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| Layers of Building Materials, Old Farm Building, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina © Doug Hickok Dating from the end of the 19th century, an old farm building at the Mountain Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountains displays a variety of building materials and their textures. Mountain folk used whatever natural resources they could to construct their farmsteads... stone, river mud, timber and bark, mixed in with a generous dose of blood, sweat and tears. For a hundred years pioneers used their skills and perseverance to eke out a rough living amid the harsh mountain wilderness of the Appalachians until the modern world gradually crept in and changed their lives forever. |
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Mountain Farm Building
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That's an assortment of building materials! Nice shot of the details.
ReplyDeleteGreat capture!
ReplyDeleteA rainbow of textures.
Very interesting the 3 layers of the building plus the blue sky as 4th.
ReplyDeleteNice composition, good work.
Looks very interesting, love the blue sky :-)
ReplyDeleteA fine image for its many textures and interesting colors. Fine shot indeed!
ReplyDeleteThats a lot of interesting layers and textures.
ReplyDeletemagnificent and colorful testimony to the ingenuity of the mountain folk who made do with what they had! very well seen and documented!
ReplyDeleteexcellent detail, colors and layers
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Wow, lots of tone, texture and complimentary colours here. And love that vivid splash of blue too.
ReplyDeleteexcellent mixture of textures and colors. well done!
ReplyDeleteWow! I really love this composition!
ReplyDeleteYou're so lucky - the sky is so blue!!
Stone wall, timber beam and roof shingles - great combo.
Bit disappointed though...
Was expecting to see something like the Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland though. Ha ha!
It is great to visit your blog! :`)
ReplyDeleteOutstanding--really love the textural layers and great color in this shot. It's hard to imagine the challenges of life back then and the toughness necessary to survive. I feel like such a wimp.
ReplyDeletejoli rendu graphique et coloré.
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