Coinciding with the Ken Burns series on the American Revolution was a visit yesterday to Tory Den. The den is a secluded rocky ledge with a “cave” formed by a giant slab of rock which slid down long ago. The spot is tucked away in the woods in Burlington, Connecticut, and can be reached by a hike on the Tunxis Trail.
There is history here. In 1777, a pro-British Tory named Stephen Graves found refuge in these rocks, avoiding capture by local militias. I wasn’t interested in rounding up Tories but I was interested in capturing some light.
While working on these pictures, I remembered Velox, a contact printing paper which was first made available to photographers around 1905. The blacks on that paper were bottomless when printing beyond the farthest gray.
JOHN TODARO 
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Many thanks Philip! 👋🏼
Hi John and you’re welcome! Wishing you a great new week…😊🌴🏄🏻♂️⛱😊
You as well ✍
Enticing cracks and crevices – BTW monochrome madness on Wednesday is leaves and petals – hope you have some left from here – or elsewhere
Thanks. I have a color group queued up for tomorrow, so a monochrome leaves theme will weave in there nicely
You write very well and it’s a pleasure to have the narrative alongside the images lately. The photographs themselves are a fascinating way of “talking” about a cave or a den. Those ground-level closeups add so much. Love the set as a whole!
Thanks. I liked the ground-level pair as well. For some reason, they bring a lot of “place” into the group
Absolutely!