Day: February 28, 2014

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned

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These photos have nothing to do with nature or outdoor photography, but I couldn’t resist sharing.  Besides, for my regular followers, something different!

About six years ago while visiting my family in Iowa, for my brother’s 50th birthday party which was in January no less, opportunity knocked and I answered.  The opportunity was to go inside my childhood dentist’s office which had been sitting empty since the early 1980’s.  A bit more history is my mom worked for this particular dentist back in the 1950’s in the front office.  That connection is how I was given access to photograph the office.  My sister, one of my cousin’s and his wife also went.  It was my cousin’s wife who called the owner and mentioned I was in town and happened to be a photographer.  Bingo!  Access granted!

Little did we know it would be like walking back in time.  So many things still in place just as it had been left so many years before.  Oh the memories that came to all of us!  Stories that today we can now laugh about, but were frightening back in the day when we were children and patients.

I have several  photos, but chose to share just a few.

old dental office
One of two exam rooms
dental lab coats
The dentist’s “lab” coats.
cigarette butts in ashtray
Shocking that cigarette butts were still in the ashray!
Rotary dial telephone
Rotary dial telephone.
old dental tools
Tools used back in the day for who knows what…quite frightening!

 

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Friday Floral – What’s Your Story?

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Have you every heard and/or read that your photo should tell a story?  After all a picture is worth a thousand words, right?

blue wildflowers
Tech Info: Nikon D7000 Nkkor Micro 105mm 2.8 f3.0 1/200 sec iso 250 polarizer filter handheld basic post processing

What story can be told in a macro image of wildflowers?  Does this photo look busy or cluttered to you and what could I have possibly been thinking?  Okay, enough questions!

The story is the life of desert bluebells. I took a  photo in Acadia National Park near the Great Meadow of lupine that told a similar story. In this photo there are blooms not yet open, in full bloom, one that is spent and several that have already started to go to seed.  Since this photo was taken in my yard, I could have pulled off anything I wanted and I did.  I removed the spent bloom and took another shot.  When processing both images, I realized the second image, without the spent bloom, no longer told the story I wanted to tell.  Now that you know the story, do you see this photo in a different way?

Remember,  different isn’t wrong, it’s just different!