Northwest Autumn 2006 (EXTREME DIAL-UP WARNING)

[regnaD kciN]

superconnected and I, fresh off our status as The Most Recent Two DU Photo Contest Winners (brag, gloat, boast, be generally obnoxious ;-) ), met during her lunch break on Wednesday to drive up into the hills outside Seattle and try to catch some fall foliage.

These were all taken along one road in the Cascade foothills, between housing developments crowded wall-to-wall with McMansions.



































On the way back, we passed an old abandoned barn right next to an office park.











A park directly across the street from the barn.





Now, it's superconnected's turn...

[superconnected]

1. Here are mine!

[JeffR]

3. The one of the slender birches making a backdrop to the maple

is my favorite of these. But, as in regnaD's set, the barn photos are most compelling for me. If we ever have an "old barn" contest - that is, if such a thing didn't already happen before my time - you both have some entries here that would set the standard for everyone else.

Nice work, both of you.

[regnaD kciN]

9. On "old barn" contests...

If we ever have an "old barn" contest - that is, if such a thing didn't already happen before my time - you both have some entries here that would set the standard for everyone else.

Actually, we've never had an "old barn" contest here.

I've been threatening to push for it as a topic for next month's contest, when I can submit an entry and superconnected can't. :evilgrin:

[JeffR]

10. It'd be a great theme

and of course I'm not saying that just because I have a bunch of old barn shots in the archives...:evilgrin:

[Eurobabe]

15. Yes do, I have a cool one from New Hampshire - air conditioned (the barn)

:D

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I think your second barn shot is my favorite,

and I love those leaves in the first one.

[regnaD kciN]

7. ...mine, too!

That was the "best of the bunch" of our barn exteriors, IMHO.

[Mz Pip]

16. Terrific pics

I don't know what I'm going to enter since we don't really have spectacular seasonal changes here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The light is different but I doubt someone from anywhere else would really notice the difference.

We're having summer weather now. It was freezing in the summer. :shrug:

I love the barn photos. I have a love of old barn pictures. I spent some of my childhood on a farm in Nebraska and those old bard pictures are quite nostalgic for me.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[JeffR]

2. The park shot is an amazing color contrast

The lawn there looks like spring grass, but the trees scream fall. The colors look edible.

Love the second shot where the red leaves at the end of the branch look like cardinals ready to take wing.

The barn shots are really wonderful, especially the second one. Few things are as compelling as an old barn, especially the ones that hang on in the face of encroaching "civilization". This particular one looks like it would offer a hundred great subjects within its walls.

Thanks for sharing these. As you mentioned in another thread, there's a sense of time closing down around us at this time of year. You've captured it here, and a lot more.

[regnaD kciN]

8. An odd thing about that barn...

There's a huge wild berry bush growing all the way up to the second-story loft door. Entangled in the bush is the rusted metal frame from an old chair.



I have no idea how it got there. Did it fall out of the loft and get caught? Or was it originally on the ground, and the bush lifted it up ten or twelve feet as it grew? Was it originally a whole chair, and the rest of it decayed until only the frame was left?

I didn't originally include this image because it didn't seem to me to be that good a photo, but I thought it might be interesting as a curiosity.

[JeffR]

12. Wow

Can't tell from the photo whether it fell or was pushed up. Either way, that's pretty amazing.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. My favorites here are 1 and 7, regnaD

but they're all really beautiful. And I agree with JeffR on the barns - very cool.

[Cobalt Violet]

6. I just love those moss covered trees.

I don't see that around here. I love the barn shots too.

[ConsAreLiars]

11. Nice work, both of you.

Have you thought about approaching businesses like motels or offices where the walls are usually covered with some kind of "art" and trying to negotiate a deal for replacing their kitsch/crap with real photos? I've wondered if something like this would be doable, and this collection was a reminder of how a themed collection of good photos would be far superior to the Blah nothingness usually encountered in such locations.

(edit cuz something always needs fixing)

[MissHoneychurch]

13. Great autumn pictures, both of you!!!

:thumbsup:

regna, I esp. like your third picture, it catched my eye.

superconnected, the second last is beautiful.

[Eurobabe]

14. Wow, look at those MAPLES!!

Gorgeous! Cripes, next fall I will come to Seattle for October photos...

Very beautiful. I may try to get some photos here of what's left, but it's raining tomorrow, the beech trees are turning.