Here is one of a series of pictures I took documenting the demolition of three grain silos at the port of Salem NJ (you can see the silos as they original were in a nice picture I took of a sunrise, here: “Dawn colors over Salem NJ”

The twisted metal of the fallen silos gave me an opportunity to play with the composition and select portions of my original picture to show what I like and saw in my mind. It is certainly a personal preference but, many times, I shoot wide angles and then select portions I like rather than crop and compose with my viewfinder (click on the picture below for the original version). Of course, I do compose with my camera all the time, although I think wide angles are rich.

I have a whole series of these pictures (I took about a hundred of them from different angles) The picture below is just one of the original photographs.

Here is another version I cropped from the same original and rendered in B&W.

Here is a tower that use to be used for the processing of limestone. The place is Salem, NJ. I understand the towers may be demolished soon so I wanted to document them before they are gone. The textures to be found around the site are simply amazing.
Since I know some of you will wonder how it would look like in B&W, below is such a version. Just click on the thumbnail.

I had to stop and take this picture… I was driving home from work and I saw these giant mushrooms growing in a cemetery by the side of the road. The scale of the picture does not give a good idea of the size of the fungi but they were about 10 inches in diameter (some 25cms)… 🙂

Not sure what this and the other hatchway are. They are at Fort Mott in Pennsville, NJ. It is a very old fort that is now a State Park. I believe these “windows” are to pass supplies into the fortification if and when they were in lockdown or in an exercise drill. There are no cannons remaining in the fort but the place used to house some of the biggest guns in the East Coast of the U.S.

I took this picture last weekend at a yard sale. A friend of mine buys “storage units’ in default of their rent and all kinds of items are found there. Many times, boxes full of photographs. This was just one of them. While I was there, a girl , about 10 years old, bought the picture for $0.25. She will use the frame for some of her own pictures. A memory, a moment in somebody’s soul, will be lost forever…

Little warrior…

Taken June/10/2006 at Salem County Fairgrounds, NJ