rlemert
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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While I'm not a complete newbie to this forum (I have commented a time or two on other people's photos), this is my first attempt to post any pictures of my own. This is primarily because I haven't really been all that eager to set up a Flickr account, but tonight I finally took the plunge.
I'm actually going to try to split this up into two posts so that there are only four pictures per post. That way, if you feel like commenting (C&C) or editing, you won't have a huge set of pictures to wade through. My subject is the old barn on what used to be my grandfather's farm. I grew up playing in that thing, and it saddens me every time I return home to see how far it's decayed. I know these pictures won't have the same emotional content for you, but maybe there will be enough artistic content to make up for it. I took these pictures last July during my last visit home.
I'm going to post four exterior shots (with comments) here, and four interior shots in my follow-up post.
1) This shows the back side of an old equipment shed with the barn in the background. This was all pasture land when I was growing up, but it's since had a filbert orchard put in place.
2) This is the back entrance to the barn. That open door leads into the milking room, and there used to be a ramp on it. (I'll have a picture of the interior in my next post.) I also think the big corrugate tin door doesn't fit - it was added on when we still actively used the barn for equipment and supply storage. (I also feel this picture is the weakest of this set - it's too washed out. I'm still having trouble getting good exposure settings.)
3) This is the front wall. You can begin to see the construction techniques they used to assemble these things. I like the texture and the old wood tones. The pipe has shown up over the years - I'm still not sure whether it adds or detracts from things.
4) This shows what's left of the old hay elevator on the barn's north face. Once we'd stacked about 16 bales in a rope carriage, someone at the other end of the barn would start backing up a tractor. There was a 1 1/2 inch diameter rope tied to the tractor that would lift the carriage to that plate on the end of the jutting beam. The carriage would then slide along the beam until someone on the ground yanked the release rope, at which point the carriage would open - dropping the bales into the hay loft.
I'm actually going to try to split this up into two posts so that there are only four pictures per post. That way, if you feel like commenting (C&C) or editing, you won't have a huge set of pictures to wade through. My subject is the old barn on what used to be my grandfather's farm. I grew up playing in that thing, and it saddens me every time I return home to see how far it's decayed. I know these pictures won't have the same emotional content for you, but maybe there will be enough artistic content to make up for it. I took these pictures last July during my last visit home.
I'm going to post four exterior shots (with comments) here, and four interior shots in my follow-up post.
1) This shows the back side of an old equipment shed with the barn in the background. This was all pasture land when I was growing up, but it's since had a filbert orchard put in place.
2) This is the back entrance to the barn. That open door leads into the milking room, and there used to be a ramp on it. (I'll have a picture of the interior in my next post.) I also think the big corrugate tin door doesn't fit - it was added on when we still actively used the barn for equipment and supply storage. (I also feel this picture is the weakest of this set - it's too washed out. I'm still having trouble getting good exposure settings.)
3) This is the front wall. You can begin to see the construction techniques they used to assemble these things. I like the texture and the old wood tones. The pipe has shown up over the years - I'm still not sure whether it adds or detracts from things.
4) This shows what's left of the old hay elevator on the barn's north face. Once we'd stacked about 16 bales in a rope carriage, someone at the other end of the barn would start backing up a tractor. There was a 1 1/2 inch diameter rope tied to the tractor that would lift the carriage to that plate on the end of the jutting beam. The carriage would then slide along the beam until someone on the ground yanked the release rope, at which point the carriage would open - dropping the bales into the hay loft.
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