THE GOOD LIFE

From an abandoned homestead in Montana.

Cool photo. I always like abandoned things. What's the powdery stuff in front of the chair? I think the box on the left was a good choice to leave in the composition.

It is snow. I guess I did not do quite a good enough job of bringing it out. Thanks for the comment. Another photo showing the coral and outbuildings in the snow is on the critique forum tonight.

Nice photo. I really like the lighting and color.

Thanks for the compliment and for taking the time to comment. Cheers

David,

• You brake into my house!
• You leave the window open and the snow blows in!
• You take photos of the event, and then have the nerve to share this with the world!
• Thank You, you captured a wonderful image!

Next time please close the window behind you.

very good comp. Dav !

This time the culprit is Juan. I shot this by leaning into an open window, then went on to shoot the coral and out buildings. When I get back to the house, I can't find Juan, but I notice some boards that had been covering a door are now laying on the ground. Well, being a close cousin to Sherlock Holmes, I immediately deduced that the errant Mr. De Santa Anna was in the process committing yet another crime. So I joined him.

 

Glad you liked it. Lovely shade of green isn't it?

Thanks. I had a little difficulty in that I could not look through the viewfinder to take the pic. Thank God for digital, so I could at least view it after the taking.

Partners in crime! I wish I could have been there to make it a threesome, or better yet I know another criminal who would have joined the foursome!

Next time.

I like the compo with the chair and window...lovely greens...light is strong but adds to the mood...yeap good shots always require some risk or breaking something if not the rules...:-)

Thanks. I love the way you have mastered the orderliness of life in your photos, where everything including the haphazard fits into a pattern, and most of my images are of disorder and dishevelment. What an interesting dynamic.

it's probably that contrast that bring me there all the time...:-)...

love the green! i know you are surprised to find me enjoying this shot. :-) is this in the same house as the yellow kitchen? wonderful light here.

Thanks. The yellow kitchen was in a travel trailer. Whole different ball game. Yes, this green is special. It must have been in vogue at some point, but I sure don't know when that would have been.

all this needs is a raven sitting on the windowsill. I'm not much into photos of things that are in such a falling-appart shape, so it's amazing to see all the V8 bottle caps next to the cardboard box by the window. Guess you're right - they did have a good life. Cheers, Micheal

 

We are left to wonder, aren't we, whether in memory, the good life was lived here? Did the people who moved on leave with regret, and now have fond memories of their life in this place? Or was it the scene of misery or sorrow or grief? Was it warm here?

 

Your picture leaves stories untold, questions unanswered. Good.

That's the interesting thing isn't it. You and I and perhaps quite a few others all see that in a scene like this. It's as if there is something palpable that is in the photo, but isn't.

 

As for this particular homestead, I suspect that a lot of hopes and dreams went down the toilet. That lives lived hard did not blossom into success. But, I'm equally sure there must have been the good times too. Love, beauty, satisfaction in deriving an existence from what nature will concede. It's not imponderable, it's simply largely unknowable.

What a wonderfully ugly color green. I like it. I like the light. I like the simplicity of it and the wall line you use to take us in.

David,sad to see the neglect but well composed. good light and bizarre color.

Kent, if memory serves me right, you had a portrait with an old lady in it and the background wasn't too far off of this color. But, yes, it is not your standard Better Homes & Gardens color scheme. Thanks for the look.

 

Pnina, thanks so much for coming by. You have such a special eye, that whenever I garner a comment from you, I feel very, very, honored. Cheers

Beautiful, David. I like that light and color too. This picture is a strange mix of beauty and desolation. I find your rendition of that scene very interesting in so far as ,to me, you seemed to emphasize the beauty in it.

I do see beauty in it. But the beauty comes through the story that could be told by these walls, this chair, this house. So much than we can only imagine, yet never know. It's a beautiful mystery, but it could have been a sad story.

A really good picture... cool...lonely... cold... perfect life. Thank you for this image.