Abandoned House!
I went on an excursion to Manitou with some friends of mine over the weekend and found this abandoned house. I guess it has been uninhabited since the early eighties, or so one of my friends (Lori Blondeau) has claimed. It is a strange thing, this house, there are preserves in the cupboards, pills in the medicine cabinet, purses, shoes, and hats strewn about - there is even one solitary handmade grey dress in one of the upstairs bedrooms. No doubt it has been host to some parties and a few vandals since the inhabitants absconded... and there is a very heavy feeling about it.
The ceilings are caving in and birds have nested above the moldings and wall sconces, and there is still a plastic 40th anniversary cake top sitting on the kitchen counter and bottles ready to be taken outside near the back door. Walking through the ramshackle building made me think about the vanity of life, how earthly treasures are so very corrupted. The whole experience was like touring through a stranger's photo album - a simulacra of memories I've never shared but am uncannily familiar with. Whoever lived there is now only present through echoes of rotting wood, strewn magazines, and a few hats with no body to rest on.
posted by Tiffany @ 3:46 PM
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5 Comments:
Hey, could you photoshop me into a tighter pair of pants tiff? We should go back with a lighting kit and generator to check out the basement.
Jesse says,
There are lines in the photo, how did that happen, like a line going through the door and walls in the lighting. From the photo editing I guess?
Hey Jesse,
The lines are from a slapdash photoshop job, I didn't remove the lines from the photos I stitched together. My digital camera is little and has a small lens ratio so I had to take multiple photos from one position just to get the whole room in.
That is pieced together from multiple shots! How did you maintain the correct proportions? Tri-pod? I can only tell it's not the same shot from the lighting otherwise it looks like a single shot. - Jess
I stood in one position and moved my camera about at my eye's point of perspective took shots of the entire room while keeping in mind I was going to piece it together in an organic grid. The lighting is different because I don't have a manual exposure setting on my camera.
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