Another Barn

Last September I visited my aunt in Cambridgeshire. My cousin took me for a ride down memory lane in his Range Rover. One of the places he took me was the farm where I was born and spent the first 20 years of my life. I was shocked to see that it had become a victim of the bigger is better syndrome, and that only the barn had survived, presumably because it was useful for storage.
It was my childhood playroom.



I'm not asking for any C&C because the subject is rather emotional, and I've left the image largely uncropped to emphasize the barn's isolation.

Here is an arial photo of the farm in its entirety.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sw.rae/examples/Farm-2.jpg

Regards,

Stuart

A fine barn in its bleak setting--it's easy to share in your memories with this view and the aerial photo, Stuart. Pictures accompanied by words are the best way to share, I think, short of getting to actually be there.

Mary

The other thing that this shot illustrates is what I've said before about the Photomatix Tone Mapping plugin. I kept this version because I liked the detail it had got out of the clouds, but it has introduced some false colour, almost green, to parts of them.

Stuart

Mary Bull said:

A fine barn in its bleak setting--it's easy to share in your memories with this view and the aerial photo, Stuart. Pictures accompanied by words are the best way to share, I think, short of getting to actually be there...

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Hi Stuart,

Thx for sharing. Besides the fact that I agree with Mary -who has eloquently expressed her thoughts as usual- I would like to tell you the feelings/emotions this picture evokes in me. I hope you will not consider it as a C&C, because it isn't.

Various feelings I get are:
- loneliness, being left alone behind
- passing of time
- being left to the mercy of the elements

Most importantly though, I remember my own youth when I would play alone in similar buildings around where we lived, buildings that were already decaying then. It was always a thrilling experience being around them, trying to guess who had lived there before, how it was, how it would look on the inside if one could snek in for a peek, feelings of uneasiness coupled to excitement, feelings of leaving the current plane of realism and getting lost in a fantasy world, etc. I guess I should stop now before some shrink replies to my post (LOL).

Cheers,