OLD HOMESTEAD

If you want to get the real feel of the image, view large on a big screen

Dave, Great shot! Regards...

I think you're right, this picture should be seen very large. It flattens out completely on my small screen and has no feeling of dimensionality. In fact, it almost feels like a composite image because of the absence of a the illusion of depth. A strong image that doesn't read well small.

Impressive in its natural disorder. A slightly higher position to unbraid fore- and background (balk and houses fundament) ?

Sir, A nice composition and reflection back to a much simplier time gone by......Thanks for sharing your vision! Doug

a wonderful composition. All quadrants of the photo are occupied with interesting stuff without being crammed, each with its own character. My only nitpick is that I wish there would be a free space between the wooden spar on the front left (next to the tall weed) and the log house above. Cheers, Micheal

Joseph, Jack and Doug, there is nothing to say except thanks for your encouraging remarks.

 

Daily and Micheal, you are right that a bit of separation between the spar and the cabin base would have made this a better image. Thanks for your sound advice.

I like the way the buildings are partially cut off by the horizon. I also like the muted color cast. Very nice work!

This has that Andrew Wyath (muted) feel. Great sense of perspective and depth. Really quite a wonderful composition and a great feeling. Just replace the wagon frame with a woman in dull pink and you've got it. Your own take on American realism. Very nicely done.

Thank you Fred and Matthias.

I love this shot, Dave, but do you have other versions? Given your equipment and the time of day, I would have expected a tad more sharpness. Perhaps, this is the computer's focusing, but I would have tried manual focusing, with the wheel as the central point, and then taking it to infinity. Nice composition, though.

Thanks for the comment. I've got to be honest, I don't see it as not sharp, but I'll be the first to admit the eyes aren't what they used to be. I'll have to see if I have others. I do know this was taken with a tripod.

David, I think you really have an outstanding series with those pictures of the plains of the Old West. The more I look at your treatment of those pictures, the more I find it appropriate and magnifying your subject matter. To me, there's exactly the same kind of feel in all of them as that we could find in photos from magazines or Old West cowboy movies from the fifties I grew up with. You know, the great heroes, Jim Stewart, Alan Ladd, Robert Taylor, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and friends... Well, having never been there, this is my very subjective vision of it. I wish I could go there one day. It must be quite a hostile environment at times, David.

Thanks. Your comments really make me feel good about them. I've done so much from this genre that I really felt like I was testing my photo friends' patience and endurance. As for hostile environment, I think it must have been absolutely brutal for the homesteaders and early pioneers. I was exceedingly fortunate to have been able to stay with fellow Pnetter Susan Stone, who is IMHO about the best and most gracious hostess on the planet. She made many of my best images from the trip possible.

 

Come on over, and we will tour. I'd love to see the images you could come up with at some of these places. I'll bet they would be very different and very interesting.

David, thank you. It would be great! I'd love that!

Traveling a bit in your files, I have missed some gems... this is one of them. Great rural America... reminds me of the pioneers history, that came to the new land.... very nice composition my friend!