Month: January 2016

Hope Webbing Co. Mill 999-1005 Main Street Pawtucket, RI The Hope Webbing Co. Mill was founded in 1889 and several buildings were added to this location over the course of the next 15-20 years. What remains, pretty much, occupies an entire city block. At one time the rear of the […]

Paramount Greting Cards 400 Pine Street Pawtucket, RI ———————————————————————————————————————————————————– UPDATE MARCH 15th 2020 Unfortunately several readers have contacted me stating that the old Paramount Greeting Card Company burnt to the ground yesterday. I’m very sorry to hear that and this is one of the reasons I try to preserve history […]

Pawtucket Train Station 9 Railroad Street Pawtucket, RI Pawtucket, RI is, what I would consider to be, an old Mill town. Spend an hour driving around the City and you’ll run into abandoned or re-purposed factories/mills everywhere. Most are situated in urban neighborhoods. Located just north on I-95 of Providence […]

HO Scale figurines (1″ tall).  Chasing down the bad guy. Photographed with Nikon D7100, 105 mm, f2.8 macro lens.

We’re fortunate enough to have our second contribution to this blog by my friend Ron DiCostanzo.  Back in June of 2015 Ron, along with his wife,  flew out to the area of Juneau Alaska which borders British Columbia Canada and hopped on a boat to try out his new Canon […]

Someone’s got to keep those pesky threads from growing out of control.

My friend Ron, (one of the best surf casting photographers you’ll ever find), treated me to a late afternoon birding session at a Stratford CT shoreline to photograph hawks.  This is an area that Ron frequents often and it has a lot of hawk activity while at the same time […]

As of late I’ve been rather intrigued by these photographers that photograph miniature figurines in natural settings.  So I went out and purchased some miniature figures at the local train shop.  These are 1″ tall figures that are used as part of the scenery in HO train layouts. This was […]