The Fitchburg
Shootout
Oct/06/08 04:11 Filed in:
Photo shoots
The perfect Fall
weekend. The foliage not being at its peak, but warm
enough to to have a fall BBQ: Lamb wrapped in steak,
grilled to perfection. Came with a delicious,
significant amount of red wine. Well, later that
night, the phone rang and I agreed to a photo shoot
with Ian the next morning. Shortly after the alarm
clock went off and, after meeting at the Mall, we
were to off lovely Fitchburg, Massachusetts. We drove
around the downtown area until we found something
that caught our interest.
We
ran into this half abandoned business area right on
Rt. 31, a few miles past downtown just past Waites
Corner. We spent the next couple of hours wandering
the grounds and looking interesting and obscure
things. It was a pretty cool location and offered a
lot, I think. Train tracks, Silos, old buildings,
loads of rust and plenty of weed. A heaven. It would
have been good to be there maybe half hour earlier,
but how early can a human being get possibly up? But
after a few hours exploring the grounds, even tracks
and rust can become boring.So we drove towards home
again, passing through Princeton and Sterling.
Somewhere there on the way we both saw the Old Mill.
The sun shining
through the trees onto a pond inhabited by an entire
duck clan. Foilage, a pond, ducks and a mill. Of
course we stopped. Most of the ducks were doing what
ducks are doing. But one of them had a blast at the
waterfall: standing in front of it, jumping towards
and into it and back and just quacking as much as a
duck possibly can.
And yes, that feisty
duck.... thing was pretty cool. He went after us and
was hissing wildly. And he (he looked like a male
anyways) was pretty tough to catch on chip because he
just jerked his head around. Or I am just too slow. A
little typical "New England romantic" to close the
session...
See the venue and
some shots here.
Tags: Massachusetts, Fitchburg, Photo Shoots, Photography, Urban Decay, industrial Photography
