Thursday, February 9, 2012

A Ride Back in Time

Horse Carriage and Old Exchange Building, Charleston, SC  © Doug Hickok
(Velvia slide film. Click on image for larger view)



One of the fun ways to see historic Charleston is a horse carriage tour. It makes you feel like you have journeyed back in time, to an era when life moved at a considerably slower pace.

This is one of the images from the Spoleto Festival USA website, from a section that promotes things to do when visiting the city. If you come, remember to bring your Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara costumes, along with your carpetbags. But please, no scalawags or rascals allowed.

18 comments:

  1. It does have a time-traveler quality to it. Like the horse, carriage, and rider are all emerging from some time portal. Or maybe heading into it.

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  2. splendida questa fotografia..mi riporta a scenari di vecchi film americani che amo tanto . Buongiorno :-) Nicoletta

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  3. Stupende foto.

    Take the click
    Blogfotocommunity

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  4. This is a great action shot Doug... i like it....peter:)

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  5. Awesome motion in this picture, it's very artistic!
    Léia

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  6. Nice blur.. "A slow pace" .. What's that?

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  7. Wow, great pic, with lots of movement. Reminds of riding through Central Park with two delightful ladies after escaping from a PACA meeting - more years ago than I care to remember!

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  8. love the angle, the framing, the light and the way you've used motion blur
    shortly said: a perfect shot!

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  9. Should I also pack my pineapple fibre shirt and pineapple fibre sun hat?
    Do pineapples grow slow in the old city of Charleston too?

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  10. What a unique way to capture this one, Doug! I've photographed horse drawn carriages in Sacramento, and here in Viña del Mar, by the sea. I've never thought of an approach like this, though. Great work, then.

    Were you thinking of that last line from the movie when you broke all the rules with this one? ..."Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"!

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  11. The bit of motion blur adds a lot of dynamism to this shot.

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  12. The title works very well with your image. Magnificent work! The illusion to be in past is completed.
    Have a nice day.

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  13. a fine shot representative of southern living.. :)

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