Jay Ressler On Location: 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Final Project:

http://www.blurb.com/books/3772767

Thursday, November 8, 2012

More Carrie Furnace Photos

Crown at Sundown


Freshly painted

Last bit of paint

Grass on a balcony at twilight

Jim shooting to the end

Leah, more light on the screen than the scene

Locker Room

Painted Sky

Steps

Sunset

No. 9

Circular Bands

Deer Head

Deer Hiding

Puffing no more

From a golden field

LG in Love

Chipped paint on a piipe

Power Box

Return Tubes

Rivet Collar on Torpedo car

Broken Grass

Torpedo Car Wheel Set

Trough

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Craft and Vision, which publishes eBooks on Photography has just launched a quarterly magazine: PHOTOGRAPH. I haven't read the whole issue, but skimming through it looks promising as a source of good advice. I thought fellow students might be interested. There are some really stunning photos and interviews with top-notch photographers.
$8 per issue or subscribe $24 for a year (4 issues). Go to http://craftandvision.com.

Look at the first issue here.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Trundel Manor--Weirdness to Spare

Welcome

Pickled Mouse Fetuses on Kitchen Counter

Ready to Spring

Just when You Thought It Was Safe to Go in the Water

Here's Blood In Your Eye

Neptune Snoozing

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Class Project proposal

For my class project plan to showcase Arsenal Park in Lawrenceville. My tentative title for the project is Disrepair and Rejuvenation.

Arsenal Park is a central gathering place in Pittsburgh's largest neighborhood, attracting children, dog-walkers, ball players, bicycle polo players, history buffs, and July 4th celebrants. In recent decades a wading pool was a big attraction until it was drained. In an earlier period when the arsenal was producing ordinance, this pool was a repository for black powder sweepings.

Arsenal Park is a portion of the 40-acre Allegheny Arsenal that was opened in 1814 to supply the U.S. Army in the west. The arsenal played a pivotal role in supplying ordinance to the Union army during the Civil War. On September 17, 1862 an explosion occurred at the arsenal killing 79 persons, mostly young women. Overshadowed in history by the Battle of Antietam, which occurred the same day and which was the battle with the biggest death toll in a single day, the arsenal explosion exacted the biggest loss of civilian life during the war.

Mary Frailey Calland wrote a novel, Consecrated Dust featuring the incident that was published in 2011.

During the G20 summit in 2009 a large number of protestors gathered in Arsenal Park with the expressed intention of marching downtown without a permit. Police massed in force and dispersed the parade using tear gas and a sonic canon. (I don't intend to include this in the final project; I mention it here as a curiosity that I witnessed.)

During and following a 150-year commemoration of the explosion in September, a group of neighbors in Lawrenceville as well as officials of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundations called attention to the deteriorating conditions of the park.

I hope to enlist several people I know in the neighborhood to show how the park is used.

Here are some recent articles from the Post-Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/neglected-lawrenceville-park-finally-has-a-few-friends-654676/

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/death-from-neglect-654551/

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/lifestyle/with-allegheny-arsenal-explosion-as-background-consecrated-dust-blends-history-and-fiction-653536/

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/lifestyle/events-to-recall-arsenal-explosion-652935/