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Abandoned
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Challenge: Best of 2009 (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Ontario
Date: Dec 26, 2009
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2010

A house near Mount Forest in Ontario.

Statistics
Place: 215 out of 445
Avg (all users): 5.8359
Avg (commenters): 6.4762
Avg (participants): 5.7255
Avg (non-participants): 6.2692
Views since voting: 1040
Views during voting: 443
Votes: 256
Comments: 24
Favorites: 2 (view)


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12/14/2010 11:55:07 PM
Funny you should mention that Cole, I drove by there last month to get a shot of it and I noticed that. don't know how and why he'd bother with the condition it was in. This house on the other hand is on it's last legs, every time I go North and I pass it and it's worse. Hopefully I can get one more of it before its gone.

Thanks for the comment.
11/18/2010 05:34:51 AM
Nice
I have shot this old house as well
There used to be a great old wreck at Ravenshoe and Warden
But the guy is fixing it up ... drag
Cheers
Cole
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03/17/2010 01:16:54 AM
amazing! good luck on the night shot v!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/28/2010 11:36:41 PM
Don't get too close, my own favorite leaning house fell down recently.
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01/28/2010 07:32:08 AM
Love the distortion. It really fits against that mean looking sky.
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01/27/2010 10:07:39 PM
I love old structures like this, and it is so good to capture them before they are gone forever. Well done. Like the vignette. The winter setting adds to the melancholy feel.
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01/27/2010 08:40:54 PM
I'd love to see this in B&W with some harsher contrast and/or image grain.....6.....persoanl taste, of course.
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01/27/2010 09:42:29 AM
Amazing looking old house with almost impossible angles and slants.
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01/27/2010 08:49:23 AM
Looks like it won't last much longer...such a shame, but this makes for a very interesting picture...I like pictures that have an old abandoned feel to them
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01/27/2010 06:55:38 AM
The house needs a little more crispness to have more impact. 6
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01/27/2010 01:32:25 AM
like this a lot good luck
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01/26/2010 09:42:28 PM
That is definitely one warped and wonky abandoned house. Colors are good and composition while straight on makes this house interesting because it shows off the weird ways the house leans and the cloud cover seems to extend out from behind it. While a good shot - it just lacks something at would give this a little more umph; something that would make the eye linger that much longer. What that would be ....hmmm, one suggestion but definately not the only one is to create a mood or play up a mood. The title is abandoned, well the house is obvious but mood could be emphasized by footsteps in the snow that are facing away from the house. Or you could go the total opposite at go for a humor angle: place a "For Sale: Cheap" sign in front. Just one additional detail can add spice/mood to a photo composition. If you don't want the 'set-up' scene but want something natural then it might be harder for Mother Nature would have to provide something like say some dark and brooding clouds - it would give a dark and moody feeling to the shot.
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01/26/2010 08:06:50 PM
i like the isolation of the building. i get a sense of the stories contained within, the feet that traveled up the stairs, the windows open on a summer day.
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01/25/2010 01:18:59 PM
Man this is a scary pic of decay and how things deteriorate. Would have done very well in urban decay challenge this year. lacks a bit of sharpness in the trees around it. still a very good pic in my books 7
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01/25/2010 12:22:00 PM
sad little house.
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01/25/2010 09:35:08 AM
Very neat, that won't be around for too much longer. Excellent shot, great exposure, and the composition (although centered, which I usually do not love) looks really good. Nice shot.
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01/25/2010 08:58:17 AM
subject lacks wow factor...
01/24/2010 07:58:05 PM
What a great shot of a rickety old building! You've captured this really well, it looks like it's all twisted and bending in all sorts of different directions.

I like the clouds too, they all seem to run towards toe building, it gives me the feeling as if the building is actually alive and is going to get up any second and walk away!
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01/23/2010 09:01:47 PM
Neat house on the hill. The clouds really add a nice effect.
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01/23/2010 07:44:38 PM
Oh my, this one has indeed seen better days.
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01/23/2010 06:39:25 PM
Is it haunted? Neat find.
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01/23/2010 10:15:01 AM
Talk about foundation problems! The angle is very effective here. The house feels like an optical illusion -- or something out of an Escher image.
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01/23/2010 02:22:40 AM
Love the desolate feel here
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01/22/2010 05:44:42 PM
Good perspective and composition to put it in the middle. A great sky. I think this would score a lot higher with some dramatic processing....a bit of HDR maybe to bring out those clouds in the sky, some saturation and contrast.
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