Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. April 2023.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. May 2023.
Still trying to decide whether this one is going to make the final cut into the project.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
137 followers · 250 posts · Server federated.pressWith the release of Photoshop generative fill and other AI tools, I figure I should note that my photography is of real stuff unless otherwise noted. My #OmahaSprawl project wouldn’t have meaning if it was all made up or half fabricated. I see my work as occupying a quasi-journalistic space. I do clone out dust spots on the sensor and use AI tools to help select sky to modify its exposure, for example, if it’s really blown out.
Imperfection is part of life, I also embrace it in photography.
Michael Kilby · @kjm
32 followers · 238 posts · Server zirk.us@sbphoto Me too, right now I've been focused on the wind turbines. I really enjoy that #OmahaSprawl is telling a story that is so local, but general enough that many people will understand it and relate. It's midwest American development. I see my town in these images too.
Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. May 2023.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. West Omaha, NE. February 2023.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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At 174th Street in west Omaha, an old red brick two lane highway emerges from between two glitzy looking car dealerships like a ghost. It ends unceremoniously at an intersection, cut off by new development and the Dodge freeway.
This old bit of road is a remnant of the Lincoln Highway, one of (if not the first) transcontinental highways in the US.
Read the whole blog post at https://sbiessel.com/remnants-the-lincoln-highway-in-omaha/
Image: the old Lincoln Highway. April 2023.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. West Omaha, NE. February 2023.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl series. Sidney Buchanan’s sculpture “Tree House with French Doors” looms over new developments in west Omaha. I believe this sculpture used to sit in the Gene Leahy Mall in downtown Omaha before being moved west. February 26, 2023.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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"Spring and Summer are coming, and with it, harsh sun to bake shade-less streets and homes. And new laws which promise to wash that American Dream away with the spring rains."
New blog entry on my #OmahaSprawl photo project up:
https://sbiessel.com/early-2023-in-west-omaha/
Image: new housing development near Elkhorn, Nebraska. February 26, 2023.
#UrbanSprawl #Photography #NewTopographics #LandUse #LandscapePhotography
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. February 2023.
#NewTopographics #UrbanSprawl #Photography #Suburbia #LandUse
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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Trying this out out for possible inclusion in the #OmahaSprawl project. Not sure if it's going to make the cut yet. This project is really tough for me to choose images for. One thing that continues to surprise me is just how close these developments abut major power line corridors. January 16, 2023.
#Omaha #Nebraska #NewTopographics #Photography #UrbanLandscapes #UrbanSprawl #LandUse
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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There's something bleak and oddly quiet about much of new suburban #Omaha.
A missing part of this project might be the people. Who are they? What are their hopes and dreams?
Certainly this project is complicated. I started it in part to react to just how quickly farmland and former prairie is being gobbled up on the city's outskirts. But there's also the human side. These new homes represent new opportunities. Places to raise families.
#omaha #newtopographics #photography #omahasprawl #nebraska
Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. View of the field at Davis Middle School, which opened in 2013.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. January 16, 2023.
#NewTopographics #UrbanLandscapapes #LandUse #Nebraska #UrbanSprawl #Omaha
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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#OmahaSprawl project. May 29, 2022.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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A new addition to my #OmahaSprawl project. This chunk of land in West Omaha contains a small maze of roads, all set to support new homes. In the meantime, grasses and other vegetation have started returning to the once-prairie landscape. As I walked these roads, I was surprised at how many birds fluttered in and out of the grasses, presumably feeding on seeds from last season.
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Shawn Biessel · @sbphoto
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From my #OmahaSprawl series. January 17, 2022. A road connects new housing developments near a power line corridor.
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sb_photo · @sbphoto
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From my #OmahaSprawl series. January 17, 2022.
I feel drawn to documenting the sprawl occurring on the Omaha outskirts. This is not a "fun" project by any means, but it feels important. I've also felt quite challenged to find compelling images. I feel that this one might be successful. The homes cresting over the horizon kind of haunts me.
#photography #newtopographics #landuse #urbansprawl #sprawl #nebraska #omaha
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sb_photo · @sbphoto
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From my Omaha sprawl project. May 29, 2022.
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