COMING SOON at the Waterbury Library


Photographs from the continuing series, "Brass Valley Made in America," will be on exhibition from June 3 to July 31, at the Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury,.


On Wednesday, June 19, in the library auditorium at 6:30 pm I will give a power point presentation of additional images from the book, accompanied by poetry and prose selections from it, and I will discuss discoveries along the tracks and in old industrial sites throughout the valley.



Monday, March 5, 2012

Scraping the Runner Box



PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL: When in place, the runner box directs the liquid copper to the two distributer cups. Before the billets can be lifted from their molds, the runner box must be moved out of the way and scraped clear in readiness for the next pour. The sparks are real, the magic, Promethean.