{"id":19050,"date":"2015-06-18T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=19050"},"modified":"2020-05-28T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:01:50","slug":"eagle-point-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/06\/18\/eagle-point-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Point Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Eagle Point Refinery by Tina &amp; Joe, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/18903468432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/362\/18903468432_aa30c94017_z.jpg?resize=640%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eagle Point Refinery\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a>Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other <strong>illustration majors<\/strong> 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 a lot more interesting. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Westville,+NJ+08093\/@39.8610751,-75.1383475,14z\/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89c6cf913267241d:0xa7086335a8b8b088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Westville, New Jersey<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured above is the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eagle_Point,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eagle Point Refinery<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>across the Delaware from Philadelphia.<\/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\/06\/18\/eagle-point-refinery\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3340],"tags":[33,148,355,158,3601,1563,122,3599,3669,137,118,3600,336,121],"class_list":["post-19050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-148","tag-35mm","tag-analog","tag-fuel","tag-industry","tag-new-jersey","tag-oil","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-photography","tag-refinery","tag-vintage","tag-westville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4Xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17899,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/the-photo-elective-king-richards-tavern\/","url_meta":{"origin":19050,"position":0},"title":"The Photo Elective &#8211; King Richard&#8217;s Tavern","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a course in photography. 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