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| Newberry's, North Adams, Massachusetts, 1996 |
On one of my first visits to North Adams, Massachusetts,
I was roaming Main Street with my camera in hand. I was about to snap a picture of one of the old façades, when a man
suddenly appeared in my viewfinder. I asked him to move out of the way for a second. He replied, "Sure, no problem, but
I can’t imagine why you would want to take a picture of anything on this street." I
just smiled. I viewed his remark as a compliment, because I don’t like to go around taking photographs of stuff that
everyone else thinks is beautiful or interesting. If I am going to go to the trouble of taking thousands of pictures, I may
as well try to portray the things I see that others don’t see. After all, isn’t that the point? The empty Newberry's is one of my favorites. I have a 20" x 30" hanging in my living room. Click
on the photo to enlarge it. Most of the photographs in this gallery are shots
of ordinary scenes: houses, mills, streets, doors, windows, signs and empty storefronts. They are the commonplace
things that most people walk by every day and never notice. Once
in a while, I capture something beautiful and extraordinary, too. As a writer and photographer, I make it my business
to notice everything. Click on North Adams Photos
below to see more than 200 of my photos of North Adams. Click on Other Photos to see many photos taken
in New England and other locations.
Almost all of the photos on this site can be enlarged by clicking them.
North Adams Photos
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