I have become very interested in photographing the 'unnoticed'; abandoned buildings, artful graffiti, etc.
When the spouse and I were young-marrieds, we took a lot of 'get lost' drives and he has a 35mm Minolta and lenses. We have albums full of places that are not in existence now. Considering barely 25 years have passed in some cases, that's surprising and sad to me. I'd considered going through all those albums and scanning everything, but there's something to be said for the slow disintegration of these same pictures. Wistful yet the past that they represent somehow seems more meaningful in that slow process. Hard to describe, really.
When my children were infants, I got the idea to videotape them every day for 5-10 minutes and did this for over two years before the taping waned and fell back to just 'events'. I also went everywhere with that camera. I have a comet on one tape, a huge fire and explosion-things that made the news when they were happening, but long gone out of the collective consciousness.
I plan to continue doing my sets of the 'mundane'-there's the old Boy Scouts national headquarters here that's been abandoned for years and will probably be torn down, so I want to somehow get on that property and start clicking away. Who knows? Maybe someday some people will have this nice book of photos on their coffee table "Forgotten History of New Jersey"
