On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
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Comments (21)
kgb224
Wonderful capture Bill. God bless.
Richardphotos
I seen several on my trip last week. was not always able or willing to stop on the interstate to shoot them. very interesting relics Bill
jayfar
Love this Bill, I try to imagine the goings on there when it was pristine.
awjay
my kind of building
helanker
OHHH This is awesome. I just wish I had been there taking billions of photos of all the wood and cracking colors and so on :)
CavalierLady
Just wonderful! The old buildings, colors and textures are so interesting and your POV couldn't have been any better!
jendellas
Looks like a garage, love the history, wonder who lived/worked there. xx
MrsRatbag
They are surely decrepit indeed! Excellent capture of this richness of texture and faded tones!
durleybeachbum
Not so scarce where I live. The colours are wonderful !
Meisiekind
These old timers lend themselves to such awesome shots. Great job Bill.
Hendesse
Relics from another time. They could certainly tell many stories. An excellent shot.
auntietk
What a find that was! Great shot of the whole thing. I don't think I got one like that. :)
sharky_
Love looking at these old buildings... Aloha
blinkings
Terrific find Bill.
RodS
I absolutely love these old buildings - so much character, and wonderful relics of bygone days. A lovely shot, Bill!
goodoleboy
Great pic of the long defunct structures, Bill. I wonder if they're haunted.
wysiwig
Jack Sprat could eat no fat His wife could eat no lean And so between the both of them They licked the platter clean
You and Tara make a great team. She, up close, and you with the big picture. I love the patterns on the roof on the near building. Excellent work.
Cyve
Amazing and fantastic place... Fantastic shot also !
anahata.c
with this shot, I realized for the first time that you're poetic with beautiful landscapes and opulent closeups (like your car shots); but then you're equally poetic with scenes like this. The 5DMKIII is perfect for you, in scenes like this. The scintillating detail brings out the real life in these seemingly "dead" facades. I love that Helle says, "OHHH This is awesome." A fellow lover of decay! There's utter music in decay, it jumps and dances and sings and does elegies, you name it. You caught all that here. I don't know how many facades there were outside your shot, but you caught a fine sampling here, with the most active one on our right, and the more "bleak" one, just to its right (our left). And darker shadows off to the far left, as balance. The light is bleak, unforgiving. And the greens are present enough to remind us that there was life here once; as are the browns around the windows, and the multi hues of the roof shingles. But it's also got music in the sagging wood beams and the broken windows, etc. And I love the pebbles and the brush in front of the facades---all set off by that bright sky. Terrific decay shot, Bill, in the angle, the choice of ground in front, the swath of plants, all of it. I hope, when I get a camera like yours, I can get shots as good as this. Wonderful.
kenmo
Stunning and so beautiful....yet these buildings are in decline.....
Faemike55
I can see the ad now: " A lovely set of buildings, perfect for the handyman." quaint and lived in" Great capture