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I’ve just started a kickstarter project titled Redlegs to help fund a trip to Charleston S.C. to continue my photography and writing work on the Plantations project. There are some good rewards for your support if the project is successful. Check it out here if you get a chance.
Redlegs Plantation Project
or
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1322320805/redlegs-0
11/17/2011
Kickstarter Project “Redlegs”
I’ve just started a kickstarter project titled Redlegs to help fund a trip to Charleston S.C. to continue my photography and writing work on the Plantations project. There are some good rewards for your support if the project is successful. Check it out here if you get a chance.
Redlegs Plantation Project
or
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1322320805/redlegs-0
The goal is to raise money to help offset travel costs, and to do some on the ground research for the writing portion of the project. It’s a unique project for me because it combines my photography with my fictional writing for the first time. So please help support this kickstarter project, you will get some nice rewards if it is successful.
Redlegs
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03/05/2011
Plantation Ruins – St. John
More photographs of the plantations can be seen here. http://www.oboylephoto.com/plantations/
St. John USVI, plantation ruins
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12/26/2010
Hoosac Transect images
I’ve posted a selection of images from the year long – and still ongoing – Hoosac Transect project. It’s a project I have been working on since January 2010, photographing along the Hoosac Tunnel rail corridor. It’s the largest project I’ve taken on to date, covering a 200 mile long corridor from Albany New York, through the southern corner of Vermont, and on through the old manufacturing cities in northern Massachusetts to Boston. The images shown at this link are a small sample of the edit from the project. The content is more subtle than my other work, with deep roots, touching many areas that interest me.
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12/10/2010
Books
My current project is photographing along the Hoosac Rail line, which eventually leads to Albany NY. An interesting city with a lot of layers to explore.
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10/04/2010
Weekend Shoot
Some nice light and fog this past weekend on Sunday morning. The air was clear with high contrast, but along the river valley the fog hung for hours, and made for some nice shooting.
Hoosic River, Pownal, VT
Drive-in, North Hoosick
Rail Crossing and Bridge
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09/24/2010
The Walk from Work
I live 1 mile from my workplace. I walk most days, so the scenery along the way is familiar. I thought I would take some snapshots on the way home today to see if anything stuck. It looks more interesting in the photos than it does on the ground.
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06/09/2010
Tahawus Mine
These are some photographs from one of my favorite projects – the Tahawus Mine in the High Peaks regions of New York’s Adirondack mountains. The High Peaks are also one of my favorite places for hiking and camping, which I did for years before discovering the Tahawus mine ruins. The mine ruins were located on what was the town of Tahawus. The town was relocated south to Newcomb in order for the mine to expand operations. The entire photo essay can be found here http://www.oboylephoto.com/mine/index.htm The mine buildings were razed a few years ago, but the landscape still tells the story of the past.
Tahawus Mine
Tahawus Mine
Tahawus Mine
Tahawus Mine
Tahawus Mine
Tahawus Mine
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06/02/2010
New Home Sewing Machine Company
Main Office - New Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange MA has some interesting mid-late 19th century industrial architecture that is sitting vacant, or little used. The buildings were the former offices and manufacturing facilities of the New Home Sewing Machine Company. These building sit alongs the Miller River which was used to power the mills, and are also adjascent to the old Fitchburg Rail line that ran (and runs) from Boston to Troy New York through the Hoosac Tunnel.
New Home Sewing Machine Company
New Home Sewing Machine Company
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05/12/2010
05/11/2010
Fig Tree
A new loosely defined project. Photograph the architecture, and whatever else is interesting, along a corridor defined by an old rail line. The idea is that the rail line was the seed that many of these towns and industries sprang from. So it is the root of these communtities, even though that rail line has all but ceased to exist.
An analogy that comes to mind is a strangler fig tree, which grows around a host tree. Eventually the host tree dies and decays and disappears, leaving a massive fig tree with a hollow interior the shape of the host tree. This project is all about shooting that fig tree, the interior and exterior.
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05/09/2010
Cocktails and Bowling
cocktails and bowling
Does it get any better than cocktails and bowling?
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05/05/2010
Pittsfield, MA
Night photographs of this post-industrial city near where I grew up. I shot these in 2002-2003 with a hand held 3-megapixel point & shoot camera. I like the sketchy nature of the images, almost like drawings. I’m interested in the old neighborhoods near the industrial area, in the true heart of the city. More from this series linked here.
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