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01/17/2008 03:21:48 PM · #51

Hello everyone! I've been out of town for a few days so it looks like I have some catching up to do! Looking at the thumbnails there are some great photos! I did manage to take some shots for my project and will post soon.

Welcome Sherryl! Certainly you are welcome to join us and since it isn't a timed side challenge there is no catching up to do! Can you narrow your project down any? Maybe floral macro or insect macro, and give me a number of total images that you will try to capture? Remember this isn't timed so you can get as specific as you want. Also, you can use previously taken shots if you want.

01/17/2008 03:26:32 PM · #52

Ok, here are some more of my churches:

This was a very small little church called Shiloh Baptist Church.

I don't know the name of this one, but I liked the fact that the "dinner on the grounds" area was bigger than the church LOL!

New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

Redbone Church I'm not sure what denomination this one is, but don't you just love that name?

BAMartin

Apple iPhone 5

01/17/2008 05:32:47 PM · #53

Sorry guys... Getting married tomorrow and I have been a little busy.

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This was taken in my favorite town that time forgot, almost a ghost town. This is part of the closed mining operation.

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Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Macro ED Zuiko Digital

01/17/2008 05:53:46 PM · #54

Originally posted by BAMartin:

Sorry guys... Getting married tomorrow and I have been a little busy.

Congratulations Barbara! Don't worry about not being able to submit or comment..just drop in when you can and keep plugging away at your 15 - 20 photos...there is no hurry!

slaakso

Olympus E-510

01/17/2008 11:48:52 PM · #55

Congratulations Barbara. It is no wonder you have been a bit busy. I hope you have a beautiful wedding day and a wonderful honeymoon.

01/18/2008 02:04:36 AM · #56

best wishes to you, Barbara, on your wedding day.
I'll look forward to greeting you with my contribution
of San Francisco architectural features posted
to this side-challenge upon your return after your
marriage.
Alice

01/18/2008 05:29:09 PM · #57

Wishing you a happy wedding Barbara and a great life together.

Getting back to the barn images here is one from the same farm where I got the previous image. Again I had to use the telephoto to get this one. This barn was located right next to the one in the previous image. This one appears to be in good shape and seem to be still in use. It is located on an active farm. If you look closely you can see a tractor hidden behind the trees on the left. So apparently this farmer has decided that at least one of his barns is worth keeping in reasonable condition.

The next three images will be of a barn within walking distance of my house. I have been watching it go down hill the last few years. Of course if it snows, and I can get a good image of a barn in the snow, I just may change my plans on what image to post. It snowed yesterday, but by this afternoon when I got off work most of the snow was gone.

01/18/2008 10:04:22 PM · #58

Here is the first of my San Francisco residential architectural details. We are pretty good on
domes and turrets in this City, so I've mostly concentrated on them.

01/19/2008 10:19:06 AM · #59

Originally posted by sfalice:

Here is the first of my San Francisco residential architectural details. We are pretty good on
domes and turrets in this City, so I've mostly concentrated on them.

I'm looking forward to this set. I've been to SF all of once for four days, and while I'm not a city person, I enjoyed the place. This set should be good - there are lots of strange houses around, so I'm expecting to see some real oddities.

01/19/2008 03:32:22 PM · #60

Here are a few more from my Architectural Detail series.
Can you imagine having the room just under one of these architectural decorations? Wouldn't it be fun!

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01/20/2008 11:15:52 AM · #61

this installment brings more of the architectural delights of San Francisco.

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01/20/2008 04:35:24 PM · #62

This Barn is located about a quarter mile from my house. I have watched to deteriorate over the years. When I first moved to the area it was being used actively to dry tobacco. But times have changed. Very little tobacco is grown around the area any longer. Slowly the barn has gone down hill. Over the last few years I have watched as boards have fallen from the side of the barn and as pieces of the roof have blown off in various storms.

Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II

01/21/2008 10:28:28 AM · #63

These are the doors to the barn I showed the image of yesterday. They have fallen off their hinges and rest against the side of the barn. Looking through the doors you can see through the roof of the barn where the metal roofing has blown off, you can also see through the back of the barn where some of the boards are missing. The vines growing on the doors are poison ivy. Judging by the size and age of those vines the doors have been sitting where they are now for a number of years. Frequently you will see these old barns when they are not cared for surrounded by trees and covered with various vines. This one is no exception.

This is the "official" 15th image in the series. So I'm now half way to my goal of 30 images.

sulamk

Canon EOS-60D

01/21/2008 10:33:26 AM · #64

hi ihaven't forgotten my bird project but it has been raining non stop here, and havent been able to get the pics I want for it!

01/22/2008 01:41:30 PM · #65

Here are four more in my architectural detail study. These are the easy ones; the ones without electrical or telephone wires dangling nearby. I never realized how much of San Francisco's wiring was above ground until I started this study.

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01/22/2008 04:37:43 PM · #66

This is the same barn that was the subject of the last two images. I was standing on the side of road looking up the hill that the barn is sitting on. I felt this gave another view of the sad shape that this barn is in.

And I managed to get out yesterday and get another round of images of some of the barns. So I am not in danger of running out quite yet. I am trying to keep the posting to one a day, just so I don't get too far ahead of most of the crowd. I may have to speed that up a bit as I am in the overlap side challenge in February.

01/30/2008 11:09:11 AM · #67

Hello fellow themed free study challengers! Sorry I have been kinda out of pocket for a while. My mom and dad were visiting from Texas last week so I didn't have much time to post or comment. I have some more church shots that I need to process and will try to get those up soon. I've enjoyed getting caught back up on comments.

Sandy, take your time on the birds and wait for the good weather! It doesn't matter if it takes you a while to get all your bird shots...just that you keep working on it and update us when possible....

01/30/2008 02:59:03 PM · #68

Hey,

jasonlprice, thanks for stopping by and commenting on all my architectural detail shots. I especially appreciate the note about cropping. Such details are, sadly, not my strong suit.
A couple of people have commented on those bird spikes in this shot:

They are hard to see, but appear to be a rather ingenious method of keeping the pigeons out of the rafters so they don't redecorate the pretty facade.
I'll have some more detail shots later today, I think, if time permits. They're in the camera/computer.

01/30/2008 03:34:17 PM · #69

Thanks Alice! Another shot that facinated me was

. It is amazing that those are just "fronts". It almost looks like a movie set or something...are there real houses behind the fronts?

01/30/2008 04:30:53 PM · #70

Jason, this is one case where movie sets actually have some relationship to reality. All over the west there are false fronts, stores, houses, the lot. The first set of false front buildings I showed were beautifully designed and painted; others are more mundane. for example:

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No matter what they look like in front, they all still seem to have the same clapboard sides and rear. But you pretty much can't see the sides because another house is placed against it.

San Francisco is a small town, geographically, only 7 miles by 7 miles and space is at a premium. For the most part, except in the oldest sections of town, or the wealthiest, frontage is about 33 feet or even 25 feet with a building code that allows about one inch between buildings. So houses, are for the most part, townhouses built right up against each other.

Um, This may be more than you wanted to know? :-))

01/30/2008 05:02:16 PM · #71

This barn has such a nice setting, back from the road in the field and near the trees that I will be sorry when it is gone. And I am afraid that will be in the not too distant future as along the road there is a sign announcing a new housing development for the area. I have known new owners to keep these old barns, but most of the time they do not survive the developers.

BAMartin

Apple iPhone 5

01/30/2008 05:24:09 PM · #72

Sorry I have fallen behind, I have no really excuse.

This is another view of the old abandoned sugar beet warehouse. I understand from one of the neighbors that the woman who owns this was offered lots of money for these old bricks. Either she choose not to sell, or the building can not be demolished for the bricks because it is on the historic register. I continue to visit once a week and am talking to more and more neighbors.

01/31/2008 12:33:16 PM · #73

Barbara, remember that you can't get behind because there is no time restriction....How's married life treating you?

Here is another church and I've included the sign with this one just because I thought it was an interesting name. I won't put it on the final poster though.

01/31/2008 05:34:26 PM · #74

I want to thank you all for the good comment you have been giving. I am having fun with this little endeavor. I am also finding so many barns that I may just decide to do more than the original thirty image I planned on. This posting is image number 18 and I already have the next ten images planned and I keep finding new barns.

I found this old barn about twelve miles down the road from my home. There were lots of signs saying no trespassing, but I was able to get this image from the side of the road. There are quite a number of barns that are located some distance from the road that are very hard to get close enough to enable getting a good picture.