The third day of the workshop took us to the Maine State Capitol in Augusta. We were fortunate to be given access to most of the building, including the House and Senate chambers, since the legislature was not in session. Here I photographed the building with a formal approach, which felt appropriate for this environment.
I am very pleased to announce that my “Forgotten Places: North Dakota” exhibit is being moved to the Redbrick Gallery in Martinsburg after a very successful showing at the Delaplaine Center in Frederick, MD. I am especially happy that those of you who live in the Panhandle region who have followed my adventures with this project but were unable to get down to Frederick will have an opportunity to see the exhibit.
I am happy to be reprinting three of the exhibit prints that sold out of the Delaplaine Gallery so the exhibit will be complete. I also will have available copies of the book of images, Special Edition Print Folios, and some smaller individual prints.
The exhibit will open with a reception at the gallery, 404 West King Street on Saturday, October 22 from 4-7pm and will run through November 19.
The second day of the Spirit of Structure workshop in August, we went to the Olson House in Cushing, Maine.
This was a return visit after photographing there during the 2009 Extraordinary Images in Ordinary Places workshop, also led by Tillman Crane. That the 2009 outing was successful I think indicated by the fact that I was able to put together a small book of the images: The Olson House: Photographs July, 2009. Up to now, I have only printed proof copies but I hope to release it soon. The question is, should I update it with some new images from the 2011 workshop.
I was interested to see if I could find new images on the return visit. I think I succeeded in this, although I feel that it would be hard to identify these new images as having been done two years after the first visit. Is this consistency or lack of growth? Not sure.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly two months already since I have been back from my New England travels. It’s been very hectic since I got back.
But I can finally post a few images from the Spirit of Structure workshop I took with Tillman Crane at the Maine Media Workshops.
On the first day of the workshop we went to a closed factory in Rockland, Maine. It was a mostly empty building, but there were a few artifacts left. Lighting was very nice, being 100% from the windows.
Yesterday was such a beautiful day I couldn’t stand not getting out. So I drove down to Great Falls for a bit of a walk and possible photo opportunities.
I managed to catch a canal boat as it came through the lock at the Great Falls Tavern. They are offering rides on the canal, with the mules pulling the boat and maneuvering the boat through the lock.
My solo exhibit at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in Frederick is up! The exhibit is in the “Side Gallery” on the main level. It will be on view starting tomorrow through September 24.
The reception will be Saturday, September 3 from 3-5pm. Join me to celebrate the exhibit of my project from last year that involved traveling twice to North Dakota to photograph abandoned farms and town.
I am home now from my trip north. It was enjoyable but as always, I am glad to be home again.
While I was in the Boston area, I took a short side trip to Cape Cod, where I visited with my Aunt Ruth, who is 103 years young (!) and my cousin Frank (her son).
While I was there I went to a gallery presentation by my cousin’s wife, Stephanie, who is a very talented photographer. Stephanie has created a wonderful body of work while “roughing it” in the dune shacks out by Provincetown. Here is a link to the gallery, which will show some of her images.
I was only on the Cape for a little over 24 hours, so I did not get much chance to photograph. However, I could not resist stopping at one of my favorite spots, the bridge that carries Route 28 over the Herring River in Harwichport. I am a sucker for a scene with a rowboat anchored in a quiet spot.
Two weeks ago I took off for points north, stopping in the Boston area for a week visiting a friend with a side trip to Cape Cod to visit my aunt and cousin. Then I continued to Rockport, Maine for a workshop at the Maine Media Workshops.
While staying in Braintree, my friend Allen and I took the commuter boat from Quincy into downtown Boston for a walk around town and a few photographs.
On my recent trip to southern West Virginia, I followed a back road that brought me a short distance over the state line into Virginia to the town of Pocahontas, Virginia.
Pocahontas #1 was the site of the original coal mine that, in 1883, was the start of the two state coal boom of the region and the area that includes parts of Virginia and West Virginia is still known as the Pocahontas Coalfield or the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield. (Not to be confused with Pocahontas County in West Virginia.)
From it’s boom days population, the town of Pocahontas is now down to a little over 400 people.
Since Pocahontas was a side trip, I didn’t stay too long but here are three images from there.
In addition to the beautiful period furniture, the decor of the Adam Stephen House is nicely seasoned with a number of artifacts that relate to the life of the Martinsburg founder.
200 years ago a physician frequently had to be pharmacist as well, so maintained the tools to refined what medicines were available at the time.
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Light, Shadow, Form, and Texture 
