ConstructionNightmare


 * Jenelle Erickson's Bittersweet Photography Adventure**

My exploration into digital photography was both fun and bittersweet. I have a 35mm camera and love taking photographs of architecture, plants, animals, and anything else that suits my fancy. I found that by using the Kodak EasyShare CX7530 I was able to manipulate photographs in ways that I had never been able to before. I missed the zoom lens of my 35mm, but cropping, enhancing, and using other photo manipulation tools at PXN8. com was quite a treat. I chose to photograph a construction site at the Greenwood Park Mall in the southern suburbs of Indianapolis. I photographed my old workplace being torn down - LS Ayres. I worked there for six years and it is bittersweet to see it torn down.



This was the entrance to my area of the store. I cropped it to eliminate some of the parking lot and black tarp blocking the public out.



This is the same area with a demolition vehicle that has just parked in front of the structure after ripping out the bowels of the building. I cropped and tilted the photo.

This is the landscape view of the demolition. A construction worker was leaving the site and was kind enough to allow me an inside the tarp view for photographing. It has been cropped and color enhanced.

This is another landscape view from the road that I have heavily cropped and given a sepia tone. This is the view from the road and I had to raise my arms and shoot blind in hopes that I would get a good shot over the black tarped fence.

When I stopped photographing the site I thought I might be disappointed at the quality of the photographs. The camera does not have the functionality of my 35 mm and it does not filter sunlight very well. I found it difficult to see how the photographs were framing up because the sunlight was so bright. However, digital manipulation has really helped the presentation of the photos.