Abandoned Photographs Found in the Streets of Detroit
In 2009 and 2010, Italian photographers Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese walked the streets of Detroit on a photographic mission. They set out to find lost, thrown out, and forgotten photographs of the city’s past. Their collection eventually grew to include ‘thousands...![Harleys on the Susquehanna [featured]](https://allenmowery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/harleys-on-the-susquehanna-1.jpg)
Harleys on the Susquehanna [featured]
Last month my wife and I had some time sans kids to get away for our anniversary — a couple days, no plans, just taking it as it came. On a whim, we decided to stop off and ride the old Millersburg Ferry across the river. As the only car on a craft full of...
My Photography Utilized in Local Feature
This past Sunday, our local newspaper, The Daily Item, ran a story on the cover page of their special At Home section featuring the newly-constructed, energy-efficient home of area residents Craig and Christine Richard, using a selection of my photography for the...Allen’s Vintage Retro – A FREE Lightroom Preset
I was recently searching for a particular look for a series of photos I had shot, but I wasn’t able to find anything that was already out there from another photographer or retoucher that closely matched what I was visualizing in my head. So, what do you do when...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.