photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory
Jack’s House
Tom Clore, pausing at my request, looks towards Jack’s. Tom is seated on an International H, the rig to the right a home crafted spray rig.
On the most basic level, dairy farming is easily understood. The sun runs everything. The weather, the seasons, the crops, the dairy herd-all are sun driven. Jack’s house faced east. The orientation wasn’t accidental. The rising sun blasted inhabitants out of bed. After 8 score and ten years of operation— the patterns of life and work that existed on the farm had no difficulty whipping me, the 1975 resident and newest employee, into shape. Laziness, in any form, was universally scorned by Rosni workers.
Author: WmX
I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.
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