*** Mini-Challenge #708 Old Buildings ***

Mini-Challenge #708 Old Buildings

This weeks challenge is ‘old’ buildings. Looking for photos you took of biding that are at least 100 years old. They can be pristine, deteriorated, infuse or abandoned, historical, rural or urban, big or small, residential, religious, governmental or commercial. I’ll be judging on the interest of the subject, overall composition, lighting and the evoking of some type of emotion. I’d like the viewer to feel “yes, I’d have taken that photo”.

Some examples will follow.

This challenge will end on August 20, 2022 at 8 am Eastern time.

Challenge Rules:

The host gives you a topic and you post up to three images that fit. Remember, it's all about fun, sharing, and learning. Any picture you have taken in person is eligible, regardless of the time taken, camera, or post-processing used. The host chooses the winners and honourable mentions and posts those in a new thread. The host's decision is final. The winner of this challenge then hosts the next challenge, judges the winner of that one, and so on it goes. The winner of this challenge will have 48 hours to post the next challenge. If that doesn't happen, 2nd place will have 24 hours to do so, then it's up to 3rd place.

Submission Posting Guidelines:

Post each one of your three submissions in its own reply to this post. Give each post a unique Subject, please. It is best to embed an image in its post rather than linking to somewhere else. Feel free to post photos "for exhibition only" if you want to share more than three, or won't be available to host the next challenge. Try to preserve the EXIF please, so we can see which camera, lens, and settings were used.

Comment Posting Guidelines:

Feel free to post comments on the images or ask for comments. Don't hesitate to click on the green "Like" thumb on the top right of the post, so we know which images were most popular. Likes are appreciated as much as constructive criticism is. The host can make up his or her own mind without being influenced by that. I wish you all "good luck" and let's see some interesting pics.

Recent Mini-Challenges:

707: Big

706: Long Exposure

705: Many Colors

704: Abstraction

703: Sunsets

702: Living Things

701: Not of the Earth

700: Nostalgia: Your Early Digital Camera Pictures

699: Picture of a Picture

698: Happy Faces

697: Music

696: Birds

695: Nature

694: Boats

693: Metal

692: There's "nothing" to shoot!
691: Favourites
690: Nostalgia
689: Winter

688: Travel/Vacation
687: Festive Lights
686: Animals

685: Plants

684: Night Scenes

683: Small machines (for work and leisure)

682: Autumn
681: Wabi-Sabi
680: Landscapes

679: One Dominant Color

678: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

677: Chocolate

676: Amusement ride

Just some local old buildings......Don

Kingston, ON city hall with Martello Tower guarding the harbour

Not your typical A&W

Mill owners house north of the city

Church of the Good Thief built by inmates in 1840's from nearby prison

A mini-castle

B&B with Covid regulations posted on door

I'd imagine that a lot of unsympathetic alterations over the previous 100 years have to be undone if restoration is the goal.

Don

I am always amazed at the architecture and quality of churches in even some of the smallest towns.  A lot of dedicated hard work must have been expended over a few years to create such beauty.

Don

Great looking place.  Love the ornamental details.......Don

Need some entries !

The Pink Palace in Buenos Aires. Is Madonna up there in the crowd

Ontarian wrote:

Need some entries !

We have very few 100 year old buildings where I live, for whatever reason. And the few we do have, are generally not photographically viable. But if I can bend the rule ever so slightly, here's a 99.x year old barn (built in 1923):

Some old structures I have visited in my travels, at least a lot older then myself.

Cape Blanco Lighthouse, Oregon. Built in 1870 and automated in 1980.

The Pendleton Barn, Fruita Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Raised in 1908

Old homestead built in the 1870’s along what would become Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra Nevada of California. I took this about 2012 and from what I’ve heard it has completely collapsed from winter snows since then.

rjgjr wrote:

Some old structures I have visited in my travels, at least a lot older then myself.

The Pendleton Barn, Fruita Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Raised in 1908

Old homestead built in the 1870’s along what would become Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra Nevada of California. I took this about 2012 and from what I’ve heard it has completely collapsed from winter snows since then.

Impressive house placed in an impressive landscape!

Where is John Wayne in hiding ?

Very nice Len.

Don

Great shots Richard.

Don

guinness2 wrote:

rjgjr wrote:

Some old structures I have visited in my travels, at least a lot older then myself.

The Pendleton Barn, Fruita Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Raised in 1908

Old homestead built in the 1870’s along what would become Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra Nevada of California. I took this about 2012 and from what I’ve heard it has completely collapsed from winter snows since then.

Impressive house placed in an impressive landscape!

Where is John Wayne in hiding ?

He’s over yonder with the U.S. 7th Cavalry

Thanks Don

Ontarian wrote:

Very nice Len.

Don

Thank you. It's kinda funny how photos can take on a life apart from their original conditions. That one looks like a cool and windy pre-storm moment. Truth is, it was off-the-scale humid, 86F and I was dripping sweat while shooting!   

With only a total of seven photos submitter thus far, I've opted to delay this MC's closing from this morning until Tuesday morning at 8 AM.

Don