My name is Tara, and I was born and raised in Washington State.
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In 2010 I married Bill (bmac62) and retired ... two of the best choices I ever made! :)
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In March, 2013, we sold our home in Washington and went on the road in our RV full time. What a blast! There is so much world out there to see!
After traveling around the West for a few years, we got rid of the motorhome and are now spending winters in deep-south Texas and summers in Washington State. Spring and fall finds us visiting whichever place strikes our fancy at the time!
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If I’m missing from Renderosity from time to time, I’m busy having fun elsewhere.
Thanks for your interest in my work, and for stopping by to learn more about me!Â
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Tamron 24-70mm f2.8
Canon 70-200mm f4.0
Zeiss 50mm f1.4
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Photoshop CC
WACOM Intuos 4
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Comments (37)
Faemike55
Beautiful capture! Very good description of the aging process
bazza
Nice capture Tara... Funny it looks how I feel, old patchy and cracking up!! lol..
whaleman
If only those walls could talk!
helanker
I really like this awesome capture. It is my kind of shots, if I just could come near buildings like that. I love it.
awjay
excellent piece of work..
alanwilliams
Wonderful shot wrapped in history.
bern
Nice shot !
sawade
Hi Tara, I like your way to change the shots, all the best from germany, bernd
durleybeachbum
OUTSTANDING! I could cheerfully hang this wall on my wall.
cfulton
I like what you have done with this - quite abstract. Clive
pauldeleu
That's a great photo.
jmb007
bonne photo!!
lucindawind
wow great work on this shot .. I love the colours
tofi
Superb find and what an interesting bit of history! This is unique and odd, yet so very beautiful and abstract-like! It certainly does provoke the imagination! Excellent artwork and capture Tara!
debbielove
This looks great, almost not real! Like a painting! Really well done on this one.. Rob
bmac62
There's light at the top of those stairs:) But watch your step...no handrail. Really like this image of an objecct time has past by. Composition is superb:*
MrsRatbag
What a wonderful study! I love the compo and the grungy look; you did really well with this!
beachzz
Your postwork truly adds to the old, worn look of this place. And your title evokes the same feel--wonderful shot!!
MrsLubner
The postwork really enhances the roughness and age.
Meisiekind
Oh Dierbaar, this is most maevelous! You have added even more mood with your lovely personal touch! Love it!
Chipka
WOW! This is stunning! You know, I love a place that has graffiti and crumbling stone and mold! Ah, but I lived in Prague and remember many a bedroom window with garish fungal afros. (My first landlord suggested that if I saw mold growing in some unwanted place--like the corner above my cracked and wonky window--then I should just go on and put bleach on it...but not too much as it would cause an unpleasant smell. He reminded me of the father in My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding, putting Windex on any sore body part, only he was my not so big, not so fat Czech landlord...and true of many Praguers, more casual than thou. NOTHING fazed him! Ever! So, when I saw your reference to mold, I thought: eh, just put some bleach on it, that'll do the trick.) Now that I've rambled on, and on, and on about bleach and mold, I can now focus on the thing that started that ramble in the first place: this image! I love this kind of stuff and Chicago is so lacking in crumbly things with mold and graffiti only partly covered up. I love the vibe of this image, the way it shimmers and fades in and out like aged stone (or cement) but remains wholly intact, even as it crumbles. I love the rich range of grays and blacks with hints and whispers of blues. Quite nice and very, very moody. This is marvelous! Oh, and I noticed something else...stairs with no railings. How Czech!
lyron
Great image!!!!
hipps13
faces maybe places that see wonderful capture warm hugs, Linda Kaye
wjames
Fabulous capture of a building full of history.
blankfrancine Online Now!
Looks like an abstract painting.Very fine.
paul leatham
Very painterly image.
redchilicat
Really fantastic work!
Bothellite
What a marvelous texture. It also looks like wonderfully done 3D.
jocko500
look at the texture of age here
wysiwig
I don't know what you did to this but it looks like an illustration. Fantastic catch!