New Work - Lull Farm (Hollis, NH)

NPS' 2013 National Landmarks Contest

A number of months ago, I entered the National Park Service's annual National Landmarks photo contest. I knew the entry deadline had long since passed by now and was curious to see how it all worked out: many of the submitted entries were gorgeous. Last night, I found this page of semi-finalists. Guess whose entry I circled?

Winners and honorable mentions are scheduled to be announced later this month. Keep your fingers crossed!

New Work: Abandoned House

See these and more at http://www.freewebs.com/lgfindlay/house.htm:

New Work: Fort Knox Observatory

Here's my favorite image from an impromptu "photo shoot" at the Prospect, ME observatory: it was shot through the windshield of a moving car!

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It works in black-and-white, too:

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I particularly like the bow to the building, which resulted from using my lens at a wide-angle setting: the tower doesn't really lean that way in "real life". Sometimes "flaws" can be used to a photographer's creative benefit, too.

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This is making me think about whether there's such a thing as "wabi-sabi photography": embracing the "imperfections" in one's work as true/real/honest/valued. This of course, assumes that it's done intentionally at the shooting or editing stage. (Otherwise, it's just laziness, obliviousness, or denial.)

New Work: Eastern State Penitentiary (PA)

The following is a representative sample of the 400+ images I shot last weekend at Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, PA). I've been fascinated by the abandoned prison ever since I learned about it a few years ago. While the Penitentiary closed more than 40 years ago, it has been operated for the past few decades as a tourist attraction. These images are heavily influenced by the more than three years I spent as a volunteer at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men.

These images (and 46 others) can also be viewed on my web site.

To learn more about Eastern State Penitentiary, visit www.easternstate.org.

New Work: Bethlehem Steel Mills

New Work: Lily Abstract

More Blooming Pix

I continue to be fascinated by the flowers around our house:

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and for D, who continues to get flustered by ants:

New Work: More Garden Pix