Inside a Jersey pine barrens home...Tabernacle, NJ, 1968

Here's a shot taken in 1968 for a Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday

Magazine article about the 1000-square-mile expanse of dwarf pine

forest that covers much of southern New Jersey and the

descendants--they called themselves "pineys"--of European settlers who

once lived in the region's isolated hamlets and eked out a living in

iron furnaces and paper mills.

I like the way you use tonality that matches simple composition and subject matter. It gives a sense of passing time.

I like this a lot Bill. I like the name of the town too, sounds like something from a novel.

Thanks for the kind words, guys. Mike, it's interesting you mentioned how the town's name sounded like something from a novel. The pine barrens did have a kind of "stranger than fiction" character to it. And, curiously, the assignment I had from the Bulletin magazine was to illustrate an article about New Yorker writer John McPhee and his pine barrens article that went on to become one of his most successful books. Thanks again for stopping by. All the best...Bill

This photograph speaks volumes.  The tonalities are fantastic.  Shades of Walker Evans, I think.  But entirely your genius, of course.  This is going into my "Favorites."