The photographs in this newsletter, plus other photographs since the last newsletter, can be seen at the "New Photographs" Folder on my website, which is here. They are also duplicated in their appropriate Folders/Galleries. The photos are much larger on the website than in this newsletter.

It's been a while since I've talked about Mysterra. A national-level photography reviewer told me I needed more of a story for the photos. It took me four years to figure out what to do with this advice.

I asked fine friend Tom Walsh, who is a poet amongst many other things, if he could do a poem for each of the photos. We collaborated closely, but the poems are truly his.

I then created three short eBooks called flip books, where you can see a left page and a right page and turn the pages with your mouse.

They are ready to share with you. Be sure to click away the ad at the bottom and view full screen.

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Here is one of the featured photos that you might remember.

I'm clearly drawn to trains and old machinery, and have reorganized the website to bring such works into a Folder here.

This latest Gallery is called Lock 10 Dropgate Controls, with only three photos of varying angles of a drop gate. Towards the end of canal construction, canal engineers heard of a new-fangled European gate called a drop gate. They tried it out on a select few locks, and found that they significantly improved lock-through times as well as needing only one person to operate. The drop gate is a door that is hinged on the bottom that can fall down to the bottom of the canal and later be raised with a spoked wheel. Levers were used to open and close little doors to let water flow between levels.

My objective was to capture the nuances in the textures of the various metal and wood components through detailed black and white tonal control.

These can be seen much larger here.