I haven't been out to a coffee shop or similar in a few months. Actually since Labor Day last year. I'm not sure why it's definitely related to being under a lot of stress. Even though I've tried I haven't actually been able to go in anywhere but I hope by the summer it's nice to go especially this.

summer 🐶

a shoe house

Vitrolite tile and other corner storefront architectural styles in Baltimore (photos from c. 2015)

Instant prints from a survey of 1970s school architecture in Baltimore County. This style originated with the innovative ideas in the design of the Crow Island School that had small child-scale classrooms with direct access to the outside, a huge change from the ponderous older style.

Baltimore, Locust Point (c. 2014). Silo Point development. (Chamonix 4x5" field camera with 90 mm Nikkor lens on Fuji peel-apart instant film.)

Sample images from a re-photographic landscape project along the Susquehanna River of areas that had been surveyed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1801. He produced wonderful watercolors. Some locations are essentially the same. Others have power plants or housing developments.

Hampden, Baltimore

Sometimes I think back about NYC in the late 1980s and early 90s when I was in college, and think, was that real or am I exaggerating in my head about how it was in Morningside Heights and Harlem and the subway and walking to Columbia at night? Or even the meatpacking district a scary ghost town.

4 room mini motel in Wildwood, NJ (4x5 in. instant print taken with a Chamonix 4x5" field camera).

Le Corbusier inspired "pilotis" or pylons for the terrace and minimalist car ports in a Doo Wop motel in the Wildwoods, NJ

Doowop style motel in the Wildwoods, NJ

In the Wildwoods, although a bunch of amazing structures were demolished to make way for generic condominiums, there is still a great concentration of examples of seaside motels from the height of the automobile era of family vacations in the decades after WWII.

Views of Spring Grove, PA. The paper mill has a distinctive cabbage smell that I think reaches down into Baltimore at times depending on atmospheric conditions and the wind.

Motels in Wildwood, NJ

Baltimore Bike Party

When you walk through the city and feel like you’re being watched 😻