Old Things,Farms,Barns,Buildings, Plus

[ndwgolf]

This is my first posting in many years here on the LF Forum. I used to have an 8x10 B&J Grover monorail, but sold it and had since then acquired a 4x5 tailboard and I have a 5x7 Kodak 2D on the way (should be arriving tomorrow). I plan to "re-engage" in my LF activities much more now.

Here's one of my last efforts with the 8x10 Grover, with a 305mm Carl Meyer Anastigmat, Arista.EDU 100 film in HC-110B. It's the Crown Farm in Gaithersburg Maryland a few years ago before it was taken down and developed into an expanse of townhouses, restaurants, and shops.

Very nice

[cobbu2]

Thank you Neil! I’ll be doing more soon.

[swmcl]

I think it might be the workers dunny.

Taken at what was I believe an original homestead of a governor of New South Wales. Back in those days toilets were external to the houses but, being a governor's residence, I would've imagined his toilet to be inside but I don't remember seeing it.

[John Olsen]

Nice, wasn't this the "outback"?

[swmcl]

John,

The locality is called 'Jennings' I believe, in northern NSW very close to the New England Highway. This is not what we would think of as 'outback'. It is a rural farming kinda community thereabouts.

'Outback' is probably 1000km inland for what you are thinking. It is actually hard for me to specify 'outback'. I actually don't know what it is!! To me the rural landscape slowly becomes more and more desertified I guess as you move inland. The pastoral businesses get larger and larger because it is harder and harder to make a living from the land. Some people think Sydney is rural!!

Sorta like on the way to Death Valley I guess.

[John Olsen]

John,

The locality is called 'Jennings' I believe, in northern NSW very close to the New England Highway. This is not what we would think of as 'outback'. It is a rural farming kinda community thereabouts.

'Outback' is probably 1000km inland for what you are thinking. It is actually hard for me to specify 'outback'. I actually don't know what it is!! To me the rural landscape slowly becomes more and more desertified I guess as you move inland. The pastoral businesses get larger and larger because it is harder and harder to make a living from the land. Some people think Sydney is rural!!

Sorta like on the way to Death Valley I guess.

Sorry, that was a bad pun. In the U.S. one might refer to such a structure as an "outback." Someday I'll have to come explore and learn more about Australia.

[Leigh]

In the U.S. one might refer to such a structure as an "outback."

I believe "outhouse" was more common for such structures in the US.

I've only heard "outback" used to refer to central Australia.

- Leigh

[Tin Can]

We had an unheated double hole outhouse in Northern Wisconsin when I was a kid.

Fast work in winter.

[Liquid Artist]

Wagonwheel in a Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada outdoor museum.


This machine seperates nuts from the leaves at a nut farm.
Another Kelowna outdoor museum

They still use it.

Both shot on 5x7

[Jehu]

How about a couple of guys starting up a 1913 Pierce Arrow in tilt-shift miniature?