3 things and 3 things

These three are my images from some of my past semesters. The first image of the power station is from a project I was doing on a small town called Port Deposit. The electrical stuff belongs is part of the Conowingo hydro-electric dam which occasionally releases too much water and floods the small town, which resides right on the river side. I suppose it was inspired by a more documentarian purpose than an artful one.


This second one is the chimney that remained after a house burned down, supposedly due to arson. It was one of the first images I took with a large format camera that turned out ok. At the time I was very interested in William Christenberry and his style of shooting things straight on, though he generally works in color. I was also trying to capture something with a more southern theme and felt impressed by the resilience of the chimney. I would have liked to have taken this in color and included the whole thing in the shot, rather than cropping off the top.


More recently I've gotten my hands on a 5x7 view camera and haven't quite fixed it yet. But while its got copious light leaks, it turns out some quite mysterious images. This was sort of a tangent to the earlier project on Port Deposit. While researching the town I found out about an old naval training facility used during WWII and closed shortly thereafter. All the buildings still stand in their southern gothic brick glory in quite decent condition, despite having been abandoned 50 plus odd years. Trying to emulate some Sally Mann type things with this one. I think it comes through quite well. These are the gears that control the bell in the belfry way up in the top of one of the buildings. The dirty photograph has much more appeal to me than the crisp one.