Slowly Suffocating Photo

Photographer’s Note

I took this somewhere in southeastern Nebraska. I thought that this shed looked rather lonely and abandoned out there in the field, being swallowed up by its surroundings. Rather a bleak photo, really. But it did make me wonder about when it was first built and how, at one time, it was considered necessary to someone. How quick we are to set aside and forget about things--and even people.

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phototurk (484) 2008-03-31 14:48

Like a picture...well done...

metsankettu (58) 2008-03-31 16:01

I am often drawn to abandoned buildings and love photographing them as well. You are right with your comments, it makes you wonder about when it used to be something important. It is expensive to construct building, lots of time and money and effort go into it, so one does wonder about the forces and circumstances that render a building no longer useful. You've captured a building that has outlived its purpose and it now being consumed by the landscape around it.

kmarscher (2881) 2008-04-01 7:46

This is a captivating image. It reminds me of an Andrew Wyeth minimal painting and demonstrates that sometimes less is more. Well seen!

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That said, I might consider placing the building a tad off center, using your CS2 to selectively bring out the contrast in the sky, and resizing to a larger file size and sharpness to make a perhaps better (?) presentation. The unusual proportions show that it may be a cropped image. Just my humble opinion.

ivarlein (134) 2008-04-01 9:04