Feb022009
Landfill landscape
Filed under General, Scenic Photographs by bob hammerstrom at 3:25 pm
I “bagged” a nice scenic shot at the dump in Rochester last week. Garbage - who would think that there would be such beauty, standing on top of millions of tons of decaying garbage?
As writer, Dave Brooks and I hoofed it (our tour guide’s truck got stuck in a drift) to the edge of the landfill to photograph methane gas wells, I noticed interesting patterns of dirt and “stuff” wind-whipped in a snow drift. The drift was hard enough to walk on.
The contrast of the white snow, and “stuff” caught my eye quickly, and reminded me of the “good ole’ days” of black and white photography. I had recently photographed Howard Denton, a Nashua photographer, who shoots strictly black and white. I could have shot this photo in monochrome mode with the Canon EOS-1, Mark III, but my hands were frozen and I didn’t want to change the camera mode. So I took it in color, and changed the photograph to black and white in Photoshop.
I miss seeing the world in gray-scale, and it’s easy to do in the winter.
-Bob Hammerstrom
bhammerstrom@nashuatelegraph.com
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