Dow Road Abandoned Farmyard

This one's abandoned, and less than a mile from the house in the previous photo. A very photogenic place; looks like it was a neat home.

Another view of that abandoned house on Dow Road. It certainly looks like it was an attractive place when it was occupied....

I had an idea for a specific photo on January 11--of a deserted house on Dow Road, north of Little Venice. I took an eccentric route to the site, though, and collected a handful of farmyard shots on Strange Highway before I got to the abandoned place. I also took a pair of really odd photographs of my then-quite-new car. These trees are near the Dow Road property, and caught my eye while I was shooting another photo . ========== "Your rules say 15 daily photographs. Why?" Experience. Three are too few; thirty are more than I usually need. When I used film, a typical twelve or twenty(-four) frame film roll would yield one or two photographs I liked, perhaps three absolute disasters, with the rest acceptable but unexceptional. Some days were (are) better than others, to be sure, for all sorts of reasons. The pattern holds true when I shoot digitally, except that on a typical day I shoot more pictures. My rules were intended to keep the project simple. Restricting myself to relatively few photographs made it more likely I'd actually get out there with the camera. As you'll see, though, I treated this "rule" as a guideline. Many days I shot six or eight pix; on other days I'd shoot over 200. This depended on my mood, and the day's opportunity. The month's camera had some impact, too. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . January 11 was the day I finally realized that the 366 Snaps outtakes were worth preserving. So I created a folder and started stuffing it with photographs. At that point I wasn't sure what I'd do with them. Number of project photos taken: 15 Title of " roll :" Near Mulliken Other photos taken on 1/11/2012: none.

This is the photograph I was setting up when I noticed the signs on the trees . While this pic works in monochrome, it's better in color. You may notice that there's another home--a double-wide modular, actually--in the neighboring lot. It, too, is abandoned, and appears unlikely to survive for long. But it's not especially photogenic. We'll be seeing that barn again .... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366/2012 project discussion here .

One of the neighbors has a neat fence, which I wanted to photograph for 366 Snaps , but the sunlight was dull and so was the photo. I kept driving. Eventually I found sunshine. I've shown you this barn before . ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 21 Title of " roll :" Around Roxand Other photos taken on 11/2/2012: There was good light, there were birds at the feeders, I'd put a long lens on my D300--I shot nearly 500 bird pix .

This barn, on Dow Road, is near the non-place called " Little Venice ." The barn was likely built by the Bosworth family, early white settlers in Sunfield township whose heirs owned land along Dow on the Sunfield side for over a century. There's a house on the lot that looked to date from the mid-20th century while it was still being kept up but now looks about as old as the barn; the barn's gonna outlast it. That tree's really something. By the way, I've shown you folks this barn before. Here's an example , complete with the farmhouse. And here's another .

This barn, on Dow Road, is near the non-place called " Little Venice ." The barn was likely built by the Bosworth family, early white settlers in Sunfield township whose heirs owned much of the land along Dow on the Sunfield side for over a century. There's a house on the lot that looked to date from the mid-20th century while it was still being kept up but now looks about as old as the barn; the barn's gonna outlast it. That tree's really something. By the way, I've shown you folks this barn before. Here's an example , complete with the farmhouse. And here's another .

This barn's one of my regular photographic subjects , as is the badly-deteriorated house next door. Thought I'd see what my new camera thought of it.