Homage to Robert Frank

Homage to Robert Frank

On Sunday morning I was driving from Erie, Pennsylvania to New York on Route 6 which winds through PA to NY State....looking for fall colors to photograph - was a bit early - maybe a week or so...But route 6 offered up so many other images of dis-appearing America that the trip was a success...

I had just made a turn when I noticed today;s image out of the corner of my eye.....pulled the car over to the side of the road and noticed the gentlemen sitting in the store staring at me...maybe it was the NY plates....so I sat there quietly listening to sports radio (football Sunday) until he went back to his coffee....

Knowing that the person in the window was instrumental to the image I went with my 4/3rd camera and stealthily (is this really a word) shot form the window....After a few images he saw me and got up and walked into the back of the store....luckily I got the image I wanted....

Color or Black and White?

Now the question is color or black and white....

On a separate front Dodge and Burn make some neat photo t-shirts at a very reasonable price. I have a few and just ordered three more.....Here is a link to their website.....

PS: I do not get anything for this promo.....

http://www.dodgeandburn.com/

Barn, Kane, Pennsylvania

Barn, Kane, PA

There are places I remember all my life  

Though some have changed Some forever, not for better  

Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their moments

Of Lovers and friends I still can recall

Some are dead and some are living

In my life I loved them all 

Lennon - McCartney

The iPhone version of this image is posted on  iphone-antics.blogspot.com -

Red Barber Chair, ESP

Red Barber Chair, ESP

This is a re-doux of an image from a few years back...The Red Barber Chair is in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. A good trip to Philly is to get to the Graffiti Underground and then Eastern State. Makes for quite the photographic day...

Alex and Eddie van Halen

Alex and Eddie Van Halen

Found this one in the archives today.....This was from Hershey in 2004 - The Van Halen Tour with Sammy Hagar....I was the tour manager for the first two legs...

Fonthill Color

Fonthill, Pennsylvania Color

Reworked image from a visit to Fonthill last January. Captured and processed in the iPhone4 using the following applications:

Hipstamatic
Photoforge
perfect photo
perfectly clear

Van Halen

Van Halen, circa 2004

Just got home from Philadelphia. I was caught in a quick hitting snow storm dropping one inch per hour on the 'City of Brotherly Love' - had to spend the night in a hotel and drive back today.

Quick post from the archives today.....Van Halen with Sammy Hagar - end of show in Pennsylvania in 2004.... Hershey I believe

Now for a nap....