The Old Silk Mill

I recently got a chance to visit the Klotz Silk Mill in Lonaconing Maryland. Not only was this exciting for me because I love old machines, but I happen to live in a converted cotton mill so I got to see first hand what I imagine my building might have once looked...

Urban Exploration

Wind rattles the deteriorating sheet metal siding as water loudly drips into rusty, orange colored pools. Loud clanging of pipes ring out as a “scrapper” beats on the bones of this building with a 40lb sledge. These are the sounds of urban exploration, or...

Abandoned Plant, Detroit, Michigan

It’s quiet now, so quiet I can hear the snowflakes falling just past the metal crisscross of the broken out factory windows. I imagine the noise and frenzy that would have been all around when this plant was producing some of the finest cars in the world....

Gladding McBean

This weekend I photographed some amazing industrial scenes at the historical Gladding McBean factory in Lincoln, California. This was a field workshop put on by Gene Kennedy and Viewpoint Gallery . Friday night was orientation at the Viewpoint Gallery in Sacramento....

Paria Bingo

B-10 BINGO! Bright and early yesterday morning I was at the Paria Canyon BLM office along with 30 or so other folks taking part in a bizarre ritual. The half acre or so of wilderness known as “the wave” may be one of the most hotly contested areas to visit...

Antelope Canyon

OK I wasn’t going to visit at first, but I caved in. I figure this slot canyon is as beautiful as when I first saw it in 1992, I would just have to ignore what has changed. When I first visited back in the nineties I pulled off onto a small, unmarked dirt road,...