I was asked if I could take a picture of “real, unflinching evil”. I wasn’t exactly sure that I knew what the fave of unflinching evil would look like. Today I realized I know evil. I know it like I never ever wanted to know. Evil has been sitting on my desk for the past week! Evil has caused my hand to go numb more than once.
Evil is named Mercedes…
When I went to college a bunch of my friends went to NYC to open up a Dominos franchise. For spring break I went to New York to hang out for a few days. The guys rented a house in a town north of the city called Rye. A short drive north from Rye is Greenwich, CT. This picture is from Greenwich. I remember we were looking for Greenwich Point. I don’t remember if took this pic from “the point”, but I have always referred to this picture as “Greenwich Point”.
BTW, I don’t the scanner did this picture justice, and I am not sure how to fix it. Maybe I should dig up the negative and get it scanned somewhere.
Did you ever see the movie What about Bob?? Well the lake they used in that movie is this lake…or does it sound better to say this is the lake they used in the movie? Yeah let’s go with the second way. Anyway, it is a huge lake so I don’t think they actually used this little bit of the water in the movie.
Maybe I should move the scanner to the living room so I can reach it from the lazy…lazy…nevermind. Anyway, here is another shot from Saturday night.
I think I have a couple more pics I want to scan, but I don’t feel like messing with the scanner tonight so here is something I took last night.
Continuing the retrospective, I am mostly pretty happy with this picture. There might be a bit too much foreground, but I could clean that up with a bit of cropping. I just wish I could remember when and where I took the shot…
Part of my reason for going through my old pics is to see how much I have progressed. This picture is one that I had set aside at some point as one of my best. When I look at it now all I see are the problems. My biggest grip is the cropping. I would like to see the whole wheel and all of the trough. It has been so long since I took the picture I don’t know what I was going for at the time. There is a small chance that I took the picture “right” and the photo lab ‘helpfully’ cropped it down when they developed it. It would also be interesting to see some motion in the wheel. This is something I never would have thought about back then because I wouldn’t have wanted to waste film experimenting. Today I could easily take 50 shots just to see what works.
This is another shot from the Kanawha River…well not so much of the river, but this is part of life along this river. Coal. There is a lot of strip mining going on around this area, and most of the coal makes it way to river where it is loaded on barges. This mess of machinery on the side of the hill is used to load the coal into the barges.
I will admit these two shots show the bleaker side of WV. While they certainly do a good job of representing how I feel about the time I spent there, they do not show the full picture. There is another side to WV that is not covered in coal dust. A side that is actually very beautiful.
This is another scan from the early 90’s…the mighty Kanawha River in WV. It is a reminder of a dark time in my life…college. I am not all that sure this is a great picture, but it was taken on B&W film so I thought it was kind of interesting to compare this one to the picture I posted yesterday.
I think kanawha is Native American for “coal barge”.
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