Silos, grain elevator, feed mills are just some of the names of the structures in this project. Have always been intrigued by these structures without knowing much about them, but they are the catalyst for a larger project I refer to simply as Before They’re Gone. There are a few of these structure in my hometown, Fort Worth Texas, that are destined to be torn down. They are as much of the landscape and many other buildings and when they are gone it will only take a generation or two before no one will remember them other than in photos. So photographing them has become something I am doing. This has inspired viewing more subjects, because one only needs to look at street view on mapping software and realize that what is on that street view last year, last month or even yesterday the view provided by the mapping software does not exist anymore. There is one piece that is somewhat startling, and that is the assoication between the silos and the railroad. It is quite often the case that the rails for a train are no longer there. The view from above with the mapping software will sometimes show where the rail line used to be, but at a street level you can see the rail is now gone. Looking back at the Texas Church Project, one of the reasons for photographing those old churches is they can disappear as a result of fire, storms to lack of use because the church congregation decreased, maybe the entire town/community moved on and left the buildings behind. Some churches have been sold and converted into a home. If they are photographed and the images are shared, then the place is not completely forgotten and when someone ask where did they go or what did they look like there will be some instrument of that church/building/location. Just like a parent, grand parent or even great grand parent, there is that image to remind us of who they were and what they looked like. By documenting with film or printing from a negative it is very important to print those images. If they only exist on a cell phone they may not live on, however I do have photographs of relatives long passed that are easy to view.