger view in a new window. Helpful in this case because the overall pattern of tiny details reads much better in the secondary view.

City/Country, II

Torrington, Connecticut

Washington, Connecticut

City/Country

Waterbury, Connecticut

Washington, Connecticut

Red Brick Walls

Waterbury, Connecticut

Gate

Torrington, Connecticut

This is Ridiculous

Woodbury, Connecticut

A few minutes after six this morning.

Walls and Stairs

Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Angles and Corners

Waterbury, Connecticut

Some sort of interesting visual affinity between these two, aside from being shot fifteen seconds apart, around a corner from each other.

A Presentation

On June 8 I'll be giving a presentation in Groveland, MA, at the Langley-Adams Library. It's based on my long term (since 2001) project photographing drive-in theaters across the United States. The program will run from 6-8 PM. There will be a short introduction to lay out the timeline of the drive-in theaters from 1933 to the present and explain a bit about the business model followed by the 300-plus theaters that are still successful. Next, a slide show with nearly 150 of the theaters, based on the selection and sequencing of the book design for the project, which is nearly complete. We'll have time at the end for a question and answer period.

Country Trees

Washington, Connecticut

Spring seems to be just about the only time of year I ever use a long lens. The compressed perspective on the emerging color of the trees is fascinating. I've been watching and studying this ever since I first got a 200mm lens for my Nikons back in 1974. For, I think, the fourth year now I'm doing these with the remarkably competent and reasonably priced Lumix 45-200 varifocal (roughly equivalent to 90-400 for FX/135 format). As always, click the pictures to get a larger and clearer view.

City Trees

Waterbury, Connecticut

For LEASE

Waterbury, Connecticut

ST. JOHN

Waterbury, Connecticut

Recliner

Torrington, Connecticut

Country Trees

Washington, Connecticut

City Trees

Waterbury, Connecticut

Along the Sidewalk

New Haven, Connecticut

Flushing Out the System

Waterbury, Connecticut

Spring chore for the public works department. You can see how dirty the mains are in the second shot. A worker said the first one had to run for an hour before clean water came through.

224

New Haven, Connecticut

Trees and the River

Washington, Connecticut

There's a cable suspension footbridge across the Shepaug River in the main section of Steep Rock Reservation. It makes a great viewpoint platform for shooting, as long as nobody else is walking on it. Everything about this spring blossoming season has been weird and unusual, except that as always, the spring season is beautiful.

Each month I download digital captures into sub-folders with about a thousand captures each. It's been a busy month so far. This is the thirteenth, and folder C is nearing 800 files.

Decorative Front Yard

New Haven, Connecticut

There is no Poop Fairy

Washington, Connecticut

It's not just the local post office having trouble with people leaving undesirable items in the wrong places.

Shop Windows

Torrington, Connecticut

The fascinating thing about shop windows is the ways that they change. It's not just that the displays are updated as often as the owners thing is needed to catch peoples' eyes. The reflections change with every variation in the light, every movement of cars or people, every change of season. The view is never the same twice.

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Nobody Will See Me If I Hide in these Dandelions

Woodbury, Connecticut

More Spring Trees

Washington, Connecticut

Pink Building and Big Brother

New Haven, Connecticut

Alleyways

Torrington, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

More Country Trees

Washington, Connecticut

From a part of Steep Rock Reservation again, spring still a month or more behind schedule. But it hit 90°F today and all the flowering trees may come out at once over the next couple of days.

Country Trees

Washington, Connecticut

SHEN YUN

Naugatuck, Connecticut