NEW PRESTON, CONNECTICUT – I’ve decided to photograph all of the churches in Litchfield County, Connecticut, very much working in the shadow of Walker Evans. Â The approach is frontal. Â You can see a similar esthetic in the “Small Town” images on my landscape gallery, and for that matter in 30 Rock taken on November 6. Â This is one of two Congregational churches in New Preston that serve the same parish (the other is the Stone Church). Captured at sunrise.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We had a lovely, clear late fall day today – unseasonably warm. Â This another installment in a long-term project: Â shooting iconic places. Â The challenge is to get past trite. Â This image is shot in infrared, which I use often in Manhattan. Â The image of 30 Rock may not be my best image of the day. Â One of the most difficult challenges in posting every day is self-editing under time pressure. Â It’s easy enough to find the three best, or the many non-keepers. Â But the final choice is difficult because it’s hard to sort out what the criteria are. Â For example, is there a narrative? Â Is it a problem to have churches on three consecutive days. Â Anyway, here’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – More work on icons, in this case the Chrysler Building at night. Â It turns out that this is a little early in the winter to shoot Manhattan at night. Â It looks best after the end of daylight savings time – it gets dark an hour earlier – so people are in their offices with their lights on.
I have a large ongoing project working with the problems of photographing iconic places. Â Go to Google Earth – this spot in Manhattan has hundreds of blue squares – images uploaded by Google Earth users. Â Sometimes point of view helps. Â I have better and worse days – the image a day discipline has its downsides.
DRAIN, OREGON – We left the Oregon coast early, driving back up the Umpqua River. Â The light was beautiful at about 10:00 so I stopped and photographed. Â Another small town: Â Drain, Oregon. Â No kidding on the name. Â Dale Allyn informed me that his dad was at one point the oldest living resident of Drain; that Drain, Oregon is the only town named Drain in North America; and that it’s named after Charles and Anna Drain, not the lowest point in a bathtub.
This is the Pacific Gateway Medical Clinic.
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Friday October 23, 2009
GOLD BEACH, OREGON – We spent October 23 here in Gold Beach, Oregon. The weather was terrible; the visibility on the beach was near zero. I spent a wet day in town taming infrared images of buildings. Â This is part of a long-term project that i’m working on: small Western towns photographed in the shadow of Edward Weston; the use of infrared technique creates as sense of abstraction and other worldliness.
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Thursday October 22, 2009
BANDON BEACH, OREGON – Once again on the beach at Bandon. Â This time at sunrise.
