I was up in Orono when I chanced upon a vintage auto boneyard. The owner was not in, but I was allowed to roam around without my camera. I left the yard & stopped at the end of the road when a car turned in & stopped, the driver rolled down his window and looked at me. He said: “Oh, you’re not who I thought you were.” and I said: “No, but I think I know who you are; you own the auto boneyard at the end of this road.” He did, and I asked if I could photograph the yard. He was reluctant, like many of the owners of old car boneyards, but I told him what I was looking for aesthetically & mentioned that I had a portfolio with me that I would be glad to show him. He got out of his car & I laid out my work on the hood of mine; he approved and allowed me to shoot. Orono 35 is a shot of a car hood (late ‘60’s, I think) that I found laying on the ground just as I was wrapping up the shoot because it was beginning to rain which contributed the dark areas.
Sadly the yard has since been crushed as many have been; not many vintage boneyards are left, especially in the Northeast.