The Clock Tower
I haven’t been shooting or posting much lately, in case you haven’t noticed. The reasons are varied and rather boring, so I won’t bore you with details. So yesterday’s windy day with dramatic clouds moving across the sky was just what I needed to get out and break my funk. My destination was the Ayer …
The Clock Tower
I never get tired of photographing the clock tower. Some rain had moved through the area on Saturday and there were some fantastic clouds lingering. Most notably, this gorgeous formation, conveniently farming the Ayer Mill Clock Tower and the other mills along the shore of the Merrimack River. This was shot from the back parking …
The Clock Tower
I grabbed this image during my first visit to the roof of the Ayer Mill in 2010. It is another older image that I recently reworked in black and white. The effort appears to be taking shape as a series. Related Images:
Clock Works
Here is another shot from last Saturday’s clock tower shoot. This one (obviously) without Charlie. I grabbed this just after Charlie told Steven Perlmutter and me about the massive undertaking that was the restoration process. The clock stopped working in 1955 and remained unattended until the early 90s. The condition of the various pieces of …
Charlie Waites: Keeper of the Clock
I first met Charlie Waites in 2010 when I originally photographed the clock. Charlie was the guy who guided me up to the tower, through the belfry and into the clock, just as he did again this past weekend when I took these shots. The clock was originally installed 1910 by E. Howard Company of …
The Clock Tower
Here is an image from a Historic Mills Photo Walk a few weeks ago. It was shot from the newly renovated and reopened Duck Bridge in Lawrence. I really love it when the Ayer Mill Clock tower is isolated in an image. For this photo walk I used my Olympus OMD, Micro Four Thirds camera exclusively. …