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Welles-Shipman-Ward Homestead & Barns, Glastonbury CT
The Welles-Shipman-Ward House is a historic property in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, originally built in 1755 for John and Jerusha Welles. The main house is a Georgian-style mansion with one of the largest colonial-era hearth fireplaces in Connecticut. Over the years, it has been preserved and restored, maintaining its original colonial charm. The property also features several outbuildings, including: A four-story…
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Beautiful old barn & silo, East Windsor CT
This barn and silo served two functions. The silo held some type of granular food which must have been for the farmers animals or potential storage and sale of whatever was inside. When I zoomed into the image, in hi-resolution, I could see a series of vertical boards in the upper half of the side wall that were obviously opened…
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Beautifully maintained Tobacco Farm, Suffield CT area
The northern portion of CT straddling the CT river was rich in tobacco farming through the 19th and 20th century. As a result tobacco farms dotted the countryside and it’s almost impossible not to see dozens of them as you drive throughout the towns in this area. As a photographer and connoisseur of old barns I couldn’t help but take…
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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…
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The sky’s warmth embraces this old barn and truck……….
This looks like the remains of what once was a tobacco barn in Manchester CT. Aging comfortably beside is an old rusting truck. Photographed with a Nikon D7100 and Nikon 18-55 lens @ 55mm. (35mm equiv. = 82mm) 1/125th, F8, ISO 400, Aperture Priority, Focus Stacked.
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Tobacco Farm in Southwick, MA.
[wzslider height=”800″ lightbox=”true”]Winter has hit this tobacco farm in Southwick, MA as it sits quiet in the calm of the moonlight. Photographed with FujiFilm Finepix F100fd, 12MP, pocket camera.
