September Program: Historic Water Mills of North America by Ken Boyd
We are delighted to welcome back Ken Boyd to the Huntsville Photographic Society. Ken was with us a few years ago when his previous book, The Art of the Locomotive, had just been published. His love of photography coupled with his outstanding Photoshop skills have produced some truly amazing images.
In December 2020, Ken Boyd’s latest book, entitled Historic Watermills of North America, was released by The University of Alabama Press. This large-format coffee table book represents more than 40 years of Ken’s research, study and photography and provides a visual preservation of these fascinating old structures along with descriptions, commentary, and perspectives. Ken has previously published two very popular and internationally distributed books on historic locomotives, entitled Historic North American Locomotives (Published by Kalmbach Media / Trains, 2018) and The Art of the Locomotive (Published by Voyageur Press, 2014). Total sales for the locomotive books have exceeded 35,000 copies.
As a 25-year veteran photography instructor at Samford University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham, his work, techniques and reviews have been published in numerous magazines and journals, including Camera and Darkroom, View Camera, Birmingham, Portico, Shutterbug, Shelby Living, Garden Railways, Hoover Sun, Over the Mountain Journal, Alabama Heritage, and technical and trade publications and journals, such as Power, Power Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, and Environmental Management. He is currently the editor for a historical newsletter, entitled the Mid-South Flyer, a bimonthly publication of the Railway amp, Locomotive Historical Society. In 2020, Alabama Heritage magazine published two feature research articles and photo essays prepared by Ken entitled: Industrial Revolution – The Locomotive Comes to Alabama (Number 137, Summer 2020).
He has recently signed a contract to provide a similar feature about preserving historic fire protection equipment in Alabama (Summer 2022).
Ken is a graduate of Jacksonville State University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham
and retired from a 37-year research and environmental affairs career at Southern Company.