Photography by Robert Lussier

Here is another view of the century+ old hand cart in the attic of the century+ old Stone Mill in Lawrence, MA. It is probably the most photographed artifact in the building. Added bonus, the really cool skylight windows.

Photographing sunrise is something I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with; I LOVE capturing an epic, colorful sunrise, but I HATE the fact that sunrise happens so damned early in the day! They say there’s an App for everything… why can’t we have an App to make sunrise happen later in the day? When I …

Over the past eight or nine years, my good friend, Steven Perlmutter and I, in cooperation with The Lawrence History Center and Everett Mills Properties, conducted a series photography workshops in the Stone and Everett Mills. These workshops gave us the opportunity to share our love of photography and of these buildings with dozens of …

Essex Company Machine Shop (the Stone Mill) was built as part of Lawrence’s first wave of construction which included the Great Stone Dam, the locks and canals, and several mill buildings including the Duck and Pemberton. The machine shop was designed to manufacture the machinery to be used in the textile mills that were sprouting up …

I’ve been revisiting the Stone Mill lately. It remains, for now, the last mill in Lawrence with an abundance of original open space. As one of the first mills in the City, its story is the story of Lawrence.   In my return visits, I looked for details, and revisited some old compositions and got …

A gritty shot of a boat hull from a dreary day photo trip to Gloucester MA.

Today I decided to revisit the Mill. The Stone is one of the first I mills in Lawrence I photographed, it is also the first mill building built in Lawrence, and the last mill building that remains mostly un-renovated. This re-visitation is long overdue, and I plan to do it with new eyes (figuratively, not …

My hometown of Methuen, MA has a lot of history and a lot of cool architecture. That means of course, it has a lot to photograph. Unfortunately, I don’t often think to take advantage of all Methuen has to offer my camera. But I am making an effort to change that, starting today. One of …

Lawrence, Massachusetts has been at the forefront of my photography for about a dozen years. The city’s old mills and smokestacks that line the Merrimack River and the bridges that traverse it make wonderful subjects. They help connect me to the region’s history. I’ve been going through my earlier images of the city and I …

Back in 2017, for some strange reason, I took on the self-inflicted pain of photographing and posting a new, blog worthy, image for each day of the calendar year. I was enthusiastically immersed in the project for the entire year… er… a couple of months… weeks… um… maybe days(?) before I was overwhelmed with the …