Lost Highway
Focal Length: 18mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/4000 | ISO: 1000 | Post: CS4
A little less than 1.5 miles of an empty four lane freeway spur off of I-89 spans from South Burlington into Burlington. The project was abandoned in the 1980’s due to funding and a few other programs that weren’t in the right place at the right time, deadlines were missed and eventually ideas shifted. Now this stretch of asphalt lies dormant and untouched, plants have begun to stake claim in cracks resulting from the ground shifting over the years. Jersey barriers adorned with colorful spraypaint block off the ends and a portion at the intersection of Industrial Ave. and Pine Streets has been turned into a makeshift parking lot for nearby businesses. It is a wasteland, an eerie graveyard of a public works project gone awry, a monument of what could have been. It’s also great place to add some miles to the shoes and snap a few rounds with the cam.
Barrett’s Trucking
Focal Length: 18mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/500 | ISO: 1000 | Post: CS4
While wandering Flynn Avenue, I walked into a truck yard with a few luscious industrial structures in various states of decay. This is the kind of stuff that makes me beam with delight upon discovery, worn colors and rough textures in areas that typically display bright “No Tresspassing” signs with chain-link fences and razorwire. More often than not, someone has already found a way in and I merely follow the tracks of those before me, camera in tow.
September Sky
Focal Length: 55mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/4000 | ISO: 1000 | Post: CS4
The clouds were the first thing I noticed when I relocated to the Green Mountain State of Vermont from California. NorCal has some clouds, sure and some fog too but neither can hold a candle to the utter awe and dynamic structure the billions of water droplets band together to create above us here in VT. I’m consistently blown away on an almost daily basis, there’s big fatty dark looming clouds, skinny streaky wispy clouds, clouds that look as if a rake had been dragged across the sky and mountainous clouds that billow into pillars that make Everest look like a dinky ‘ol pile of pebbles. I’ve come to make an effort to photograph exclusively on days offering some cloud cover, as opposed to my favored clear blue sky shooting on the San Francisco Streets. The clouds add additional dimension and character, ya dig?
Petrol Tanks
Focal Length: 35mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/1250 | ISO: 1000 | Post: CS4
I was able to wander down Flynn Avenue today and let my eyes lead my feet through the industrial wasteland. I was practically in heaven, a bevy of grit and colorful dilapidation laid before me, and the clouds were incredible. I nailed down a handful of decent slams that I look forward to posting here in the days to come, but I wanted to throw this image up first as I adore the simplicity of it.
Burlington Brick
Focal Length: 31mm | Aperture: f9 | Exposure: 1/320 | ISO: 250 | Post: CS4
Delicious simplicity, texture, color and composition. I love how you can see where the city has made an effort to remove the graffiti from the brick, yet traces of it linger…
Stockton Street
Focal Length: 18mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/125 | ISO: 100 | Post: CS1
When venturing to Chinatown in San Francisco, you are most often lead to Grant Street, where numerous shops and storefronts sling a wide array of all things China. Smells of Chinese cuisine drift towards the nostrils, camera batteries are sold, that beautiful Chinese calligraphy labels all of the shops and restaurants. Golden dragons, colorful lanterns, and vibrantly intricate garments are all there. Grant Street is the Chinatown for white people or tourists. The real Chinatown runs one block up the hill and parallel to Grant and that is Stockton Street. Here is where the SF residents of Chinese descent shop and eat and swap wares. It’s less glamorous and more genuine, it’s stinky and sticky and incredibly dirty, I love it.
Patriotic Minimalism
Focal Length: 22mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/320 | ISO: 1000 | Post: CS4
This past Saturday, I ventured into Essex to check out the Champlain Valley Fair. I hadn’t been in over a decade, and well… not much has changed really. Murphy’s Law was in full effect as the one day I attended was the only day it rained, and the rain almost amplifies the level of depression at the fair. Lot’s of stuff you don’t need for twice the price, agricultural exhibitions, rickety rides, and oh yes: fried dough. Discovering the red white and blue Winnebago out behind a poultry showcase was what made my day, I adore simply composed pictures with color and grit. Yum.
Piece
Focal Length: 135mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/500 | ISO: 140 | Post: CS1
This was taken at the Olympic/China/Tibet Rally along the Embarcadero in San Francisco last year, quite a display of raw human power. I love the man rising up against the lamp post with his big ‘ol Peace symbol bling and his vivid red accessories complimenting the entirety of his “uniform”. What I don’t get, is just to the right of this gentleman is a blue jellyfish on a stick that really has nothing to fucking do with the situation in protest that day.
Vacant Domicile
Focal Length: 40mm | Aperture: f5 | Exposure: 1/4000 | ISO: 1000 | Post CS1
The Stockbridge neighborhood in Charlotte, Vermont consists of maybe a dozen upper-class homes all plopped on communal acreage. One of the first houses as you enter the development has been abandoned for quite a few years, weeds and shrubs have taken over the windows and walkways, the pool is murky with flotsam and jetsam, the paint is making a break for it and there’s a car in the driveway that has actually sunk into the asphalt as a result of not moving for several years.