“KENDREW DISTRICT 8”

  I used to travel to Upstate New York quite frequently.  My friend Erich Hadfield has over 250,000 78 rpm records piled up in two barns about 20 minutes apart there.  After I purchased my TL-120 I started taking it on my record buying trips instead of my Realist.  This photograph is one of a series of shots of an old abandoned boarded-up school house.  On the side of it is a large pentagram-type star.  I was drawn to this school house because of all of the history, memories and stories it contains.  I tried to imagine what this place was like when it was operative and thriving.  I like the depth between the viewer and the school house, but I’m not crazy about the soft foreground grass.  I’m considering re-mounting this one in a cardboard landscape mount (if I can get my hands on one) and masking out as much of the soft-focus grass as I can.  I shot this on Ilford Pan F Plus, and it was processed by dr5.  I shot the roll at whatever ASA his site suggests for this film.