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Abandoned Farmhouse
Situated along a busy highway, this abandoned Manitoba farmhouse bears witness to the families who lived in it and worked hard to earn a living from the land.
Please enjoy my new Abandoned Farmhouse Gallery. I tried to capture the forms and textures of this abandoned farmhouse. Imagining the people and the lives that were lived in these empty spaces
Prairie Farmstead - New Additions
New additions to the Prairie Farmstead Gallery.
Prairie Farmer Discer
I digitized a few more of the Prairie Farmstead negatives this week. Prairie Farmstead Discer and several other new photographs are available for viewing in the Prairie Farmstead Gallery.
The Red Wagon
When I photographed this wagon I was thinking nostalgia and antiques, but when I first saw the actual image it made me sad. Where is the little boy who played with this wagon? Why was it abandoned out in the middle of a field?
The Red Wagon
So Much Depends is a photograph that has troubled me from the moment I first saw it on the contact sheet. When I photographed this wagon I was thinking nostalgia and antiques, but when I first saw the actual image it made me sad. Where is the little boy who played with this wagon? Why was it abandoned out in the middle of a field?
William Carlos Williams' poem The Red Wheelbarrow comes to mind when I view this photograph. The poem reads:
so much depends upon
a red wheel barrow
glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens
For a farmer, a wheelbarrow is an indispensable tool. For a boy growing up on a farm, a wagon is an ever-present companion. Break the wheelbarrow or break the wagon and the world changes. Sometimes such simple things that we take for granted are what we really depend on the most.
Nikon F-801 w. Nikkor 35 f/1.4; Ilford XP2 Film