Towns are different with their unique look & styles.  Always at their beginning or at the edge there are junkyards taking care of the old until their recycled end.

Trucks and cars; tired and retired from there tasks lay dormant with their own memories of the heroic deeds.  For many years they have accomplished impossible tasks for man.  Their memories are starting to fade like the color on their skin.

Trucks, the modern work horses are the heroes we’ve used, wore out and left in a field to retire.  These steel marvels are more beautiful now than when shiny and new.   Amazing what time can do to metal and paint.  How the brilliant colors are homogenized with rust.  There is beauty in their patina, history and in their engine hearts.    …………………………Karl LaLonde

Karl travels with his camera through towns each different with their unique look & styles. Always at their beginning or at the edge there are junkyards taking care of the old until their recycled end. Trucks and cars; tired and retired from there tasks lay dormant with their own memories of the heroic deeds. For many years they have accomplished impossible tasks for man. Their memories are starting to fade like the color on their skin. Trucks, the modern work horses are the heroes we’ve used, wore out and left in a field to retire. These steel marvels are more beautiful now than when shiny and new. Amazing what time can do to metal and paint. Ho the brilliant colors are homogenized with rust. There is beauty in their patina, history and in their engine hearts.

Karl LaLonde is a photographer and a painter, living most of his life here in the Hudson valley. In high school he learned how to take pictures and the love affair continues today. He attended Dutchess Community College for Commercial art and BARD for photography. IBM offered him a job and he started working for them as an artist in their TV Studio in the sixties. He was directing and producing productions by age 24 and won several international TV awards. By 30 he was art directing. All this time, outside of the corporation, he was photographing, painting and showing, capturing the beauty of old trucks and the nature around us.