Down the road a piece from yesterday’s photo is the beautiful Monocacy River and the truss bridge I was standing on to take this photo. Yes, another shadowed self portrait.
Bridge Over The Monocacy No. 1
I spent some time today photographing a great country road and will be sharing several of the photos over the next couple of days. I darkened the black and white version to give it a full moonlight look.
Country Road Study No. 1
Country Road Black and White Study No. 1
A world class collection of historic death and life masks…
Death And Life Masks
Aaron Burr was one of the most talented men of our Founding Father’s generation. Unfortunately he had a run in with Alexander Hamilton and since has been a villain of sorts. It is interesting how one misstep can change your legacy in history.
This photo like yesterday’s is a artist rendition of the mask casting. I used a lot of contrast and simulated bleach bypass effect. I will in the future post an archival image of the mask.
Aaron Burr, Faces Of The Dead No. 2
I am spending a good part of this week with the faces of dead people…
Before there was photography and even after, the only way to actually record in three dimensions what a person looked like was to make a death or life mask – paintings and drawings, while often very accurate, always have a bit of the artists interpretation attached in only two dimensions.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Last night was the opening program and orientation for Common Ground On The Hill, at McDaniel College, in Westminster, Maryland. Common Ground is a mixture of courses in the arts, talks, performances, and artist exhibits that strives to bring together people from diverse backgrounds by finding commonality in the arts. It is fun!
Common Ground – Artists No. 1
I am going to continue to play with the photos I took yesterday of the Civil War reenactors. This one I vignetted the edges and added a sepia tone, it is sort of a vintage look while maintaining good contrast and crisp detail.
Union Mill, Civil War Reenactor No. 2
I stopped at The Union Mills Homestead in Maryland this morning for a wonderful pancake breakfast which included photographing a number of Civil War reenactors. This event is part of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Union Mills Homestead – Civil War Reenactor
Thought I would stay with the stone wall topic, but in this case, it is the wall of an old mill in Maryland. Photo shows an interesting mixture of stone work capped by bricks with a door the goes to nowhere and an old broken window.
What was is no longer…
Closed doors
Broken windows
Crumbling bricks
Shifting stones
When, Why, How, did it all end…
Heart closed
Spirit broken
Life crumbling
Mind shifting and slipping away.
What was is no longer…
Unable to enter back in,
All access denied…. Nannette
Old Mill Stone Wall
This mill first appears in one of my photographs in 1968, and I have returned in recent years numerous times to photograph this interesting structure. This photograph was taken two weeks ago. Last year I did a small study of old feed mills in this area, north of Hagerstown, Maryland. If you wish to see this study, click on the link below and it will take you to it in a book format:
Taneytown, Maryland Feed Mill 2013, No. 1