#victorian

During my time working on documenting the restoration of Bloomfield manor I also did some artwork based upon photos I had taken of the house. Some of these works were drawings and others were digital manipulation of various photos. These other projects were less about the house itself and more ab...

Eventually spring rolled around, and my graduation would be very soon. It was 1992 and I was hard at work on my senior thesis. That ended up being a slide show documenting the restoration of the house that was set to music. Plus a display of artifacts from the house. Being that this was a…

As my senior year began, the restoration of Bloomfield manor was well underway. I had now gotten into doing color photography and so I could take advantage of sunsets and other lighting situations. I was also doing other art related to the house, including drawings, paintings, sketches and digita...

To this day I still don't know what it was that drew me to Bloomfield, nor what was it that made see it a different light. But as I continued to photograph it as time went by, I felt as though I had begun to develop a bond of sorts with the aged mansion. So…

I continued my nocturnal exploration of the old abandoned house.  Having checked out the ground floor, I carefully ascended the main stairway. Being that this was a very decrepit looking house, I wondered if the floorboards were rotted and if I might be in danger of falling thru. But the stairs, ...

Up until now most all of the truly epic and important things and places in my past I've mentioned have often been sinister and unnerving in my mind, in addition to being compelling and even awe inspiring. But there have been others, including one place that was almost magical. This location I stu...