I apologize for the lack of new content. I haven’t felt very motivated to shoot much lately.
So for now, here are some shots for the Philadelphia Grid Project from April when we were wandering around south Philly.
Archive for the 'architecture' Category
10
Jun
south Philly, part 1
This past Saturday, I met up with some of the other members of the Phildelphia Grid Project to head out to Germantown where we were interviewed for FOX 29 news. The segment aired that evening on the news. In case you missed it, you can check it out on the FOX news website. I’m glad that they blurred me out because I really didn’t want to be on the news.
Below are some of the photos that I took in the area that day, but I’ll probably be heading back out to the area again to capture more for this month’s grid.
In an attempt to escape the city today, we did not escape the rain. I had been wanting to check out Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge for a while now. There don’t seem to be many trails throughout the Refuge and the available maps are pretty much nil. Before realizing the correct direction to the Refuge, we stumbled upon Fort Mott State Park. Fort Mott was built in post Civil War times as part of a three-fort defense system along the Delaware River. The Fort (along with the other two, Fort Delaware and Fort DuPont) became obsolete shortly after World War I. You could only explore one of the bunkers at Fort Mott, but the structure itself was pretty cool. It started to rain again so we decided to head for the car and try to find Supawna Meadows. We took a short walk through the Refuge and very little photos. But for being under 40 miles outside of Philadelphia (in New Jersey), it was a nice escape for the day.
It’s been over 100 degrees there lately.
Reminiscing about the Salton Sea tonight and how much I want to go back as soon as possible. I have so many photos that I haven’t even gone through from my trip to California. I didn’t get to spend nearly as much time photographing the Salton Sea as I had hoped. Better luck next time.
It’s been a while since I’ve made any composite photos. I will often go for months without doing any of them and then go on a rampage of making a few of them. I often use 2-4 images. This one was made with two: the photo of the house and a texture image of some plywood.
I had gone to Gettysburg National Military Park with my parents about a month ago when I went to our cabin to relax during my recovery. Gettysburg isn’t too far from our cabin so we often go there when we feel like taking a drive. The sky was really overcast and generally crappy. And it was hot and humid. I didn’t feel like taking photos.
I normally don’t work this dark. But I went for dark. I will probably hate it tomorrow.
09
May
Kempton, Pennsylvania
I wrote about the adventure to Centralia last weekend. After Centralia, we briefly explored the town of Shamokin (which was NOT shamokin like Centralia was), another coal mining town in central PA. As we drove back to Philly, we took a slight detour to check out the very rural area of Kempton, near Hawk Mountain. Steve was sharing a spooky ghost story on the way there. Apparently, serial killer Matthias Schambacher and his wife had rented rooms in their house as a wayside inn to travelers. Rumors began to circulate that guests who had entered their house were never seen again.
Although his gravestone is now gone, Matthias Schambacher is buried in the supposedly haunted New Bethel Cemetery. We saw the general location of where he is buried, along with many other gravestones dating as far back as the mid-1700s on one side of the cemetery. The other side of the cemetery has recent gravestones and burials as recent as a few days prior to our visit.
The location of the cemetery was an absolutely stunning view from a hillside that overlooked the church and the valley. We were there at sunset and the weather seemed to make it a bit eerie, in my opinion…even though Steve kept trying to convince us that it was a peaceful place. Even a killdeer seemed be trying to give us a warning to leave the place. ghosts!!
I never got around to posting my March photos for the Philadelphia Grid Project. I got some useful images, but nothing that I was really happy with this time. However, we did check out a really awesome abandoned house that was in the process of being torn down and had some really cool remnants inside of it. March’s grid fell within west Philly, encompassing the area of Mantua where most of my photos were taken.
We had our meeting last night to review and discuss the photos. My photo to be entered into the archives for the month of March is the first one below: a photo of a Polaroid found in the abandoned house.
14
Apr
Halifax, Pennsylvania
Just some eye candy to keep things a bit more lively and entertaining on here. Some past photos from Halifax, a small town in central Pennsylvania.
04
Apr
on the rails
