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Published: 2012-02-21 00:37:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 9551; Favourites: 722; Downloads: 0
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It is always amazing to me, that these houses used stones from the surrounding fields as the basic building material.Prints available at The Untapped Source [link]
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just the right amount of hdr. great job, i love this photo
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lol... it would be... if it were an HDR. Unfortunately... it is not an HDR and I do not generally do HDR,
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I want a house that looks like that :3 it looks so beautiful *Faved* Lovely photo ^_^
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It is a beautiful house. In its day it must have been very grand.
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Wow I've always been interested in this sort of thing. I'm not sure what it is about me and decrepit buildings. But this is just fascinating to look at. They built it out of stones they just found? That really is something. I like how you can see the age and that the house has more or less stood the test of time. I wonder how old it is?
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The house is abut 130 years old. The stones are collected from the field then cut and shaped to fit. The process taken more than a year.
Your experience and feeling about old houses is not uncommon. I currently have a show called "Voice of the Pioneer" that is touring Manitoba. It is scheduled to run from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2103. The show is 38 images from a collection of over 150. It is in my gallery
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wow i would soo spend my days in there . painting probly . amazing .
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Thanks Jovani,
I too plan to return, I hope to get morning light this time.
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Every each time I am getting stunned when I saw your buildings. Your style gives another chance to be alive for some more time my friend. Thanks for sharing
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Thank you Ayhan, these are very kind words.
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They are my honest feeling about your compositions and you know it very well
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yes I know Ayhan, and I always appreciate your words. But what you probably do not know my friend, is that I appreciate your words more than from so many others. So once again, I sat thank you. you are like a brother.
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I am honored very much and felt great because Δ± heard such words from you dear Wayne. Hope to have chances to visit your gallery during many more years and enjoy with your beautiful compositions 
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Any clue about who used to live there? It's such a beautiful house ;-;
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Hi carolina,
at this point I do not know the history of this house. But I plan to go back this spring, and so perhaps I will be able to find out.
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Hopefully you'll find out a great story!
Congratulations for the shot and good luck!
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wow, so sad to see such a beautiful home fall apart..
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I think that is a matter of perspective. Sad yes in so many ways, but OK in others.... like I get a new subject to photograph.
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kind of gives me the chills... i like it.
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me too... entry was not possible.
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Where is this house? app age? Great shot. Looks like the back may be in worse condition than the front. Thanks for sharing.
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it would have been built in the late 1800's as a farm house. It is located in Manitoba.
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They've actually bothered squaring off a lot of that stone in order to build in courses. That's a lot of work considering its rural location and otherwise lack of ornamentation.
The amount of work that used to go into even unimportant buildings like houses is amazing, these days it's difficult to build a house in stone for less than it's market value.
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As I understand the process, in the spring and summer, the stones were gathered from the fields. This process continued after harvest and into the fall. In the fall and winter the stones were cut and squared. Then in the following spring, construction began. The process took a crew of masons. Of course, even as construction was proceeding, more stones would be gathered and squared until there was enough for the building to be completed.
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I love this.... so haunting. Whenever I see old buildings like that, I always imagine who lived there, what happened there, what the nature around it used to look like....
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Thanks for commenting.
I think your experience is quite common. At least it is one that I hear quite often.
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I'm not alone then!
If you want to think I'm weird then, I think the front and back of cars look like faces
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nope.. not weird.. if the picture is taken right, the headlights will follow you around the room just like eyes.
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LOL I can see that happening!!
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once again one of your pictures transport me to another place. woah!
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The second I saw this, my creativity took hold of my brain, and ideas for beginnings of multiple possible stories began to form in my head. It's such a gorgeous setting!
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Well if you do happen to write a story, I would very gladly post or link it to the print. (I would also post the story with the print if the print ever makes it into a show)
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really nice shot! Calm and tense. From where did you find this house? There arenΒ΄t any nearby where I live... which is a shame
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There are 6-10 houses like this in the town where I live (they are all still in use). This one was taken about 400 km west in an area where stone was used a lot. In the town near to this house, half the houses are stone or brick and every street intersection has at least one stone house on a corner and often more.
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That is so mesmerizing.
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In these modern times of artificial scarcity created by global corporations, and also in the context of needing to be more environmentally sustainable, this kind of local-material construction is on the rebound.
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I don't see that happening here yet hoyt. The problem is our winters. Houses like this take hundreds of dollars a month to heat. My total yearly bill would not heat a house like this for a month in January. The big thing out here is using straw bails for walls. It makes a super insulated home and if the vapour barrier is on right, it retains a lot of heat.
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Clearly, a stone house built today would require heavy insulation to make it efficient. I've seen quite a lot of documentation about the use of straw bale insulation used in conjunction with adobe, compressed earth bricks, and other local materials.
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