Steel Bench
Click image to view larger. I had a great phone conversation last night with my good friend, Jacques Gudé. It was a long conversation that pulled me away from a couple of things I wanted to get done, but didn’t really want to sink my teeth into. That’s a good thing (procrastination, thy name is Bob!). Our chat twisted and [...]
Steam Punk
Tucked away in a tiny room in the back of one of Lawrence’s smaller mill buildings sits this old steam engine. It hadn’t seen daylight in over 100 years until my friend Tom Short discovered it. Of course, he knew to call me when he found it. This is the reason I love urbex. Shooting things that have been abandoned [...]
Malden Mills
Combing through my catalog this morning, I stumbled across this shot, taken from the top of the Water Tower this past summer. It is a shot overlooking the Malden Mills (originally Arlington Mill) in Lawrence. I’m not posting it simply because I love it. I’m posting it as a memorial, of sorts. I have shot in Malden Mill’s yard a [...]
Details
I’m doing a photographic study of a local mill building for the owners. Heritage Place in Lawrence was purchased, gutted and converted to commercial office space about a decade ago. Great for the owners, bad for me. I prefer to get to these buildings while they are in their original, unfinished state. I did a walk through with the building [...]
The Latch
Friday’s image featured one of the really cool gates that overlook the core of the High Service Water Tower in Lawrence. Today I thought I’d feature a close up shot of the latch on the gate.
