Old Things,Farms,Barns,Buildings, Plus

[Jmarmck]

Massachusetts, December 2014
Sinar P, 240mm Fujinon A
4x5 TMY, D-23

I am having trouble with the hinge arrangement.
Nice shot. I like the contrast bwt the siding and hole.

[Ken Lee]

I am having trouble with the hinge arrangement.

It may be a building used to cure tobacco: the walls can be opened to provide ventilation. There are many tobacco barns in my area.

[Andrew O'Neill]

I call this one the Wagon Trail.
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It's close to a historic mining town in British Columbia, Canada.
Almost underneath it there happens to also be a pretty impressive waterfall I'll have to post another day.
On my side the cliffs are even more nasty, so I don't do as much exploring around the area as I would like to.

Shot on my Burke & James 5x7, with a Rodenstock 300mm f9 apo-ronar lens.
Then drum scanned

Near which historic mining town? Thanks!

[Jmarmck]

It may be a building used to cure tobacco: the walls can be opened to provide ventilation. There are many tobacco barns in my area.

Ah, that makes sense. The hinges are only for one board.
I hardly ever see tobacco down here. In my 10 years here, I think I have seen only one field albeit a large field.

[Liquid Artist]

Near which historic mining town? Thanks!

The Greenwood, and Phoenix, British Columbia area.
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/bc/phoenix.html

[Peter Lewin]

Ken: I keep coming back to the tobacco barn image, which means it is striking a chord with me. But I'm curious about your artistic decision to allow the key-stoning; because we're view camera users, I expected corrected verticals. Did you simply prefer the image this way?

[Ken Lee]

Ken: I keep coming back to the tobacco barn image, which means it is striking a chord with me. But I'm curious about your artistic decision to allow the key-stoning; because we're view camera users, I expected corrected verticals. Did you simply prefer the image this way?

A bit of front rise reduced the converging verticals, but not entirely. Hopefully we feel that we're looking up.

The building leans over a bit and that effect was maintained for the same reason.

One of the charms of the view camera is that we can make an entirely faithful rendering when required or we can apply aesthetic effects according to taste.

In some ways this whole thread is about what the Japanese long ago named Wabi and Sabi.

[captainscot]

Wisner 5x7, 12''Artar barrel, Fp4 in DDX 1:9

[jp]

A bit of front rise reduced the converging verticals, but not entirely. Hopefully we feel that we're looking up.

The building leans over a bit and that effect was maintained for the same reason.

One of the charms of the view camera is that we can make an entirely faithful rendering when required or we can apply aesthetic effects according to taste.

In some ways this whole thread is about what the Japanese long ago named Wabi and Sabi.

The greeks built the parthenon with a little perspective distortion too, perhaps to enhance the feeling of looking up.

I like the dark sky and hard shadows... The vent/door sort of mocks the midcentury-modern architecture of tall thin windows too, like people would commonly have beside a door.

[northcarolinajack]

We made a visit to my daughter’s new home Thanksgiving and were pleased to fine she had room to display my mother’s old Singer sewing machine.
The photos were made with an old Graflex RB using HP-5 processed in HC-110. Both cropped a little.