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Zenda Sequence Images: Town/Freeze Frame Snapshots
Pictures of the Town of Zenda were both difficult and not difficult to define and capture in the time allotted to completing the task on a car trip to the location: a nice, sleepy town, with a nice bar, on a rainy, overcast day, when there was nothing to do but take photographs of it all and then come home to think that it would make the perfect setting for a good thriller novel.
The shoot divided itself into three principal parts: the railroad, the town and the farmstand road entry. Following the Ghormenghast theme, which actually I'd been developing for at least 5 or 10 years, whenever the situation wanted to present itself, there weren't too many or too few pictures to take.
The central focus of the shoot was the abandoned church, with the flagpole gazing on in the distance of this gloomy day, nearing around Thanksgiving of the year 2000. After that picture was established, the entire city seemed to sink from view, with wonder as to what the history of the town with the abandoned church in it might actually relate to. I also took pictures of the bar across the street, but I didn't think it satisfied the conventions of Ghormenghast well enough to feature. So, the town, which actually had a few buildings to it, plus houses and the post office and the bar, centered around the lost church theme: the lost church, the post office, the shipbuilders' house, and nothing more. It would prove to be an interesting combination if "The Deadly Eighteen" would ever be finished (as it has not been in 2001), on a location site only a mile away from "Swamp Angel Road"!