Awesome photo! Thanks.Not made with a Sell-Fone®:
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Actually, this is from a 5x7 glass plate, C. 1905.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Nice photo, and a incredible spot, am always interested in good stonework, tis what I do, but most of the time without mortar. Hard work for a fart of old grumpiness!
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I wish I could say I made the negative. I'd be pretty old, or most like, dead, by now!
I do have a very similar chair, though (similar vintage, too). I did make the print, however. The lab I ran (Labwork - the Black & White Lab) got lots of very cool work in.
I wish I could say I made the negative. I'd be pretty old, or most like, dead, by now!
I did make the print, however. The lab I ran (Labwork - the Black & White Lab) got lots of very cool work in.
How does the printed detail stand up on a glass plate with time relative to a film? Does it require an overspray to preserve it? You would think that a gelatin base holding the silver would break down with time.
So many marvelous examples of how ingenious inventors were so long ago.
ok, here's some serious old fartery...my grandma was born in one of those soddies
Folks got inventive to make the most with what they had back then in the 1800's.
Thatched roofs still exist in the UK. Nice stonework as well. Traditions were passed down from one generation to the next.
The chimney in close proximity scares me. You wouln't want any sparks getting onto the roof.
Thatched roofs still exist in the UK. Nice stonework as well. Traditions were passed down from one generation to the next.
The chimney in close proximity scares me. You wouln't want any sparks getting onto the roof.
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Wife Carey and I were just commenting on how past generations were able to raise entire families in a 1000 ft square home. Now for a family of four everyone wants five bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, bonus room, dining room, tv room, fenced in deck, and fenced in yard. Some of you are fortunate and were smart enough to have bought that when they were affordable-- we didn't and live modestly. But when it comes time to retire I feel we'll have a certain amount of mobility and freedom. We have a small place to sell, but for retirement down the road everything including where we're going to live is up in the air.
Back to the thatched roof-- very beautiful home. We could live nicely in something like that!
Absolutely beautiful!
Wife Abi and I were very lucky. We never worked at a job we didnt love, and our retirement home is where we've lived since 1986. Built in 1895. Lots of bedrooms, but nothing fancy. Bought it with 10 acres of timber for $45,000. Never had much money, but never had much debt. I retired 13 years ago. Now I play music and feed the birds.
So long as the glass doesn break, these negatives hold up just fine. And, so long as they were originally processed properly, particularly, the fixing and washing parts of the process. It is still a gelatin
Here is a hi-res file of a photograph I made from an old 8x10 glass plate.
Nice cottage!
You have a very nice, old home. Has the plumbing and electrical been updated on it? HVAC?
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The first thing that comes to mind as I take in the preceding posts is the "old cottage". My friend and her husband bought a property in Co Roscommon that was home to a solitary gentleman. The property had been vacant for a decade as litigation wound its way though the system. The cottage where he lived had only a single electric line that was installed about five years before his death - guessing ~2000.
As I was shown, the cottage was heated from a single fireplace from peat he cut. This is how it looks to me this day I visit
There is also the old, old cottage. A single room. "Probably eight or ten people lived in there" my host informs. And some sheep, I conjecture. Here is near where the old, old cottage is
As I was shown, the cottage was heated from a single fireplace from peat he cut. This is how it looks to me this day I visit
There is also the old, old cottage. A single room. "Probably eight or ten people lived in there" my host informs. And some sheep, I conjecture. Here is near where the old, old cottage is
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Very nice photo resolution.
I like old buildings like that with large windows. It allowed natural light so the workers could see.
Wish that the cottage was mine.
Dare I say that they were being bold with the blue painted bricks. What a luxury.
Sheep helped keep them warm at night. Outbuildings always have character.
We Finns like to make verbs of nouns to describe the activity-related-to-<whatever>.
A colleague was making a biography for his dissertation announcement and since he likes to spend a lot of time at his country cottage, he put in "cottaging" as his hobby.
Fortunately, he checked the term out in a dictionary.
A colleague was making a biography for his dissertation announcement and since he likes to spend a lot of time at his country cottage, he put in "cottaging" as his hobby.
Fortunately, he checked the term out in a dictionary.
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We've replaced the plumbing, electrical, windows, roof, furnace, added a/c. Redone the kitchen, both baths. Stripped off all the old varnish on the woodwork and refinished. With a big old house you really never get done. But, it's just the way we want it. Rooms for company when family or friends come, 10 steps to Abi's fiber studio, 50 yards to the bird rescue, half a mile to the nearest neighbor. Woodshop in the basement, workout room and guitar room upstairs. Mortgage was paid off 15 years ago. We did each improvement as we got the money. The only problem (here comes the GOF) is that nobody will deliver a pizza out here.
From what I've learned, bold, bright colors were actually quite popular back in those days. Perhaps, more so even, than during the Mod 1960s. Bright colors made a big comeback in the late 1920-1940s, too, particularly, in bathroom fixtures, and in kitchens.
You guys need to build a pizza oven!
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Unsurprising this verb was outside my field of awareness until now. A little more concerning might be who worries enough about the practice to wrap it into a job description as a member of the vice squad. Going to file that under "data point of no personal relevance".
Yes, walls and cottages and such, here's where I hold space. File it under "can't get there from here" (unless you know the boatman). Last human habitation was 1965, although one or two make a space for themselves in the summer. There's a spring nearby.
Over in Dublin we see how higher windows are built smaller to create the illusion of a building taller than it really is.
That spot on the water is just mesmerizing, I love the ocean, and stone also.
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