Sunday, February 2, 2014

Barn Storming

A man in Georgia messaged me on the Lost in Florida Facebook page. He said he travels Georgia and North Florida photographing barns and they are rapidly fading away. Well, one thing that certainly isn't in any dire strait of soon fading are the growing army of photographers covering every inch of the countryside in search of said barns.
I feel at times it was just another unnecessary brick in the already tall wall to make another such page devoted to such in the Lost in Florida Facebook page. Just last week this From Far Away or was it Old Florida or one of many such pages I saw invaded my "territory" and photographed an old house I frequently pass. They said it was in Columbia County, it was Union. They speculated who lived there. Another wrote that it was not a house but a store moved to the current location by Mr Croft from Lulu. And so this photographer who wants to sentimentalize everything was soundly picked apart. I suppose, get your facts straight before posting would be in order.
Point being, there is a plethora of such photographers capturing these old buildings before what I called the Termite people come along to tear them down for their grand homes, where they use the old wood on the walls and the floors. To the land owning, well-heeled and settled go the spoils of the past.
I am just trying to point out nice places to become lost in, yet the photographs that garner this most "hits" are the old buildings. So, I suppose we haven't reached saturation accompanied by boredom point yet, but it is coming, it is coming.

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