June 23, 2006
Staging Seurat Photo at Beloit's Riverfront
We're going to try and make this famous painting by George Seurat come to life on the banks of the Rock River in Beloit Saturday, July 1st at 3:00 pm. (The rain date is Sunday, July 2.)
Email has gone out asking for volunteers from the Friends of Riverfront group to help stage the scene. I'd also like to see other photographers - the more the merrier - help photograph it so we have a better chance of successfully capturing the scene.
This will be a 'modern' scene, so wear normal stuff. It'd be nice to see some of reds and browns and dark tops as seen above.
I have no idea if this will work and I'm not sure I have enough camera to pull this off, but we're going to try and make it happen.
Email has gone out asking for volunteers from the Friends of Riverfront group to help stage the scene. I'd also like to see other photographers - the more the merrier - help photograph it so we have a better chance of successfully capturing the scene.
This will be a 'modern' scene, so wear normal stuff. It'd be nice to see some of reds and browns and dark tops as seen above.
I have no idea if this will work and I'm not sure I have enough camera to pull this off, but we're going to try and make it happen.
June 17, 2006
Fairbanks Flats
In the early 1900's - during and after WWI - these apartments were built for African American laborers migrating from the south to work in factories in the north. Due to WWI, there was a scarcity of labor in northern industrial towns like Beloit.
These were originally called "Edgewater Flats" but later became known as "Fairbanks Flats" because people living in them worked at the Fairbanks plant on the other side of the Rock River.
IIRC, this is now a historic site, commemorating Beloit's sorry history of "defacto segregation."
This was 60 years before Henry Avenue bridge existed, far from Beloit's city-center, and relatively isolated from Beloit's then-existing neighborhoods. Today, this is prime river front property and the question pf the day is, "What should we do with these vacant uninhabitable buildings?"
Before sewage treatment and abundant leisure time, river fronts like Beloit's were an eyesore of dirty factories (water/steam power!) and foundries, a stinking swampy mess of human and industrial waste.
My how times change.
Stitched from 4 frames using Autostitch.
These were originally called "Edgewater Flats" but later became known as "Fairbanks Flats" because people living in them worked at the Fairbanks plant on the other side of the Rock River.
IIRC, this is now a historic site, commemorating Beloit's sorry history of "defacto segregation."
This was 60 years before Henry Avenue bridge existed, far from Beloit's city-center, and relatively isolated from Beloit's then-existing neighborhoods. Today, this is prime river front property and the question pf the day is, "What should we do with these vacant uninhabitable buildings?"
Before sewage treatment and abundant leisure time, river fronts like Beloit's were an eyesore of dirty factories (water/steam power!) and foundries, a stinking swampy mess of human and industrial waste.
My how times change.
Stitched from 4 frames using Autostitch.
