these are a few of the doors and colored walls in my neighborhood. they used to be tobacco barns, country stores, and homes. i look for them like friends when driving along these curvy roads. my favorite is a huge old shut up blue house that now has cows mingling in its front lawn and sometimes on its porch. unfortunately i don't have a picture. i also love the patchwork huts scattered throughout these fields. if anyone is interested in taking up a country life, there are plenty of abandoned mill houses and what not to be turned into homes or stores. i've never been inside any of these doors, so i imagine them to hold something a little more magical than farm equipment and snakes and spiders. the last 2 pictures are of a corn crib on our property that has been converted into a top secret fort house by my sisters.
Posted by red clay at February 10, 2005 10:50 AM | TrackBackI love pictures.
The patchwork barn is incredible.
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Michael
Your pictures are wonderful! (What camera do you use? The colors are really vibrant.)
I, too, love closeup shots of doors...windows...barns. The Pacific Northwest is a great place to explore with my camera, and I've taken a lot of photos of deserted pioneer homes.
Love your blog! Keep those pictures coming. I'll be back.
Posted by: Bonnie at February 10, 2005 12:09 PM* i think i took a picture of that barn my sophomore year in high school with carolyn pitcavage for an art class project. as for your doors, is there any way i can make prints of these doors and put them on a single horizontal picture frame for my new place?
Posted by: jane. at February 10, 2005 07:28 PMjane. it's very likely. the second patchwork barn/shed/thing is right around the corner from the camp. i love it for passing it a million times. and, please do make prints of my doors...but i have no idea how you go about doing that. what do you need me to do?
Posted by: kelly at February 10, 2005 08:51 PMAh, the fort house, or as Ezra says "The port house."
I love the red doors. It is kind of amazing how much better a lot of those places look in pictures than they do in real life. I guess in your pictures I see it the way you do in real life. I wonder what the photo would look like if I took it. We should experiment next time I'm there....if you think I am making any sense at all.
Try to get a picture of the blue house--with the cows of course.
kelly, your work is so captivating. i have enjoyed looking at your photographs, which are just the eye candy i love to see.
thank you for visiting my site. i will spend more time at yours.
Posted by: thicket dweller at February 11, 2005 08:21 AM* i'll try to save the pictures and see how they come out at the photo shop.
Posted by: jane. at February 11, 2005 04:00 PMi like the house with all the appliances. i could do a lot with that house, i think.
i also like the second picture - the white door with flaking paint...and the fourth and the fifth...
Posted by: steph at February 11, 2005 05:12 PMmichael. thanks. there are quite a few barns like that out here. i haven't figured the rainbow look out, but i like it.
A. i love that ezra thought the old shacks were fallen houses. i'm taking my camera on all future outings in hopes of capturing the cows and the blue house. it's a very storybook scene. they were actually out the other day, but i didn't have my camera.
thicket dweller. thank you. i enjoyed looking through your site as well.
jane. if you want me to email the originals, or whatnot, let me know.
steph. i'm starting to get an idea of your taste (or at least one of them). the white doors you like have something that the painting you bought has. hmmm...and i like that house with the junky porch too. there are tons more around here.
Posted by: kelly at February 11, 2005 07:36 PMBeautiful collection kelly, and it must have been a beautiful day to have such bright colors
Posted by: katiek at February 12, 2005 05:31 PMHello again Blessed Kelly,
Thanks so much for stopping by my journal. I can see from those pictures that your neighborhood has such character. Im curious, where do you live? in the states? God bless you dear Kelly. Stay beautiful!
Posted by: yanisin at February 12, 2005 11:23 PMyanisin. north carolina. thanks.
kt. thank you. it was a beautiful day, but the colors are always bright.
Posted by: kelly at February 13, 2005 07:46 PM* kelly-if you actually could email the originals to my gmail account, that would be rad. let me know if you need the address-
Posted by: jane. at February 13, 2005 09:46 PMa sense of perspective? horizontal lines? : )
a lack of color? (or at least, bright vibrant color...) contrast? something way more deep?
what do you see?
[to add to this, i always set my computer display settings to grey and white. and most often i have black and white pictures as my background. right now it's amy's big friendly tree...]
Posted by: steph at February 14, 2005 12:57 PM