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Simple Red Barn, Oxford CT
Just a simple red barn with plywood exterior cladding basking in the setting sun of Oxford CT. Photographed with a Sony Nex 7, 24.3mp, mirrorless camera and a Sony 18-55 3.5-5.6 lens @ 39=58mm. 1/40th f11, ISO 100 Aperture Priority
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Old Stone Schoolhouse, Farmington CT
The Old Stone Schoolhouse in Farmington, Connecticut, has quite a history. It was built around 1790 to serve students in Farmington and Unionville CT. It originally served the West District as a schoolhouse. The brownstone used for its construction was sourced from a local quarry and transported by ox-drawn wagons. The schoolhouse operated until 1872, when enrollment exceeded 40 students, leading to the construction of a new frame schoolhouse nearby. After its time as a school, the building had several uses—it was briefly owned by Simon Manus, a former slave and Civil War veteran, before being repurposed as a religious and social center. Over the years, it was known as…
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Multiple Barns, East Windsor CT
You don’t have to go far to find an old barn to photograph when travelling through East Windsor CT. It’s a barn photographers paradise. While many of these barns catered to the once flourishing tobacco industry in town there are plenty of other utilitarian barns. These four images are a mixture of both. Last count The Historic Barns of CT website has (184) barns featured in the town of East Windsor alone. I’ve used this website for many years to find most of these gems. If you’re into this sort of thing take a gander over to https://connecticutbarns.org/find/found?limit=12&category=838&require_all=category If you do decide to track these barns down and take some photo’s…
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Abandoned mill, Woonsocket RI
Molly, (my dog), and I were driving around Woonsocket RI with camera in hand looking for a picture of an abandoned building. We only had about a half an hour of free time before we had to be somewhere so when we stumbled upon this old abandoned factory I took the picture. In my research I couldn’t actually ascertain what business was in here. I presume because this area was rich in textile mills that this was probably one of them. The height and length of this building was pretty typical of woolen mills. If you ever saw the inside of one you’d understand why. If any readers themselves or…
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Melrose One Room Schoolhouse, East Windsor CT
This blog entry is part of an ongoing project called “One Room Schoolhouses in CT”). If you’re interested in the history of one room schoolhouses in CT I suggest you purchase CONNECTICUT SCHOOLHOUSES THROUGH TIME by Melinda K. Elliott. This book has been a very helpful resource for me as I did my research. At time of writing this book was available on AMAZON. The Melrose Schoolhouse, located in the village of Melrose in East Windsor, Connecticut, is a historic gem with a rich past. Built around 1850, it was part of the town’s reorganization of schools into twelve districts. This one-room schoolhouse served as the 7th District School and was…
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Center School, Middlebury CT (circa 1897)
This blog entry is part of an ongoing project called “One Room Schoolhouses in CT”). If you’re interested in the history of one room schoolhouses in CT I suggest you purchase CONNECTICUT SCHOOLHOUSES THROUGH TIME by Melinda K. Elliott. This book was has been a very helpful resource for me as I did my research. At time of writing this book was available on AMAZON. Cheryl, myself and our dog Molloy headed over to Middlebury CT to photograph this absolutely gorgeous two room schoolhouse. It is currently the home of the Middlebury Historical Society. The town hired a professional architectural firm back in the late 1800’s to design this building and…
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Abandoned Silo in Oxford
I was travelling through Oxford CT with Cheryl and our dog Molloy when we came upon this cool old abandoned Silo. There was an industrial park built all around it which is not really visible from the picture. In fact I was standing on the property of a company while taking these pictures. This seems to be all that remains of what was once a working farm. Photographed with a Sony Nex 7,APS-C 24.3 mp mirrorless camera and a Sony 18-55 lens at 18mm (APS-C equiv. = 27mm). Handheld 1/20th, f11, ISO 100, APERTURE PRIORITY
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Miniature Truck in a Big World
For this shot I photographed a 6″ metal diecast model of a 1940 Ford Pickup truck that I bought new for $23.00 at a flea market. I video taped it on a 360 deg. turnstile and also shot still photography images. I then inserted the tabletop shot of the truck into a previous picture of a tobacco barn that I had taken. I did add the signage on the side of the truck from an image I found on google images (garageartsigns.com). The barn is located somewhere in north central CT which is rich in tobacco barns. I didn’t record where the picture was taken. Settings for the diecast model…
