Old Buildings & Structures

Doing a day trip to the Whalers Museum, Mystic Conn., I spotted this old house on blocks apparently moved from some other local location. The picture to the right is a cropping of the photograph. It got my attention because of the number of times this old building and the "doors" had been painted by people who have lived there in the past and made this old house their home. Nikkormat/50mm and Kodak Ektachrome 100, 60/f.8

Driving through an Atlanta GA. suburb I could not belief the remnants of Georgia's past were still in existence. This photograph as well as the ones below were taken in Snellville, GA.. The owner of the property explained that the shack on the right was once part of a plantation The entire property looked as if someone had turned the clock back a hundred years or so. and al the stuff on the porch could have been left there today.

The covered wagon and the rusty farm equipment tell a different story. Canon EOS 7e, 28/90 MM Kodak Supra 100.

The picture to the left is not a crop from the above but a "zoom" from the same vantage point. It shows better detail of the stuff around the place and the tools hanging from walls and rafters. Is this an antique shop I asked? The owner smiled. I pressed the shutter. Canon EOS 7e, 28/90 MM Kodak Supra 100 film auto settings.

Plantation quarters is the title of the picture to the right. If the structures are or not, I am not sure, but they sure look like it. Notice the red "buggy" wagon underneath the lean-to-shed contrasted in time by a modern lawn mower to the left. Canon 7e, 28/90 MM Kodak Supra 100 film auto settings.

# O-1003 Plantation Quarters

This picture was taken outside Las Vegas NV., in the early seventies. The character who rented the horses behind the shed, was more picturesque then the structure and all the stuff around it. The man had no interest in becoming part of my photograph and disappeared inside his castle. Nikon F2, 35/70, 2.8 Vivitar Ektachrome, 125/f-8

On one of our trips to Holland we visited Voorschoten, a small community at the eastern edge of The Hague. Wandering around in a modern shopping area I noticed a small alley (O-1030) with small antique and fashion Shoppe's and old buildings, connecting the today's world with an older world. (O-1008) Most of the buildings in the alley and the street pictures in O-1008 date back to 1700-1800 era. Modernization of these structures is supervised by local preservation committees making changes to an exterior almost impossible. Nikon F2/50mm, Ektachrome 100, 25@16. Below: If there is "Pop Art" then, we can regard the

O-1008 Merchant Shingle

O-1030 Village back alley

picture to the right as "Pop Photography." I spotted this building when traveling highway 40 to Ocala. Some months later, I went back for it and finally found it nearly twice the distance further up the road than I had remembered it. The location is Lynne, central Florida. Canon 7e, 28/90mm

The Sorino Resort Hotel in St. Petersburg Fl, was one of many splendid places where the wealthy spend the winter. Due to new resorts being build directly on the beaches of Florida and better transportation allowing shorter stays, the resort was closed in the fifties. The hotel suffered from rebar expansion due to concrete mixing with washed sand from salt water sources. The impurities in the sand caused concrete deterioration making the building unsafe making it unfit for remodeling. It was imploded in the early nineties. On the way to Atlanta near Tilton GA, I spotted this old farm house. It may be that this structure was abandoned

O-1028 Old House, Tilton GA

O-1029 Old House, Tilton GA

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