3.06.2009
Weekly Shoots
We would like to schedule a shoot a week at various type of locales and time of day now that the weather is getting warmer. Please send in your suggestions and I'll put it on the calendar. Let's start off with keeping them within a 50 mile radius of the beltway.
Urban Decay
These links provided by Joshua Dunn.
Braddock Pennsylvania (this is the towns homepage) is the steel town that has been slowly dying since the 70's.
The coal fire underneath the town that I mentioned is Centralia PA. There are many websites that cover this town, here are a few:
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/centralia.htm this site has a message board
http://www.pahighways.com/features/centralia.html scroll halfway down this page and watch the you tube video
http://www.thetownthatwas.com/ A documentary about Centralia.
Times Beach was a town that poisoned itself with Dioxin trying to reduce the dust on their dirt roads. The town had to be abandoned, and after years of cleanup by the EPA and hundreds of millions of dollars its now a state park.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-TimesBeach.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/times/index.htm
Braddock Pennsylvania (this is the towns homepage) is the steel town that has been slowly dying since the 70's.
The coal fire underneath the town that I mentioned is Centralia PA. There are many websites that cover this town, here are a few:
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/centralia.htm this site has a message board
http://www.pahighways.com/features/centralia.html scroll halfway down this page and watch the you tube video
http://www.thetownthatwas.com/ A documentary about Centralia.
Times Beach was a town that poisoned itself with Dioxin trying to reduce the dust on their dirt roads. The town had to be abandoned, and after years of cleanup by the EPA and hundreds of millions of dollars its now a state park.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-TimesBeach.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/times/index.htm
April 16th Juror Talks
VisArts juried photography exhibit "How You See It" in the Kaplan Gallery on the 3rd floor. Juror, Frank Goodyear Curator of Photography for Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, will give a talk 6:30 pm.
2.16.2009
Meeting March 5, 2009
The Large Format and Alternative Processes meeting will be held during the opening reception of VisArts juried photography exhibit "How You See It" in the Kaplan Gallery on the 3rd floor.
The opening reception will be held from 6:30 - 8:00.
The opening reception will be held from 6:30 - 8:00.
2.02.2009
1.13.2009
Dave Stovall Exhibit at Delaplaine, Frederick, Maryland
Dave Stovall has a solo show at the Delaplaine, 40 S. Carroll St in Frederick during January and February. Runs until 1 March. 16 images, all shot with large format 4x5 transparency. http://www.delaplaine.org/Exhibits.aspx
1.09.2009
January Meeting Highlights
Studio Shoot at VisArts with model. Plans for group shoot at Franciscan Monastery later in March/April.
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