Apalachicola Textures

[RSL]

The weather and the sea have beaten on these two antiques created by the hand of man: Wabi sabi.

[wolfnowl]

Yup... nothing lasts forever, as the saying goes.  Will give archaeologists something to puzzle over in a century or two!  Really like the first one.

Mike.

[EduPerez]

The second one does not work for me: the lower window is half-cropped, the upside looking, the sky, ...

But the first one is very nice, I like the textures and the composition; probably I would have tried to make exactly the same photograph myself, if I were there.

[RSL]

I agree with you both that #2 probably isn't the kind of picture I should have posted. It's kind of a personal thing. I drive through Apalachacola at least once a year, and I've always looked up and wondered what it was like to live in that upstairs apartment in the old days. Even after many years behind broken windows, those vertical blinds remain. I'm also fascinated by the textures in the weathered paint and the degenerating deck. From the standpoint of art, it's not much. From the standpoint of nostalgia, it's something.

[wolfnowl]

Yup.  Every picture tells a story, but sometimes the problem is relaying that story through the image alone.  Now I can understand why it was important to you.

Mike.

[popnfresh]

Apalachacola FL looks like it would be a target rich photographic location.

[RSL]

It certainly is, Pop. Next year I'm going to try to plan my trip so I can stay overnight there, get up early while the light's especially good, and get to shooting.

[RSL]

Here are a few more from Apalachicola's "target rich" environment. Don't know what Isabel's is, or was, but it looks as if she pulled up stakes quite a while back. Isabel's was in the same row of "storefronts" as the two earlier shots.

[Jeremy Roussak]

It certainly is, Pop. Next year I'm going to try to plan my trip so I can stay overnight there, get up early while the light's especially good, and get to shooting.

When you do, Russ, I think you should take a load of tightly-cropped (in camera, of course) shots of some of those scenes, to make abstract textures. The boat would seem to lend itself very well to that kind of interpretation.

Just a thought.

Jeremy

[RSL]

It's a good thought, Jeremy. The first picture I posted on this thread is a pretty tight abstraction of the complete building. Here's the whole thing from last year. The building to the left, by the way, is the building in the second picture at the start of this thread. Yes, Apalachicola is a very weathered town and the textures are fascinating.