Old Dead Factory

[larrydressler]

Recently While viewing a presentation of Gene's I commented on how I

have always tryed to only shoot the better parts of my town and

ignore the parts that are dead.

It got me thinking and I went out and shoot a few shots of the Old

ACME Boot Company in Clarksville Tennessee. The factory closed down

over 15 years ago when the factory was moved to Mexico and then part

of it burned down 3 years ago.

 

All shots were done with a Kiev 60 on Konica 50 then converted to BW

in Photo Shop Elements. With some cropping and sharpening with

resizing.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=311647

 

Larry

[j_sevigny]

Larry,

 

It's always good to take a walk on the other side of the tracks. I like the second pic the best,

the one with the lens flare. Keep up the good work.

[OCULUS New York]

I like #2 also. What do you suppose a boot factory kept in those silos? Or is that part of another property?

 

Sad shots, all to common in the northeast (textile mills, and some shoe factories).

 

Cheers,

Ray Hull

[doug grosjean]

Nice pics, enjoyed them all. I am curious as to why a shoe factory would have what looks like grain silos.... but it could be to store something else in them. Not meant as a criticism of your work.

 

Old factories tend to be haunting (to me), thinking about the people and activity that went on there, folks retiring, having birthdays, growing old there day by day.... I work in a factory myself, in engineering, and we have a lot of abandoned factories in my local area (Toledo and Detroit). So I tend to really hear the ghosts clearly in those places.

[larrydressler]

The Silos are part of another factory that is close by. It was once a Snuff plant and they held ground up Tobacco to make the Snuff.

[gary_meader]

I, too, am drawn to subjects like this. I'm lucky enough to live in an area where original

homestead buildings are still standing on farms, and I just love to get into these beautiful

structures and 'feel' the past lives there. One difference, tho, is my taste runs to the

smaller scene, maybe 25 sq. ft or so as opposed to long view portraits of this great

subject material. Nice work.

[doug_foster]

I'm really drawn to the grungy, seemingly unstudied look of these pictures. (Of course some real thought has gone into them!) So many photos submitted in this forum, and elswhere, are so exquisitely done that something offbeat is a nice relief.

[larrydressler]

Doug

 

Well I thank you very much.

 

Larry