Finding beauty, decay, and unanswered questions in Yorklyn’s ruins I visited Yorklyn De, where there are ruins and abandoned building galore to explore. Here is a place where the bones of industry still jut out from the earth like ruins of some long lost civilization. Hidden in the hills along Red Clay Creek, the village was once a thriving mill town, loud with machinery, smoke, and the constant churn of industry. Now it feels suspended somewhere between history and haunting. Brick walls crumbling and trees growing where they don’t belong. Rusted gears sleep in rooms and in fields. Empty windows
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Gardens, history, and the stillness left behind I recently spent time exploring the DuPont estates in Wilmington, Delaware; Winterthur, Hagley, and Nemours. In a way, Hagley started all of this for me. I visited it last year while traveling through on my way to Tennessee. I tend to leave room in my trips for unexpected stops, the kinds of places you stumble across without planning to. Hagley was one of those places. What I expected to be a quick visit turned into hours wandering through buildings, gardens, workshops, and the beginnings of the DuPont story. Before the estates and elegance,
Bethany Beach I’m starting this first post of this series of posts from my trip to Delaware on the last day of my trip. We got up before sunrise to go to the ocean side of Bethany Beach. There’s something a little ironic about that. The trip was ending just as the day was beginning. While everything around me was starting fresh, I was standing there at the finish line. I was packed, the van loaded and I was dreading to go home. Camera in hand, we arrived just as the entire sun rose above the horizon. But that was
I feel I’ve always been a Creative. I started with photography. In my early 20s I went to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Where I took several classes for the creative and technical sides of the camera. Then I built a darkroom in a spare bedroom and took classes around that part of this creative medium. Then the digital era came upon us and transformed the medium, in ways that I could never even have imagined. For several reasons I was slow to embrace it. The cost of entry was very high back then; I didn’t even
My Education Syllabus for 2024 Description: I’d like to develop a creative skillset that will nurture and develop a creative lifestyle, to include photography in digital and analog forms. Apply other genres of creativity i.e., watercolors, encaustic, acrylic paints, pastels, or any other mediums that will feed my creative self. This will be accomplished with pursuit of videos, books, projects, and critiques. What I hope to learn: How to live photographically creative life Intermediate Photoshop skills Advanced Lightroom use Mixed media art utilizing my photography Readings and resources: Books Camera manuals Sony alpha a77ii, David D