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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
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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05/05/2010
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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01/24/2010
09/05/2009
Rankin, PA, Carnagie\'s steel mill
I put up some new photographs on this steel mill, check them out.
<a href=\”http://www.oboylephoto.com/rankin\”>www.oboylephoto.com/rankin</a>
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09/04/2009
Carrie Furnace, Rankin PA
I made a visit to Rankin in December, my previous visits were years before, in the early 2000\’s. A lot had changed at the site since then, it is under redevelopment now, a heritage site with a lot of commercial sites being developed adjacent to the old blast furnaces.
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02/25/2009
Tahawus railway car scale building
This photographs is from a 2004 visit to Tahawus, a mining site, and also the name of the town that used to stand on this site in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. I\’ve updated my photo essay of Tahawus, some of the photographs have not been posted previously.
<a href=\”../mine/index.htm\”>Tahawus Photographs</a>
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11/29/2008
11/18/2008
06/25/2008
06/24/2008
05/30/2008
Bethlehem Steel, #2 Machine Shop
I have some exciting news, the Bethlehem Steel portfolio will be published in the July-August issue of Lenswork magazine, what I consider to be the premier B&W photography publication. The print quality of Lenswork is of the highest quality, so I really look forward to seeing the Bethlehem photographs in print there, as well as the interview I had with Lenswork. If you are not a subscriber to Lenswork, this is a good time, you get the best B&W publication, and the opportunity to see my work in print, so <a href=\”http://lenswork.com/index.html\”>click here to visit lenswork</a> if you are interested.
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03/25/2008
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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