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Rust and Restoration

Yesterday I finally made it to an open house of the Midwest Railway Preservation Society (MRSP) in Cleveland’s Flats.  I’ve driven by the old historic roundhouse many times and wished I could get inside!  It was well worth the wait and … Continue reading

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More From the Bank

To Continue where I left off in my last post, here are a few more photos from the now closed Cleveland Trust Bank.  The vault door shown on the last post was rectangular and was amazingly complex and beautiful. Here … Continue reading

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A Steel and Brass Beauty

    After some technical difficulties yesterday, I finally got things squared away to publish my first post of  2013!  For those of you interested, Photoshop, and everything else for that matter, works a little differently on a Mac Platform … Continue reading

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Memories of a Childhood

Last Friday I went down into Cleveland’s flats.  This is an industrial area of steel mills, river shipping, railroads and old neighborhoods.  It’s absolutely one of my favorite areas in which to shoot photos.  As I was driving out, I … Continue reading

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The Old and the New

I shot this photo at an old sawmill where I was shooting some of the old machinery, a subject that I enjoy shooting and converting to black and white images.  What caught my eye with this scene though was the … Continue reading

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Appearances Can Be Deceptive

If you’ve never been there, or even if you have and may not remember it, you may be thinking, what a beautiful mansion or resort hotel!  Well, it did house special guests.  It is the administration building at the old … Continue reading

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Black and White and Shades of Gray

Surrounded by small blue collar neighborhood bars and modest homes, Cleveland’s once vibrant industrial flats still offer interesting photo opportunities.  This photo, taken from the end of Pershing Ave., overlooks one of the few remaining steelyards.  With wires, tracks, and … Continue reading

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More Influences

  Aside from painters, such as Hopper featured in an earlier blog posting, many photographers have influenced my work as well.  Documentary black and white photography by people such as Lewis Hine and Margaret Bourke-White had a major influence on … Continue reading

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