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Welcome to my Photography Site. What you will find here is a collection of landscape images, cityscapes and various other images. Pretty much, whatever I decide to offer up.

While you will see a variety of images on this site, my primary focus these days has been photographing the mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Lawrence, along with her sister cities of Lowell and Haverhill, is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America. Brilliant entrepreneurs and engineers harnessed the power of the Merrimack River and created an expanse of textile mill complexes along the river.

Built on the backs of immigrant labor, these mills created opportunity and built the city. Today, the mills are in varying states of dormancy, decay or renovation.

While the mills have always been a preferred subject of mine, I accelerated my efforts after learning that a couple of the huge smokestacks, and the building they sprout from, are going to be razed. I made some connections and was given access to the condemned buildings.

Since then, I have been lucky enough to gain access to the many mill buildings by becoming part of Historic Mill Society, an organization dedicated to the preservation and display of the machines that helped build and power the mills of the 19th century.

I hope you like the images you find here.

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