It’s the same story from Saskatchewan to the Texas panhandle. At the moment, the plains are back in charge, especially west of the 100th meridian where the middle of North America is filling up with ghost towns. The plains are the least photographed part of North America–a fact which is even more astonishing when you realize that they represent about a third of the United States.Īs I’ve written before, this is a place which is currently reexamining a number of historic assumptions–having had a lengthy quarrel with invading Europeans. My companion took no pictures, but I was engaging the question. Once you get into this part of the country you begin asking yourself, “Now what do we do?” As usual, we were out on the greyest roads on the map. The abandoned house was discovered after an afternoon of zig-zagging through the plains. Nowadays they’re stored in the basement in a shoe box near my record collection. I could travel light and shoot without a tripod. I liked them both because they were undersized. I also owned the 645S–similarly designed with the addition of a “roll bar”. In both cases, the capture involved archaic weaponry: a roll of Kodak negative film and an obscure 120 film camera. For this one, it was the Fuji 645W, an odd plastic camera known for its unusually sharp lens. I’ve queued up another image from the archives–one with a similar story to the glowing gate from the previous post.
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