NE OH Gathering, July 16-18, 2010

Clan of the Wooden Tripod

Ah to become an apprentice or dare say I a stable boy of the Clan of the Wooden Tripod. Me hopes I might join such a clan and rise to be knighted Sir DaLeeMan of the Wooden Tripod Clan.

Do we get to wear Kilts Too?

The Cult of the second falls.

JP

daleeman said:

Do we get to wear Kilts Too?

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Darkcloths.

Lee L said:

Darkcloths.

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Breezy, very breezy

One more image

Worked on this today. Made me wonder where all the graffiti and initial carving is on the bridge.

~~ Lee ~~
(those are little graffiti carvings by my name there or what happens when a dark cloth "kilt" encounters a strong wind!)

daleeman said:

Worked on this today. Made me wonder where all the graffiti and initial carving is on the bridge.

~~ Lee ~~
(those are little graffiti carvings by my name there or what happens when a dark cloth "kilt" encounters a strong wind!)

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Oh Lee, didn't you see the revolving cameras transmitting to the drone overhead? NASA Research is testing new variations destined for Afghanistan. I meant to warn you about defacing any of the bridge structure. Sorry.

Must add a note to te boiler plate. I wonder if that is why we haven't seen that couple again?

John

“Are there any abandoned buildings, cars, etc in your area? I assume there is some abandonment in Cleveland but I don't know enough about the city to attempt that without a lot of research and/or a guide.”

I received a PM today from someone interested in coming to one of our gatherings. It seemed like a subject of interest to many of us so I thought I would ask the group to comment in addition to my own list. Detail and directions would be helpful.

In our back yard there is a box trailer that came to me as a boat trailer in 1964. The 2x4x8 foot box was added to haul horse manure in the late 1970s. It has pretty much sat in our field the last five years. Dorothy did some really interesting Holga 120N with the Efke IR820 aura film shots at our May gathering.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djkloss/4615265668/

We live on the edge of my mother-in-law’s 87 acre property. She has two abandoned wooden buildings. One was a chicken coop. The other a tractor shed with an old tractor. There is also a semi trailer that was used for storage and has now pretty much rusted into a pile on the ground.

About a mile and a half from us is an abandoned Conway trucking freight hub and a circular dinner. There is a lot of fencing. I am not sure how close you can get.

This may be a stretch of the term abandoned, but I love the angles and textures, so here goes. About three miles down the road is a covered bridge. Over the years three trucks have gotten stuck under it. The state got tired of rebuilding and abandoned it to foot and horse traffic. Lee G took some interesting shots here.
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Hale Farm and Village four miles away is a made up village museum of original houses, stores and church from 1830-1865. There is also a saw mill, glass blower, black smith, etc. Buildings were brought in from all over OH and set up as a small village. There is a person in costume at each building talking about that build’s function. Tripods are not allowed, but hand held camera shooters may go wild.
http://www.wrhs.org/index.php/hale


For the last 2-3 years I have been hiking the OH & Erie Canal with the 7x17 in a baby jogger. I’ve made about 150 contact prints, thirty of which hung in Cleveland’s History museum for 15 months. The canal goes from Cleveland to the Ohio River through Industrial waste land, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, residential, industrial and farm land. The closest point is three miles from our house. I can show you prints of what I have seen and you can decide where to go. There are many abandoned locks and structures along the way. Here is a sampling
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php.../album.php?aid=3636&id=100000479112834&ref=pb

Last gathering there was some talk about a near by abandoned paper mill. It has been razed and only the main machine is left. It is fenced in, but some times the gate is open. Dale took this picture.
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

About six miles west of us there is a farm field with 5-6 old cars rotting away. They appear to be related to a restoration shop on the property. I have not approached the ownership for permission.

That is what comes to my mind. Who can add some more detail or new places?

Thanks,

John

Several abandoned and frightenly still active railroad bridges with layers of shedding paint and rusted metal and graffiti. My best shots were under looking up requiring 8-10 minutes exposures using HP5.

John

jp80874 said:

Several abandoned and frightenly still active railroad bridges with layers of shedding paint and rusted metal and graffiti. My best shots were under looking up requiring 8-10 minutes exposures using HP5.

John

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sounds like my kinda pic. I'd love to see this.

from the paper mill... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/4614645879_190746695b.jpg

now this is kool!

http://bp3.blogger.com/_DyPoB5_wHZ4...9Y0n-hdMqc/s1600-h/Hassy2BrassLens01small.jpg

here's the full web address:
http://kikamulitzlivno.blogspot.com/1976_08_01_archive.html

djkloss said:

sounds like my kinda pic. I'd love to see this.

from the paper mill... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/4614645879_190746695b.jpg

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Thanks Dorothy.

What I mentioned is on the towpath SE of an industrial section of Akron, just S of Summit Lake. I would be happy to take you there. I thought the light was better in the morning than in the afternoon.

I had seen the picture in this link but not understood where it was taken.

John

djkloss said:

now this is kool!

http://bp3.blogger.com/_DyPoB5_wHZ4...9Y0n-hdMqc/s1600-h/Hassy2BrassLens01small.jpg

here's the full web address:
http://kikamulitzlivno.blogspot.com/1976_08_01_archive.html

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The person who asked about abandoned places also shoots a Hassey. Maybe he will like this as well.

John

Hay all,
Im interested in the empty house/cabin that in shown in the gallery for the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society.

Before you click on the link, look to the left after entering the gallery and find Workshops: Tony Sweet Participants 09 (not just Tony Sweet)

http://www.cvps.org/gallery.htm

Lots of visual ideas here. Looks like they photographed this cabin I'm interested in and then were at the covered bridge if the pictures are published in time of event. Are they in the same area? Was there special permission to get into the cabin?

I like the idea of the rotting cars mentioned above in this thread. The village sounds interesting ("something" farm) but rarely amd I excited to see a bunch of running wild kids bored with the old stuff, the usual family station wagon vacation... showing my age again... "SUV croud with hand sanitizers."

I also hope to enjoy all other spots others are interested in. Expecially early in the morning.

Like to throw in a humble appeal to others to allow me to pose or catch others in candids or more formal poses too. I really love photographing people in nature. We seem to belong here too besides the trees, mountains and waters.

Really enjoyed Sunday's Breakfast!!!! Hope we can go back!

Lee

If you go west on Everett Road from the covered bridge about a ¼ mile there is an intersection with a road that goes north and connects with Wheatley Road. If you go further west on Everett Road about 100 yards or so there is a small cabin about this size on the north side of Everett back in the woods across a stream that judging by the gulley and debris, sees violent water movement. I have not seen a driveway or even a path to this cabin. I have never pursued it because I am allergic to mold and a small shaded log cabin locked up at the base of a large water system seems like a place for me to avoid. Whether that is your mystery cabin I don’t know. Where you would go to determine ownership and access, I don’t know.

I have had three 7x17 pictures juried into an annual show at the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society, but I don't have any contacts to pursue this. As you can see from the member pictures it is a mostly digital club.

John

jp80874 said:

If you go west on Everett Road from the covered bridge about a ¼ mile there is an intersection with a road that goes north and connects with Wheatley Road. If you go further west on Everett Road about 100 yards or so there is a small cabin about this size on the north side of Everett back in the woods across a stream that judging by the gulley and debris, sees violent water movement.
John

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John,
This sounds like our palatial palace. I'll see if I can treck up in there in July and take a look. It might be a mid day hike opportunity if it is overgrown with a lot of woods.

Thanks for racking the brain on this one. I'm on the hunt for places where we can visit.
Lee

Lee,

Those really are some great scenic pictures you have found, a good tour of the park at it's finest. Thank you for linking us to them.

John

Dolly and I were invited to an extraordinary show this evening. Peter Spangenberg is a member of an alternative processes group here in Cleveland. They have a show going on in the Plain Dealer lobby. For security reasons each artist was only allowed a very few guests. Peter was kind enough to include us at the opening.

For some time Peter has been showing us these gorgeous platinum 8x10 contact prints and modestly saying that these were the seconds, that he had had to put the best of his work in the show. I thought he was just being polite because I thought the prints he had been showing us were GREAT.

Well Peter can come out of the closet now. The prints in the show really were better. I thought the seconds were good, but these really glowed. Peter, I hope after this show closes you will bring the good stuff down to our next gathering. These are some platinum prints you want to see.

Oh, yeah, there were some other stuff there as well, you know 22x30 wet plate, Gum Dichromate, ambrotype plates, wet plate on black glass. Palladium prints. etc.

John

jp80874 said:

Dolly and I were invited to an extraordinary show this evening ...

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Sounds like an amazing show!

jp80874 said:

Oh, yeah, there were some other stuff there as well, you know 22x30 wet plate, Gum Dichromate, ambrotype plates, wet plate on black glass. Palladium prints. etc.

John

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Were these by local artists?

ic-racer said:

Were these by local artists?

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It is a local alt processes group run by Herb Asherman. I believe all the members are in NE Ohio, but I am not a member and have not seen the roster. I have seen half the names that were in the show also in the FAVA show at Oberlin each year, but of course that is a five state event.

With the way film and silver prints are going maybe they will include silver prints as alt proc next year and we can join. Never know.

John

jp80874 said:

With the way film and silver prints are going maybe they will include silver prints as alt proc next year and we can join. Never know.

John

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Yes. In fact from my stand point any analog photography is essentially alt process.

This is an analogy that you may, or may not agree with. I'll bet that in 1965 you didn't have much to speak about, automobile-wise, with the owner of a brand new Chevelle.

But today, if you had the choice of talking with someone who bought and kept a mint 1965 Chevelle or a guy with neon lights under his nitrous injected 2009 Toyota with 30,000 watt stereo, you'd opt for the Chevelle guy.

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Yes. I'll bet that in 1965 you didn't have much to speak about, automobile-wise, with the owner of a brand new Chevelle.

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Don’t bet too much. My first car was a 1951, almost black dark green, Buick Roadmaster, four door sedan, stick shift, that my parents had used for their traditional four years and then saved for my 17th birthday, March 30, 1957. The theory being, that the damage I might do didn’t matter because the car was already used up from their point of view. Talk about amortized.

The only saving grace was that they didn’t drive it at all the last nine months. When they went to start it in March, it wouldn’t. A mechanic came, spent a few hours and said that it wouldn’t ever. They were so embarrassed and honor bound by that quaint family tradition that a person’s word is his bond, that we went off to the Chevy dealer and bought a 1957 Chevy, red, convertible, stick, four barrel, dual exhaust, Police option heavy duty suspension. As far as I was concerned, God is a Gear Head.

John

Hi All,
We hit the magic moth of July today. looking forward to doing some more morning photography and seeing you all. I got the old hassy out and promised her we would go for an early morning stroll tomorrow. She wagged her neck strap and got all wound up and let her mirror down.

Lee

Taking Hassy for a walk

Well today's early morning walk ended up a little later than I thought. I was about 8:00AM before I got to go shoot. It was a nice time. Had the negs run and scanned them. Here is what I saw.

Looks great Lee. What day shall we expect you at the next event? Is your wife coming?

John