We met these locals near Pottsville PA while exploring the area looking for landscapes to photograph. They had good advice on how we could build our own strip mine buggy, the reasonable cost of doing this, and how to modify the engine to get the most horsepower out of it.
10/31/2007
Out for a ride in a strip mine buggy
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10/30/2007
Coal Castle
The coal region in Pennsylvania is a fascinating area, it is a place apart, to an outside observer like myself it seems a place removed from today, somehow still a part of the era of big steel. The landscape is scarred with the marks of strip mining of anthracite used as raw material for making steel. A ruined coal breaker and miles of abandoned rail tracks can be seen amongst the weeds and culm piles. Towns, seemingly frozen in time, somewhere about 1950, are over shadowed by these piles, and the rivers run dark from the erosion of these dominant landscape features.
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10/21/2007
I require a pilot – flea market series
The flea market series are photographs that I treat as sketches, snapshots of things that catch my eye and that I find interesting. Objects interest me, and these objects have lost their way, they are a discourse on an unknown history. Very often I\’m surprised to find that the photographs are more interesting than the original scene, the ability to frame and isolate these scenes, and thereby edit out the surrounding chaos, brings a focus to them that doesn\’t exist in their true environment.
There are a thousand stories wanting to be told by these objects, but they are fairly mute and give only hints about where they have been. So there is a vagueness in their message, and there is also an attraction that can be hard to define; memories from childhood are triggered from some unexpected details, a dial, the shape of a chair, an old game, an ornament or toy.
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