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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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the problem with insulating a stone house, as I understand it, is that insulation allows the walls to freeze. That creates huge stresses in the walls and they begin to break down
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There's no easy answer to that.
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lol... more than is reasonable... I would guess in the $750,000 range.
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I guess I'll have to wait until I'm a super-successful CEO before I can get my dream Canadian hunting lodge...
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lol... I suppose. It would probably be cheaper to just build new. Partly because there are very few stone masons left who now how to do this kind of work.
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I love the subject, but I would prefer to see it in black and white.
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thanks... we all have preferences.
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What so strange about that? Stone houses?
BTW That house looks like a good house but it is probably not that old - no more that 100-200 years old. Where is it located? What country?
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Stone houses are not very common in most of this country, especially these build from field stone. This particular house is probably around 130 years old. It is located on Manitoba, in an area where building with stone was very common. As a result there are hundreds of stone houses here, still very much in use. But while the numbers are high in this small area, one can drive for hours and not see another example.
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Ah, Canada! 
OK. Sorry!
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lol... that is a good comparison.... though meeting a white bear where I live would be very strange too, they are all about 1200 kms north from where I live. (I live just a few Km north of the USA)
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I don't know much about white bears but what I know generally about bears. It wouldn't be a big business for a bear to take a quick 1200 km walk Southwards to eat some Southerner. Obviously they have enough tourists to eat where they are, that's why they stay there.
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lol... tourists and seals.
The tourists visit in large tundra bugies that the bears cannot get into. But Polar Bears and not afraid of humans so there is always a risk, especially in towns like Churchill that are located along the Bay.
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painful blue, empty house's sadness.
Nice shot.
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Sigh, and here I live in a vinyl sided house.
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lol... well be happy about that. Stone houses are very costly to keep warm, especially up here.
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I suppose so but I love stone houses and also log cabins.
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Oh yes, I do too. My uncle built a log cabin, and I always enjoyed visiting there. There are a number of log cabins and older houses in the Voice of the Pioneer Collection. This show is on tour in Manitoba for 2012-2013. The collection can be seen in my gallery at dA.
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Wow, your photos are amazing. My photos of buildings are usually small town buildings with some farms and log cabins for good measure. Living in Pennsylvania we don't have the wide expanse of prairie that you captured. It adds to the loneliness of the structures.
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Thanks Jeanie
I don't see any problem with your pictures. If you have it available, use a polarizing filter and check out the rule of thirds. That is about the only difference that i can see.
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Thanks for your advice. I don't have a polarizing filter. Darn that rule of thirds!! ha ha Sometimes I take time to compose but mostly not. I consider my photos "snapshots" not real photography. I usually have my grandsons 4 and 6 with me to it's snap and go with them yelling "hurry up Grandma".
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don't pose the grand children, let them do their thing. They will learn to just ignore you over time, and when they do... you will get some fantastic shots.
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ha ha I didn't mean I was taking photos of them, I meant they were with me when I'm trying to take photos. They hate it when I stop to take photos. I was looking over my gallery and darn, I have to stop centering everything. Sometimes though, with some of the buildings, I'm trying to crop out stuff I don't want to show. I'll have to try harder in the future.
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Cropping with lenses is very easy IF you remember this... zoom lenses do not magnify. It know it seems like they do, but I won't get into the reasons I say it. Think of lenses like this... a lens is either a narrow or a wide angle lens. If you want to exclude things in the background, use a narrower angle lens and back away from your subject to retain subject size in the camera. If on the other hand, you want to include the background, use a wider angle lens. In short, lenses change angle of view, not magnification, but this is often not understood.
If you are interested, look in my gallery below my ID. There is a section with journal entries about camera and processing ideas. They are there for the taking. I also have a book that I use in my classes that gives an overview of cameras, lenses and artistic considerations.
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Great, I will take a look.
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Indeed it is amazing that we can build houses from basic materials. Besides, such houses have always it's own identity, that is what I like the most of all of it.
Thanks for sharing, Wayne!
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Thanks Frank,
these old housed have always spoken to me, it is good to know that they speak to others as well.
As you know, 38 of the images in this series are touring Manitoba as we speak. I have been wanting to provide some music to accompany the show. What do you think of that idea?
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Hi Wayne, I think it is a great idea to have music with these images! Maybe some clasic music with violines, some images would be great to accompany with gregorian music. I mean the music must have some spiritual imspiration. That would be great
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I have written a musician who writes music that may be suitable. We will see what happens.
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Cool! Let me know if he had composed something, I'm intrested to hear his music.
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Yes, that would be perfect for these photos.
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thanks for your opinion. He has yet to respond to my proposal.
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The first thing I think when I look at this picture is "home". Reminds me of a quiet music by David Arkenstone, bu too bad I don't have a link to the piece.
Wonderful image
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I agree, I listed to David Arkinstone, "Tower of Light" and I can see how this music fits the piece.
This image is part of a collection called voice of the pioneer. I have been wondering how it would show if I could get some appropriate music. I think you have found it for me.
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That's great. This is the first time I met someone who listened to David music. Well, the piece is called "Trail to heaven" from the album "Himalayan passage".
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I have written him and asked if he wants to collaborate on a show I am doing in May-june. This is the largest gallery and I have been in and it will contain almost 80 of my pieces.
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Wow, that's very interesting.
Good luck!
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Awesome photo! I agree, it's awesome to see such "natural" houses!
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