Blood on the Tracks...

These photos are from an abandoned train near Troy, NY. The large Pullman car's metal infrastructure is staying together well, but as you can see the wooden caboose is rotting and decaying. Certainly, there must be an interesting story that led to this.

These images are from early June, really the last I was able to shoot and process before starting work at camp. If you are interested in seeing some of the work we do check out: http://www.kingsleypines.com/

At Kingsley Pines I am doing all of the video for this summer as well as some of the photographic work. Check out the videos section and the weekly album. Not much is online as we are in the heart of summer, but over the fall a lot of content that I've shot and edited will be on their website!

Frontier Town

These pictures are also from North Hudson, NY. The top two are from Frontier Town a very popular attraction from 1952 till it's closing in 1998. The items from the park were auctioned off in a 2004 tax sale and today part appears to be owned by "Gokey's Auctions". This website has a lot more interesting information on Frontier town: http://www.frontiertown.net/

The bottom three pictures are from the Frontier Town motel, a walked in a room that was unlocked and was full of construction materials and salvaged items from the motel. There was still art on the walls and mattresses like Frontier Town it probably just never reopened.

More to come...

Route 9 - Left Behind

While New York's route 9 may still be a main road for many, and the center of commercial activity in still active towns and cities from Beacon to Poughkeepsie and Glens Falls to Schroon Lake, in many areas it is a graveyard to an era that passed away decades ago. The photos above are from North Hudson, a town that relied on it's amusement park, Frontier Town, and the fact that the main north-south road in eastern New York ran through here. Since then the world has moved on and no longer notices places like these as they travel the interstates and take their vacations in far-away places leaving places like this to ingloriously fade away.

Now, this bypassed byway holds a looking glass into the past. A past before the interstate highway, air conditioning and commercial airlines ended the idyllic family vacation forever recorded in family comedy classics from National Lampoon's Vacation to the John Candy classic Uncle Buck.

I have several more images coming from this stretch of Route 9 between North Hudson and Schroon Lake, NY. Look for them soon...

On the Farm- Schagitcoke, NY

Another set of pictures from the farm of the wonderful Unc and Kris Brock. Kris showed me around for the better part of a morning and I got some great captures! Enjoy, more to come soon from the Adirondacks, Vermont, NY and soon Maine..

Borscht Belt Resort (cont'd)

Borscht Belt Resort...

Took a day off from finals week to check out an area of the Catskills known as the Borscht Belt.

I hope you like what we found as much as I do! Many more to come..

Rinaldi Flea Market

The Rinaldi Markets are a flea market started by Bill Rinaldi, far right, in Poughkeepsie.



People swarmed a van that was known to have "the Goods".

Bright and early, armed with cameras and caffeine.



We met many characters including Chip who has been involved with Flea Markets for 50 years and sells custom-made carpets.
The Market was also an international affair from a Yugoslavian man selling DVDs to a Mexican family making tacos and sopes.

Where were you at 5am on Mother's Day? Well, Robin and I got up and took these pictures. I think it was worth it!