Run of the Mill (!?)
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The adventures continue…
Sunday, we piled 300 lbs. of camera gear, accordions, Utilikilts, and petticoats into Nathan’s and Petra’s cars and drove to/from Portland, Oregon, and then further on to a tiny logging town called Vernonia. The mill there is crumbling and abandoned and was a breathtaking location for a shoot. I owe B. Zedan my right arm and a very large vegan cookie for sourcing it.
This place was like a church-its walls bearing graffitied hymns, its choir loft made of trees. The acoustics of the place were divine-each chord banged out of Magpie’s accordion and Nathan’s violin gently collided with the stone walls of the mill, the fall-off perfect. We’ve vowed to take The Ghosts Project there in October for a recording session.
We managed to avoid ticks and poison oak but misplaced some gear and had a brief run-in with the cops. The area was littered with blackberry bushes (free snacks) and goofy bunnies and ducks. So much cute.
The goal of the trip was for Magpie and I to shoot pictures for ANACHROTECHNOFETISHISM. We have very dissimilar photographic styles, so I am anxious to see the respective dynamics captured by each of our cameras in the show.
My set is here. I was pleasantly stunned at the brilliant color saturation of some of these photos. It helps that my friends are all extra-shiny, too.
Let me know in the comments if there’s a photo you’d like printed or you’d suggest for the gallery show.
Thanks!