The state of Utah is blessed with some of the most astounding landscapes in the country. It has five national parks within its borders, a number bested only by Alaska and California. Earlier this year, I and a couple of friends spent a week in the Beehive State to experience some of this natural splendor … Continue reading Arches National Park
The far northwest corner of Illinois is its own little ecosystem of despair. Aside from the cutesy tourist town of Galena and the pockets of Chicago exurbs featuring gaudy McMansions, this region feels like a part of the rust belt. A couple months ago, we visited a town in the area which I’ll leave nameless. … Continue reading Driftless
I’m a bit of a geek for airports. Most people today might associate them with long security lines, drudgery of business trips, and the stress of travel more generally. But I rarely travel for work or other obligations, and so since I was a little kid the airport has always been the gateway to adventures. … Continue reading A Jet Age Marvel
Last winter, my wife and I spent a week in NYC doing the typical things a tourist might do. It wasn’t explicitly a photo trip, but I still brought me camera because I figured I’d find something to photograph. Normally, if I’m shooting a city, I spend a lot of time just walking around for … Continue reading New York City
It is a perverse irony that when life gets hard, be it from overwork or depression, the very things that provide succor and distraction can lose their appeal. So it became, for me, with photography. It has been half a year since I’ve posted anything here, and what better way to get off the schneid … Continue reading A Winter’s Campus
A return to Gary, the struggling steel town about 45 minutes outside Chicago, is always welcome. I spent so much time here when I started in photography that there isn’t much here I haven’t seen, and yet I feel I always come away with some fresh shots. And, as my avocation has become more ambitious … Continue reading Gary, Winter
This is the last post in a series on last month’s trip to Italy. I hope to finish on a high note, with some of what I think were my best photographs from the churches we visited, and likely the trip overall. The first shot is a one off. This church overlooked a steep hillside … Continue reading The Churches of Italy, Part Two
The fourth part in the series on last month’s trip to Italy. Here is an interesting factoid. On last year’s trip around the north, villas were the most common type of abandoned building we saw. Hands down this year, it was churches in the south. One might be able to draw some conclusions about the … Continue reading The Churches of Italy
The third post in a series on last month’s urbex trip to Italy. To start, here is a former military hospital in southern Italy. Built at the height of Mussolini’s fascist rule in streamline moderne style, it covers a large swath of land in the middle if Bari. Though the buildings are mostly barren and … Continue reading Abandoned Italy
I thought ghost towns were largely a stateside phenomenon, but as it turns out, Italy may have us beat. One source I saw claimed that the country has six thousand of them. I can’t say why there seem to be so many, but I’d speculate that the old Italian propensity for settling on hilltops may … Continue reading The Ghost Towns of Italy
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