| This is my first post since returning to my photography after a three month hiatus. I decided to ease back in and concentrate on the things I find interesting, such as old homesteads. In my hometown of Gadsden, there are several places that were considered "high-class" in old days soon after the town was founded. Big houses with porches that surrounded the entire structure and were grand in scale filled the area where I took this image. As the center of town moved further south, this area and all of the glory it once held was all but forgotten. This house was directly across the street from what is considered the first house ever built in the town. You would think the area would have been preserved and kept to its former majesty. That has not been the case at all. The area is now relegated to a very questionable class of people. Slums and drugs and crime and poverty. What a shame indeed. People get all caught up in progress and forget their roots. We should celebrate the past and keep only one foot in the future. The future is always unknown and the risk is great. How is it, then, that we forget so simple a truth? |
Canon EOS 20D ISO: 1600 Exposure: 1/400 sec Aperture: f/8 Focal Length: 73 mm 35mm Equivalent: 117 mm Capture Date: Sunday October 04, 2009 12:55 pm Flash: Not Fired |
