Sure I have a lot of influences.  And by influences, I mean people I steal from wholesale when I take a photo.  But there is only one photographer who I actually want to be.  Her name was Margaret Bourke-White.  She took iconic photos of industrial mechanical things and she had an office in the Chrysler Building while working for Life Magazine.  This is the woman who took those beautiful shots of the greatest building of the New York City skyline that included the Chrysler Building.  Because it was easy.  Because that was right outside of her window.  Seriously, how difficult could that have been.  Set up camera, go to work.

I felt similarly when I visited Venice.  How hard could it have been to be to paint the sunset over the Grand Canal?  I’ve never seen a more beautiful sunset in my life.

Anyway, enough of my complaining.  Let’s get to why we are here.  The photos and how exactly I hit the Margaret Bourke-White mother lode.  I, like Ms Bourke-White, do not have to stray far from home to find something amazing.  In my case, I went up the street to the Waterworks Museum.  What I saw there, well, I’ll let the images do the talking: