Shots that make you feel alone

InPhoto wrote in post #19187906

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Excellent!

Thank you!!

This is one from another thread...figured it'd fit here, too.

Photo from Intheswamp's gallery.

Intheswamp wrote in post #19188222
This is one from another thread...figured it'd fit here, too.

Gallery photo:
posted by Intheswamp originally in forum: Still Life, B/W & Experimental

Wow, great shot! Dramatic yet calming.

dantheobserver wrote in post #19188391
Wow, great shot! Dramatic yet calming.

Thanks! We've watched through the years how so many old "tenant houses" in our area have simply collapsed into a pile of overgrowth. The standard routine is that the houses were initially fine homes of a small farmer who eventually gets bigger and then rents it out...or their farm fails and they move on and someone else moves in. Rinse, repeat. Eventually the old structures without modern building features were relegated to grass hay storage. This was in the day of square bales. The stacked bales of hay were too heavy for the floor structures and many floors simply collapsed over a period of time...but, some, maybe out of pure stubborness, kept their floors. But then the day of round bales came along and the houses just sit there. People do claim some wood from some but most simply sit there slowly collapsing, dying a slow death. A sheet of tin blows off and it's like opening a cancer...the deterioration speeds up then. Back when I was 18 or 19 years old I wrote a poem about this very thing...about an old abandoned house. It's sad. Generations of lives that have gone like a wisp of wind...never to be known about...their stories ceased to be told. If the old houses could just talk... The telling-of-tales of family happenings is a dying thing with us humans. Life has changed...I won't say for good or bad, though. Just...sad.

Intheswamp wrote in post #19188222
This is one from another thread...figured it'd fit here, too.

Gallery photo:
posted by Intheswamp originally in forum: Still Life, B/W & Experimental

It's such a fine picture, I wonder why I didn't hit the "like" button when I first saw it.

Thanks unclejohn. I appreciate that.

One more comment on this shot and I'll let it be.

At times when I look at it I see three old friends. Two that are feeble and ailing and the other one old and feeble itself but trying to watch over the other two...

Intheswamp wrote in post #19189075
One more comment on this shot and I'll let it be.

At times when I look at it I see three old friends. Two that are feeble and ailing and the other one old and feeble itself but trying to watch over the other two...

I can see that too !

Atlanta airport

Is that a recent image?

Intheswamp wrote in post #19195249
Is that a recent image?

No, from December 2017, the international terminal in the morning. Terminal E if I recall correctly. Empty until afternoon/evening when many of the flights depart.

Ostia Antica, Italy.

Looks like a painting. Those trees are incredible!!