On 3/31/2021 4:24 AM, ann sanfedele wrote:
I do too, Mike .spooky and ominous.. Also, I found several that looked
overdone on the HDR side. AND since he is photographing what I consider
my my main territory, I feel he could have found more interesting
facades in those same towns.. But what irks me most is that he is not
--identifying the towns that he is showing here--. Now I thought perhaps
that is the fault of the publisher of the article about him.. perhaps he
has them captioned or indexed in his book .but I looked at the
collectionon his web site (and liked several of the photos there that
were not in the article.). but he didn't ID the locations.
He talks about the endless variety he sees crossing america but doesn't
present it. sigh.. but I will get some amusement out of them..
finding a few of the towns with googles help using the signage on the
buildings..
ann
Some people do this deliberately to try to keep copycats from over
running the areas where they like to photograph.
I don't know if anyone here remembers the picture that I put into the
PDML Chicago gallery show from a few years back, it was the one of the
abandoned school shot through the old swing set.
Apparently a couple of years after I took that picture, some Model
Mayhem photographer took a girl out there, did a photo session using the
swing set as the major prop, and after he was done he took a chain saw
to the structure to ensure no one would be able to copy his magnificent
work.
I read a story out of Utah a few years ago where some numb nut got a
nice image of something or other in one of the parks, IIRC, there was a
fully in bloom cactus in the forground, and after he was done he kicked
the plant to death, again to ensure none else would be able to get the
same picture he got.
Obviously, or at least hopefully, no one is going to take a wrecking
ball to an old building just to ensure none else gets to photograph it,
but this is the mindset that many people have.
bill
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