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Rounding out the weekend of exploring, we visited the Newark State School, an abandoned collection of buildings which served people with disabilities. Some of the buildings on the campus have been re-purposed and are being used but many remain abandoned and continue to decay. [...] Continue reading Newark State School Andrew and I had been planning to spend the weekend checking out different locations and doing some photography & exploring. On the 23rd we kicked off the weekend by stopping by several locations in Rochester. We started with what is known as the War Store but it seemed to be falling apart rapidly. Parts of the second floor, which I’m told was the most interesting part, had fallen down to the first floor. Apparently the second floor had been questionable for quite some time and the collapse was probably recent. We looked around for a few minutes but I didn’t take any photos. We didn’t even take much time to look through the concrete silos next door before continuing back to the car. [...] Continue reading Rochester Incinerator There are many ways to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a country. China’s history has certainly been interesting so it’s no question that a camera that would be nearly $30,000 in the states is the only thing really fit for the moment. For more than 3x the price of the plebeian MP you can get a gold plated Leica MP complete with red calfskin in a lovely wooden box. This of course does come with a very nice gold plated Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 lens as well. [...] Continue reading Proving bad taste has no budget: Leica MP Golden Camera. Happy 60th China! Sunday the 10th of January was the first local explorers get-together of the year, or at least the first one I made it to. Most of the crowd consisted of people I hadn’t met before including a couple from Syracuse and one visitor from Buffalo. I had brought my friend Dan and Andrew was supposed to be there but he hurt his back shoveling snow and falling down stairs. [...] Continue reading Exploring Mt. Hope Chapel and Genesee Brewery I had previously mentioned that I would be providing more information on a recent experience with Black River Imaging. Unfortunately those books were holiday gifts to family and I wound up not having the time to do the sort of review I wanted before giving them to family members. Once again this is more of a placeholder promising a future detailed review of the process and results. I will say that they were very fast with my most recent order. [...] Continue reading Update on bookmaking with Black River Imaging On January 2nd Bruce, Kristin and I went to International Boiler Works in East Stroudsburg, PA to do some exploring since it was conveniently located along the way back to Rochester for me and was only about an hour from their home. The entire factory is pretty bombed out and we could find no paperwork or any other sort of historically significant indicator to tell us when it was abandoned while we were there. [...] Continue reading International Boiler Works Having just gotten back from vacation I’m still catching up with everything and fending an overly affectionate cat off of me every time I try to type anything. I’ve got a few things to work on including photos from a factory I visited in Pennsylvania and some discussion of my recent bookmaking experience (which isn’t over yet). [...] Continue reading Coming soon: camera bags, factories and more bookmaking 
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