Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Tattoo

Union City, Connecticut


Tattoo parlors prefer not to display their interiors to the world. I've seen all sorts of opaque window treatments used. In this case, mirror-like plastic film inside the picture window. I wondered whether it might be a one-way material, giving insiders a secret view out to the street, but they weren't open yet so I didn't find out.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Poles and Fences

Waterbury, Connecticut

At different points I seem to get fascinated by common objects that we see all the time but can use as repeat-with-variation elements in pictures. Metal fences and utility poles have been attracting my attention a lot recently.

Waterbury, Connecticut

Monday, September 28, 2009

Water Tower, Two Views

Housatonic, Massachusetts

It's never seemed important to me to find one single, definitive view of a subject. Sometimes I return to the same subjects again and again to find new interpretations. It's OK to see more than one interesting view of a subject and I don't think it's essential to decide which view is best. For that matter, I feel the same way about prints. If I return to a picture I've printed years before, I don't make any effort to print it exactly the same way as before. I look for the best interpretation I can make now, and don't care if it's different. After all, maybe I know a little more about pictures, and printing them, than I did ten or forty years ago.


Housatonic, Massachusetts

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Dawn

Litchfield, Connecticut


Supplemental:

Litchfield, Connecticut, 9/27/09

I'd planned to shoot at a street fair in Torrington today, but it was rainy and cold so the event was canceled. Fall is rolling in too, and while I was out I got this view at White's Memorial Reserve, shot from exactly the same spot as this morning's post, made last July.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Lawn Ornament

Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Public art in a front yard along Main Street (US Route 7).

There's a continuing series of new posts this week at The WPII Blog, pictures from a health care reform rally in Hartford, CT.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Window Blinds

Torrington, Connecticut


I love it when a purely accidental arrangement is accidentally perfectly designed.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009

New Shop Windows, Four

Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Beauty Parlor


Torrington, Connecticut
Salvation Army Store.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Security Plus

Waterbury, Connecticut

As always, you can click on the picture to see a larger view, then use your browser back button to return.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

Weeds

Winsted, Connecticut


Winsted, Connecticut

I've lost count how many pictures of weeds I've used here. I remain fascinated with the way weeds tenaciously advance on urban environments.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Words

And now for something almost completely different, a text essay over at the WPII Blog. OK, there are some pictures too, but this time it's mostly words. Link on over.

Abandoned

Naugatuck, Connecticut


Torrington, Connecticut

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Friday, September 04, 2009

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Romance begins in a Tuxedo!

Torrington, Connecticut


As always, you can click on the picture to see a larger version, then use your browser's back button to return.

New Postings continue at The WPII Blog.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

AmeriGas

West Stockbridge, Massachusetts


More new postings at The WPII Blog this week.