{"id":18438,"date":"2015-03-31T03:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18438"},"modified":"2015-03-31T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T07:32:11","slug":"storm-drain-near-gateway-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/31\/storm-drain-near-gateway-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Drain Near Gateway High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Storm Drain by Tina &amp; Joe, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/16768471820\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8739\/16768471820_92a52d5a3d_c.jpg?resize=490%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Storm Drain\" width=\"490\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a minor course in photography. We had to shoot the photos as well as process the negatives and make prints. I don\u2019t recall what the particulars of the class assignments were although I can tell from looking at the negatives which were the assignments and which ones were shot just to finish off a roll. The shots to finish a roll are usually more interesting than the contrived, <em>arty<\/em> shots. While my fellow students mostly resided and shot their photographs in the vibrant metropolis of Philadelphia, I lived and did most of my shooting in and around the staid and solid small town of Westville, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been reviewing these negatives while scanning them, I remember shooting most of them. This one I don&#8217;t remember shooting, but obviously, I must have shot it. At first I assumed that this was near the pond in Westville, but once I scanned it, I recognized the facade of the building in the background as belonging to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gateway_Regional_High_School_%28New_Jersey%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Gateway Regional High School<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. I&#8217;m not sure why I was wandering the fields around the school snapping off exposures of Pan-X film. I probably wasn&#8217;t sure why I was wandering those fields back then either. As I&#8217;ve written before, I was waiting for inspiration to strike me. Until it did, I wandered and shot and hoped I&#8217;d wind up with something worth printing. I did, but it took me a few decades to realize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a minor course in photography. We had to shoot the photos as well as process the negatives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/31\/storm-drain-near-gateway-high-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,2093,3340],"tags":[33,148,158,3490,122,137,118,480,336,121,3489],"class_list":["post-18438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-photography-2","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-148","tag-analog","tag-gateway-regional-high-school","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-photography","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-westville","tag-woodbury-heights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4No","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20089,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/10\/the-fall-of-1982\/","url_meta":{"origin":18438,"position":0},"title":"The Fall of 1982","author":"Joe","date":"December 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I think this is somewhere near Gateway Regional High School late in 1982. 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