This might be my favorite Glenwood shot so far. I actually shot two of this identical image - one with my hand shielding the sun from the front of the lens, and this one. The glare was so intense I really didn't know what I'd gotten until just today when I opened it up.

This feels to me as though the building's past is looking through a porthole into its own future. Or perhaps view from the perspective of ghosts milling around the building. Very surreal, very hallucinogenic.

Yes, comments are f'd up at the moment. Sorry.

I really only wanted to get one shot while at Glenwood Power Station, and yesterday was it.... but the place was riddled with rust, peeling paint, broken glass, twisted steel, mud, grime, and graffiti - all the things I can't resist shooting. That being said, this building has inspired many other photographers to risk injury and arrest in exchange for images of the historic interior, so I was looking for atypical views of the place that still documented the monumental decay and conveyed a sense of nostalgic sadness and danger.

I'm off to Philly and Baltimore for the weekend. Amazing places to abandoned structures, but I'm not sure I'll have any time to do so.

As I'd said in my previous post, I think SmallFormat's days are numbered. It's just too much work to get it to work correctly, let alone change the design to my liking. Rest assured any comments, though they won't show up until I manually approve them, are received.

The days of SmallFormat may be numbered. I've grown frustrated with it, as have those who have tried to commented recently. I'm looking for a platform that will allow me to more easily change site design and has better built-in spam filtration.

This is Glenwood Power Station. Once generating power for the New York rail system, it now stands abandoned. There's been talk of redeveloping it, but it'd be a massive project. The place is practically falling down and there isn't an inch that isn't covered in rust or corrosion. If I'll post more about this place in the coming days, be it here or at a new site.

"Yes."

The process of bringing this from mundane picture of a wall to rather interesting abstract composition made me feel like a bit of an archeologist. The years of ads, most of which have been scraped away, were faded to the point where they were hardly distinguishable from one another. Adjusting each individual color channel, though, pulled the colors apart, making each campaign somewhat more identifiable.

I think my obsession has rubbed off. Nate loves both posing for and taking photographs. Just after this when we went inside the Little Red Schoolhouse, he rather confidently grabbed my Nikon D300 and started shooting (rather good) pictures of his pre-school classmates. Just as I was in the middle of being surprised that he knew where the shutter release was, he drew the camera away from his face, hit the "play" button and started scrolling through the shots he just took. My dad has almost the same camera and he can barely figure out how to do that. Nate is 3. Later that day, my sister (his mom) had shown one of the "still life" photographs Nate composed. He put his favorite teddy bear sitting up on the kitchen table sitting next to a pot of flowers, carefully centered, then took a few shots. I wish I'd started that early...