I recently spent some time in Maine. My wife’s youngest nephew was getting married in Bar Harbor, Maine. We took our time driving up from New Jersey. I got to spend some time in Lewiston, Maine photographing some of their old Mills. I was glad to see a number of them had new life with new industries moving into the buildings and some converted to new uses.
I am starting to enjoy working with color. Here is an image from Wildwood Crest, NJ in the off season.
Here are two views of the Indian King Tavern in Haddonfield, NJ made in 2005. Sometimes you want complain about obstacles in front of your subjects and sometimes you can use them.
I attended a convention in the hotel connected to this parking garage. I was able to make a couple of images before I was informed that you could not photograph from parking garages after 911.
I was just about to start a new job when I shot this. I remember I was driving around this little town near coal country in Pennsylvania. I was going around the block to see about another building, when I saw these doors. I just had to shoot them with the 8×20.
To this day they are still one of my favorite images I’ve made with the 8×20.
PanoramicWisner 8x20ArchetchureAugust 2020UrbanscapeOn the Road8x20
When you work with a panoramic format you start to see all of the world’s long and wide subjects. One subject I have always liked are old diners. This one has been given new life as HL’s Bait & Tackle Shop in Morrisville, PA.
I’ll alway remember the owner came out and yelled something from across the street at me. I couldn’t understand what he said, but I don’t think he was happy with me making a photograph of his building. After he yelled at me, he went back inside. He came back out, flipped me off and taped a drawing of a smilie face to his front door.
I had already made my image and packed up the camera by that time. So I did not make another exposure with the smilie face on the door. I only have the story.
Sad thing is this beautiful building has been “upgraded” since this image was made. It now hardly shows its diner heritage.
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August 2020UrbanscapeDinersPanoramicWisner 8x20Archetchure8x20
We rode a bus to our High School. Every morning it would make a right turn at this corner and go about a half mile down the one way road to the school. These building were opposite that turn. I always liked them.