Sights & Sounds
Photography & Music
Sights & Sounds
Photography & Music
About The Sights
Sights 1 - Desolation
I have only recently come to realize that I have been looking at the world through the lens long before I ever had a camera in my hand. I have so many childhood memories of just bike riding around my neighborhood and suddenly would become halted by a mesmerizing setting. I would look at these scenes as if it were a photograph already. Any moving objects would become still, all the ambient sounds seem to just fade away.
For some reason my eyes always seemed to be drawn to abandoned and desolate sites. I don’t know why, but there is something about the beating a structure endures by “Mother Nature” & “Father Time” that fascinates me. Besides the weathered decay, I love the way nature starts to take over again as you see the weeds growing through every possible crack in the pavement, overtaking a walkway or completely surrounding a building until it is barely visible anymore.
“Mother Nature” and “Father Time” are actually the true artists. Besides the variety of vivid colors and textures used on their personal canvas of life, they modify the original artists’ designs. A building left alone in their care takes on many changes over time. They decorate it with plant life, as foliage surrounds and enters it. Separating the bricks and pulling down beams and pipes to create abstract art as they change the structures design. They will highlight colors as they shift the temperature to peel layers of paint of years past, almost resembling leaves. The years of “Mother Nature’s” tears eroding concrete and rusting metal to new forms.
Sights 2 - DeRailed
A continuation of Desolation, but the focus is only on the abandoned LIRR Rockaway line in Queens NY. Though ridership has been basically none existent over the decades (aside from us urban explorers) there may soon be commuters returning to these tracks and platforms. Though the idea have been talked about for many years, there are plans to turn this site into a Queens version of Manhattan's High Line project called The QueensWay. Please visit their site to find out more.
Sights 3 - A brighter side
Just a collection to show that there isn't only a darker side of me. As I was searching for more desolate abandoned sites, I would stop and capture random settings I found interesting in the active world around me.
I did... at some point and from time to time... capture people. That all started when I was asked to take pictures at a party, which led to a wedding and random family/friend moments. The next thing I know I was taking pictures of models.