Sunset

Woodbury, Connecticut

Toplands Farm

Roxbury, Connecticut

For a variety of reasons I find myself driving over Painter Hill several times, at least, each month, but one of the consolations is the ever-changing view north across this enormous hay field. The domed shape is, I suspect, a classic drumlin, though it's one of the larger and flatter ones around here. The view from the narrow road is never the same twice.

READING CO UNFAIR TO HOMEOWNERS

Wadesville, Pennsylvania

I've never been much convinced that there's a specific, definitive, best shot of a subject. For that matter, I don't think much of the idea of a definitive print. If I return to a negative done twenty years ago, I think it would be ridiculous to attempt to print it exactly as I did back then (if the materials are even available). I make better prints now than I did twenty, or ten, or thirty, years ago, and the picture, if it's worth printing again, deserves the best I can do now. Seems to me.

I'm also not sure I should have to choose which of these I like better. The firehouse is almost the only building still standing in Wadesville, which is being eaten away by a coal strip mine, owned as you might guess, by the Reading Coal Company. I also posted about this a while ago, but it took me till now to catch up with the big camera negatives.

Wadesville, Pennsylvania

Loading Dock

Waterbury, Connecticut

This is in the same complex as the Gate and Benrus shots, just a block from from Gabe's.

GABE'S UNITED TYRE

Waterbury, Connecticut

Reserved Parking

Waterbury, Connecticut

Right across the street from the Benrus entryway.

BENRUS WATCH COMPANY

Waterbury, Connecticut

The same factory complex as yesterday's "gate" picture. I've lived in this area since the mid-seventies and I don't think this large complex has been occupied in all that time.

GATE

Waterbury, Connecticut

Back for a while to some color work from this past fall.

Another Derelict

Deer Lake, Pennsylvania

I've done a lot of research to locate existing and derelict drive-in theaters around the country, but sometimes I just trip over something on my way somewhere else. This turned up on my way to the eastern Pennsylvania coal country.

Cornfield, II

Ansonia, Pennsylvania

These two cornfields are an example of a funny phenomenon I run into from time to time. I can go quite a distance without finding anything that inspires me to set up one of the big cameras, but when I do find subjects that say "take my picture," there often seem to be several in a cluster. Even stranger, when I've found something to shoot, I've learned to turn around and look exactly the other way. It's surprising how often something is there, too. This picture was made by picking up the tripod after the picture in yesterday's post, and carrying it across the narrow paved road to make a picture facing west instead of east.