Nantucket Vintage
Focal Length: 18mm | Aperture: f10 | Exposure: 1/400 | ISO: 400 | Post: CS1
Few places come to mind when recalling destinations I have frequented as often as Nantucket. My family and I ventured to the small island for the fist time over a decade ago and all of us immediately fell in love with it’s charm and began a bevy of semi-annual returns in the following years. There is a very apparent feeling of going back in time once you set foot upon the island, strict rules govern the style and even the color of structures built here, no chain stores exist on this patch if sand in the Atlantic (what, no McDonald’s?! Nope.), the cobbled streets in the center of town and the overall attitude of locals all pay homage to a simpler time. Suffice it to say that it’s a real treat to stumble upon a classic auto parked on the cobblestone.
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.