Working Pictures

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Over the weekend Mike Johnston posted one of my pictures at his blog, The Online Photographer. A couple people asked about the shot because they couldn't find it anywhere on my web site. So, a little background.

The picture was made in 2003 and originally printed in Pt/Pd, shortly after it was made. Then in 2006 when we acquired a high-end digital printer I selected it as one of ten shots to make a demonstration portfolio of digital prints from negatives originally intended for platinum. The portfolio also had a theme of something like "orphan pictures." I generally work in series or projects. But even when traveling to shoot, say, drive-in theaters, I don't pass up any interesting subject. So I decided to group a set of pictures that weren't part of any series into this little folio. For some reason, I never got around to making a web version, so I corrected that this morning. Anyone interested can link to it here.

Big Yellow Machine

Washington, Connecticut

It's a grader, parked next to an unpaved road that leads from the state highway to a fancy private school. The unpaved road is a shortcut for many, and so is traveled twice daily by a convoy of BMWs, Volvos, and monster SUVs taking kids to and from. With all this rain, maybe someone decided it was easier to leave it there to grade the road again tomorrow, than take it back to the municipal garage.