Country Home in Drummonds

I photographed a home this week in Drummonds, TN.  It was an older home that made me think of my grandparents.  I could imagine an apple pie baking in the oven while I sat on the front porch swing drinking sweet tea.  

The property sat on 3 acres with various fruit trees and backed up next to a wooded area.  I can only imagine how pretty this place will be when the leaves change color.  In the back yard I can imagine a fire pit where hot dogs and marshmallows are roasted.

I took a partial shot of the home from the back door.  It's not really a typical MLS real estate shot but the composition reminds me of all the old country homes I would find as I roamed around the countryside looking for scenes to photograph.  While I was taking the photo I could see the scene in monochrome and edited it to bring the viewer back in time.

Photographing this property brought back a lot of happy memories for me.  It's on the market and looking for a new family to call it home.  If you're looking for a really affordable home in the Drummonds, TN area, this is the place.  For more information, check out the listing: 75 Caughron Road, Drummonds, TN

Hidden Treasures

I started photographing rural Tennessee scenes in the Fall of 2012.  Since that time I have created a huge online gallery of images.  This consists mostly old barns, abandoned houses, cemeteries and rural landscapes.

In the beginning I would edit all my photos and typically create some monochrome images out of most of the images.  I regret creating so many monochromes right after a photo outing because it was just to get the pictures done, upload them to the website with the hopes of a print sale, and then quickly move onto the next thing.

Many times I go back through those images and the monochrome edits are not what I would do today.  It's a rushed version and mostly a monochrome edit copied and pasted from another scene in the set.  It's as if I threw my work out to the world without much thought.

Yesterday I was going through a batch of photos from one particular location in Henning, TN.  At the time I edited them I thought they were OK, but I wasn't in love with the captures.  As I looked back on them yesterday I felt they were little treasures that had been overlooked.  There was even one particular photo that was perfect for a conversion to add to my Blue Series Gallery.

What I have learned is to slow down and not be in such a hurry to edit and get finished with everything.  It's best to leave things sit a while and come back.

The Red Bush & Old Porch

This one always caught my eye as I drove by so I decided to go out early one morning at sunrise and photograph the place. So I'm standing in a ditch photographing with my tripod and camera and some lady comes along and tells me the people across the street were about ready to call the police because they thought I was deer hunting. Apparently people do that around here, they stand in a ditch along a country road and deer hunt. To me that sounds silly, but I really have never lived in such a rural area so some of the things that happen around here seem pretty odd. Also, it puzzled me they thought a camera with a wide angle lens on a tripod would look like a gun to hunt with. The moral of this story is when you stand in a ditch and photograph an old house someone may think you are getting ready to shoot a deer.

A Spot Along The Road

One of the spots I have visited a couple times to photograph is on the outskirts of Henning, Tennessee.  An old store and farmhouse sit on the corner.  The day I photographed these images was the third time I have photographed the place and it is probably my favorite.  The sky was blue and full of clouds.  Wish I had a time machine so I could go back many years ago and see what these places were like when they were relatively new.

I Went Out Today!!!!

I have not been out photographing since November.  There are reasons for this.  Today I made myself get out.  It is cold.  'Bout froze my fingers.

I have those little stretchy gloves, which are fine, but in order to feel the dials on my camera, I cut slits in the pointer and thumb fingers of the glove.  Makes for two very cold fingers while the rest stay warm.  Visited some new places, but went back to some places I have photographed several times.  Below is one of those places.  As of today, I think this is probably the best photo of this place I have taken.  Glad I went out.