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The images in this alphabet series were created by placing the objects directly on a flatbed scanner. I originally started this project in photo school, quite a while ago, and finally finished it last year, thanks to Anne's A-B-C-Along.
March 09, 2008
February 20, 2008
Gas Anchor
New Orleans, Louisiana
February 06, 2008
Clean Iron
French Quarter
New Orleans, Louisiana
November 03, 2007
Water -> Open
French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
May 20, 2007
October 30, 2006
October 07, 2006
Sanitary Sewer
Victoria, BC, Canada
October 04, 2006
City Light
Victoria, BC, Canada
September 29, 2006
September 26, 2006
GWP
Oakland, CA
September 23, 2006
Minimal
Another one from our neighborhood in Oakland. This was taken along Grand Avenue.
September 19, 2006
Fuel Oil
Victoria, BC, Canada
September 11, 2006
F-59
Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA
August 15, 2006
August 13, 2006
No. 1 Water
Provincetown, MA
July 27, 2006
Provincetown Water
Provincetown, MA
July 23, 2006
CP Cover - Boston
My declaration of being back from vacation was a bit premature - I spent most of this week with a killer cold. Mmmm... summer cold, during the hottest days of the year so far. Lots of fun!
Finally catching up a bit today - I've imported all of my vacation photos, so I'll have fresh blog fodder for a little while. This one was taken in Boston, near the Aquarium, I think.
June 25, 2006
Parkson Water
Santa Barbara, California
June 14, 2006
Drain Cleanout S&WB
New Orleans, Louisiana
Drain Cleanout
New Orleans, Louisiana
May 29, 2006
No More Cafe
On our way to lunch, we walked past the now-defunct Autumn Moon restaurant.The sidewalk out front had part of their logo embossed into it. How I miss their blintzes!
May 25, 2006
New Orleans Water 2
New Orleans, Louisiana
May 07, 2006
New Orleans Drain 3
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Drain 2
New Orleans, Louisiana
Yellow Gas
New Orleans, Louisiana
Water/No Water
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 26, 2006
New Orleans Drain 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Water 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 11, 2006
Crescent City Cover
One of the famous New Orleans drain covers; this one had one of the nicer surrounds that I came across.
February 21, 2006
Cape May Water 2
And another from the same trip.
Cape May Water 1
Continuing the theme, this is from Cape May, taken while I was there with my family over the holidays.
February 20, 2006
Pittsburgh Water 2
Another from the same trip.
Pittsburgh Water 1
Since our trip to New Orleans last year, I've been collecting photos of utility pipe covers and manhole covers. I think the appeal for me is related to my love of making quilts from a collection of similar but not identical blocks.
This was taken in Pittsburgh, last Labor Day weekend, while I was visiting my pal Jen.
December 25, 2005
Water and Water Meter
Every city seems to do these covers a little bit differently. I think my fascination with photographing them is analagous to making quilt blocks. I'm envisioning eventually having a large grid of these images.
December 18, 2005
Equitable Gas
I spent Labor Day weekend in Pittsburgh, with my two best pals, Jen and Donna, their husbands (both Scott), and Jen's kids Logan and Brenna. After a fabulous birthday brunch for Jen on Sunday, we took a stroll through the hip neighborhood. A lot of the stores were closed, but it was still fun to window shop.
So far, everything I've posted here has been older work, that has been scanned from slides or negatives that span the last twenty years. I'm going to mix it up a bit for the next couple of weeks while we are on vacation. Starting with this image, I'm going to post some of my newer images that were taken with my digital SLR. I'll get back to the archival stuff in the New Year; I have lots of it to get through, and that was part of my goal in starting the blog.
