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Man, the trouble is We don’t know who we are instead One of my favourite bands is Jars of Clay, on their fifth studio album; my favourite album cover is “Who We are Instead.” The cover features the band in front of these old silos; I was drawn to this as a fan of abandoned buildings. When a fellow band fan noticed on Facebook that I was passing through Nashville, TN, this past week, and my original planned photo for week 16 was stopped by a paranoid sheriff, she pointed me at the actual silos. Sadly, I realised that the image on the cover isRead More →

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So what do tractors and a never completed nuclear power station have in common? Well nothing really…except in the case of a small station somewhere in the volunteer state, better known as Tennessee. The power station was one of many that were planned by the TVA through the 1970s to bring clean, efficiant power to the southern United States. Of course as a student of history there were several accidents in the 1980s that really turned the world view on nuclear power in a negitive light. Chernobyl in the former USSR and the Three Mile Island incident in the United States. Then there was theRead More →

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This one is for my friends at Kodak! Despite Ektachrome being cancelled in 120 and 35mm formats, I happened to find a decent sized stash in the back of my stores, mostly E100VS. Over the Easter weekend I had a chance to go south to Tennessee, and one of my stops was the towns of Bristol. Why towns? Simple there are two Bristols, one in Virginia and one in Tennessee, and they share a common downtown along State Street, as the name implies is the State line. When I stopped in on the town on my way down I was quickly rained out, but MondayRead More →