Re: PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost
Thanks, everyone! Lots of late returns on this pic. Personally, I prefer the uncropped version to the cropped one I posted subsequently (with cropped in the subject line). Marnie, I confess that I never noticed the blue splotch! Now I can't avoid it. Weird. Rick --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/27/2006 6:25:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick Nice textures and detail. Like it. (I would remove the blue splotch at the bottom, though, tarp?, trash?). Nice. Marnie aka Doe http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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In a message dated 4/28/2006 6:14:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marnie, I confess that I never noticed the blue splotch! Now I can't avoid it. Weird. Rick Hehehehehe. Glad to be of help. Marnie ;-)
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I like it. Nice detail on the tree trunks and the stone pattern is appealing. Plus i like old fences. Cotty can verify.:-) Dave Quoting Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Equine Photography in York Region
Re: PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost
On 4/22/06, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW I like the perspective. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Frank, Just saw this thread. I like it!. Strikes me as a physical expression of time. I, also, feel it's enhanced by a well caught perspective. Jack --- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/06, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW I like the perspective. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost
In a message dated 4/27/2006 6:25:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick Nice textures and detail. Like it. (I would remove the blue splotch at the bottom, though, tarp?, trash?). Nice. Marnie aka Doe
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Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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I agree with Bob in this. Doesn't look like a stone wall or fence to me. Nice picture BTW. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. april 2006 11:47 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Old Stone Wall--repost Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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You often see these in New England. At one time, what are now woods, was probably a farmer's field. Typically if the field had stones in it that hampered plowing, they would move them to the edge of the field, along the fence line. Often you see these in a zig-zag pattern that followed the path of the now rotted away split rail fence that was used to mark the boundary of the field. -P Bob W wrote: Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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Thanks - that makes sense. -- Cheers, Bob -Original Message- From: Paul Sorenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2006 14:55 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Old Stone Wall--repost You often see these in New England. At one time, what are now woods, was probably a farmer's field. Typically if the field had stones in it that hampered plowing, they would move them to the edge of the field, along the fence line. Often you see these in a zig-zag pattern that followed the path of the now rotted away split rail fence that was used to mark the boundary of the field. -P Bob W wrote: Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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It's typical of a lot of stone walls in New England that have crumbled over the years due to frost heaves, tree roots and other acts of nature. Paul On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: I agree with Bob in this. Doesn't look like a stone wall or fence to me. Nice picture BTW. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. april 2006 11:47 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Old Stone Wall--repost Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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In Norway most stone walls are made simply because the farmer needs a place to put the stones from the field. When the pile is big enough, they built a fence/wall out of it, to get it out of the way. To me, this looks like a fence in a premature stage. But I'm not willing to make any bets on it, just a qualified(?) guess. It is also possible that it has been a fence, and later somebody has taken most of the stones away for other purposes. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. april 2006 17:33 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Old Stone Wall--repost It's typical of a lot of stone walls in New England that have crumbled over the years due to frost heaves, tree roots and other acts of nature. Paul On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: I agree with Bob in this. Doesn't look like a stone wall or fence to me. Nice picture BTW. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. april 2006 11:47 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Old Stone Wall--repost Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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The typical English landscape is a patchwork of fields enclosed by drystone walls, or hedges. But enclosure is associated with the loss of common rights and the driving of small farmers and poor people off the land, and into the cities and factories at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This concentrated land ownership in the hands of people who were already wealthy and powerful, and helped to create the class divisions in this country. -- Cheers, Bob -Original Message- From: Tim Øsleby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2006 17:25 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Old Stone Wall--repost In Norway most stone walls are made simply because the farmer needs a place to put the stones from the field. When the pile is big enough, they built a fence/wall out of it, to get it out of the way. To me, this looks like a fence in a premature stage. But I'm not willing to make any bets on it, just a qualified(?) guess. It is also possible that it has been a fence, and later somebody has taken most of the stones away for other purposes. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. april 2006 17:33 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Old Stone Wall--repost It's typical of a lot of stone walls in New England that have crumbled over the years due to frost heaves, tree roots and other acts of nature. Paul On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: I agree with Bob in this. Doesn't look like a stone wall or fence to me. Nice picture BTW. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -Original Message- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. april 2006 11:47 To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Old Stone Wall--repost Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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Actually that is probably just where the edge of a field was and the rocks that came to the surface in plowing were tossed there out of the way. These are quite common in the hilly regions of the eastern US. So in a sense it is a boundary marker, but an unintended one. You will notice that they are not the type of stones one would chose to lay an unmortared wall. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Bob W wrote: Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 do stone walls fall down in that way? Have you any idea who built it? I mean, was it built by Europeans, or by Indians? It looks less like a wall and more like some kind of boundary marker to me. Bob
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Paul, The location is beside the Guilford Suites Motel, along U.S. 1 in Guilford, CT (about 20 min E of New Haven). Weird area of strip malls separated by pretty woods. The walls are mostly 18th century in that area, and served as a way to get rid of all the rocks that got in the way of farming, while marking boundaries. The reversion to woods has been mostly in the last 50-80 years, as the farms were abandoned. Rick --- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fascinating. Where is it? How old is it? Nicely captured. Very little has appeared on the list tonight. Only one of three posts that I sent has appeared. Something is amiss. Paul On Apr 22, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost
What really catches my eye is the cool lighting on the tree trunks on the left. I'd almost be inclined to crop some of the bottom off and concentrate on the trees. The lighting is very good and your composition is nice. Overall, I really like it. -- Bruce Saturday, April 22, 2006, 8:03:41 PM, you wrote: RW Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still RW not appeared on the list. RW RW Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and RW I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England RW stone wall while wandering with my ist D: RW http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 RW FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't RW showing the shutter speed. RW All comments welcome. RW Rick RW http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW RW __ RW Do You Yahoo!? RW Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around RW http://mail.yahoo.com
PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost
Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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Fascinating. Where is it? How old is it? Nicely captured. Very little has appeared on the list tonight. Only one of three posts that I sent has appeared. Something is amiss. Paul On Apr 22, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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While it looks like a line of trees and a line of rocks I am sure it was a stone wall at some time. What is the archeological insight into the photograph? I like the monotone nature of the color photo with the green veg and rocks standing out. - Original Message - From: Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax List pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 10:03 PM Subject: PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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I saw this earlier today and commented on it. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Old Stone Wall--repost Sending this again, because after 5 hours it has still not appeared on the list. Three weeks ago we were travelling in Connecticut, and I came upon this classic (but tumbledown) New England stone wall while wandering with my ist D: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4367728 FA 16-45, ISO 400, f/11, and for some reason PE4 isn't showing the shutter speed. All comments welcome. Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
