Panoramic 3

I showed you the other 2 panoramic images that I have done so I might as well show you the last one that I have done. This is the one that I did while I was a student at OIP&T. It is also my favorite of the 3 panoramic images that I have made. This one is made of 12-13 images stitched together. I'll finish this post later, I am going to go watch 3:10 to Yuma with my wife. I'm back, the movie was pretty good, I didn't really like the ending but it was still a good movie. So, I was going to tell you more about this image but I am tired so I am not going to say much. This image was shot with a Canon Digital Rebel, this building was my favorite place to shoot. I say was, as the building is no longer standing. About 70% of the building was lost in a fire and the rest was demolished shortly after the fire. The last images I took of this building were of the fire and demo of the remaining part of the barn. It was a sad day. Well I hope you have enjoyed my panoramic images. I am going to try and do another one soon, I promise, as soon as I get it done, I will make a blog post about it.

Photoman

Dilapidated

I love old abandoned buildings, they are my favorite place to shoot. I know I say that about a lot of different things or places, but I really mean it about old buildings. I love to go into a building that hasn't been occupied in years and see what was left behind. It is like a history lesson in a way. I guess it could be considered rudimentary archeology, well not quite but it is the closet I'll ever come to archeology in my lifetime. This all seems so dejavu to me, I think if you look in my archives you will probably find another post where I talked about abandoned or dilapidated buildings. Yesterday was my 50th post so I can't remember exactly what I have and have not written about in the past posts. The image that I am showing you in this post is one that I have on my stock photography website. It happens to be the one image that has received the most comments of all of my stock images, so I thought I would share it with my loyal readers.



This image was taken in a building not too far from where I live, no it isn't one from the campus where I live. This building is a part of a local University not far from where I live. I noticed it many years ago and I had often wondered what they were going to do with it. I knew that I would eventually get into the building and have a look. One day a few years later I drove by the building again, I had forgotten about it. I was surprised to see that it was still sitting empty, I knew that I needed to get in and shoot it before they demolished it. I have missed many opportunities to shoot in old buildings by procrastinating and when I decided to finally do it, the buildings were gone or being renovated. For example, the town that I grew up in had an orphanage that sat on about 250 acres of land. On the edge of their property sat an old water tank, it was very cool and would have made a great photographic subject. I had wanted to photograph it for years but I never felt like there was any hurry, I mean where was it going to go? It was always there and I thought it would always be there, I was wrong. In 2004 I decided it was time for me to go and shoot the water tank, when I got there it was gone. The orphanage had been closed for a number of years and the property had been sold. The new property owners tore the water tank down to make way for a retirement village. That is just one of too many missed opportunities that I could tell you about. I have many success stories that I can share as well, but a missed opportunity like that can never be had again. Well I need to get this post finished I still have to get a message to my good friend Todd Kuhns in South Carolina. Hey Todd there's your link.

Photoman

Country Home for rent.

I shot this image last spring during a photo competition. I didn't end up using the image for the competition but I had a hard time ruling it out. After seeing my competition I wish I had used it but as they say "hind sight is always 20/20". This brings up a question that I often wonder about, just who are "they"? Well that is a subject for another time, back to the image of discussion. I really had a hard time deciding whether or not to include this image. I really like the gray and brown colors of the post and vines contrasted against the blue sky. The hint of yellow and green from the flowers add some visual interest to the image. I wanted to enter this image into the photographers choice category but I chose an image that was technically a much harder shot than this one. Unfortunately the winning image had no technical merit to it at all, it just happened to be the prettiest. However, I did win 1st place in the human interest category, maybe I'll share that image in a future post. This is my first post and I hope to write a new post each week. I will be traveling to France and England in January for 3 weeks and I may not be able to post while I am gone. If I get the time I will definitely share some of my photos before I return home.

Well enjoy and feel free to comment on my images or my blog.

Photoman