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Lost Dreams

© Val Feldman
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Lost Dreams

Uploaded: July 20, 2010

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When we first moved to the Austin area some 12 years ago, the area we moved to was considered "country"...large ranches and ranchettes were commonplace along my way to the grocery store.....but one by one, for various reasons, local ranchers sold their vast pieces of acreage to housing and commercial developers. This abandoned stable was once a very small part of an extensive cattle ranch. Abandoned for some years now, it's scheduled for demolition with a housing development and strip mall soon to be in it's place

Farm-to-Market Rd. 1431, Cedar Park, TX

Exif: F Number: 14, Exposure Bias Value: 0.67, ExposureTime: 2/30 seconds, Flash: did not fire., ISO: 320, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 80.00 mm, Model: NIKON D300

Comments

Nancy (Peaches) Harker July 24, 2010

So sad, to demolish the last part of history
Beautifully capture and excellent effects! #1291311

Rony Sagy July 24, 2010

What a gorgeous capture of the current sad reality. Wonderful dreamy impression of the leaves and the little barn. Exquisite. #8784490

Patti Coblentz July 25, 2010

How disgusting...strip malls replacing such beauty!! What an incredible way you have captured this, Val...like a dream...so beautiful...artistic and meaningful! #8785066

Kathy Salerni level-classic July 25, 2010

I am so glad that you shot the barn before it was destroyed! Strip Mall no less! and you have captured it beautifully, Val. Your treatment is very cool and makes it look like a dream! (which I guess is all it will be soon). #8785191

Leslie McLain level-classic July 25, 2010

Love the dreamlike quality of this imaage, Valarie. #8785410

Patrick Rouzes level-classic July 25, 2010

It is like a dream, Valarie! I grew up in the country & scenes like this one are what I remember about my summers as a boy! I used to enjoy traipsing through the woods & discovering places like this. I can almost hear the rustle of the leaves & the buzz of the bees............ Ok, I better come back to the present,lol. What a scene to get lost in! Exceptional job on this, Valarie! This image will live on long after this beauty is no longer there! #8785545

Val Feldman level-deluxe July 26, 2010

I grew up the same way, Paddy and had the same conjuring up of childhood memories when I saw this...glad it took you back to those times, too!

Thanks so much everyone for your comments on this one - I appreciate, as always! ~Val #8786686

Carol L. Fowler July 26, 2010

That's the way it goes. Beautiful bit of passing history. #8787709

Julie Burnett July 27, 2010

Beautiful, Val. Your treatment does give it a wonderful dreamlike quality. What a sad thought to think of all of this beauty gone. #8788930

Val Feldman level-deluxe July 27, 2010

Thanks, all, for your comments on this one...always appreciated! ~Val #8789232

Danny B. Head July 27, 2010

It will be gone soon, but the image will last forever! #8789830

Gina Cormier July 27, 2010

OMG!!!!!!!!!! I missed this one too!!!!!!!
I should be shot.......hung by my toes......made to eat wet leaves.....GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE FORGIVE ME MY QUEEN!!!!!!

This is a magnificent dreamy composition!!!! (sigh!) #8789842

Marty Straub July 28, 2010

Sad contrast. This is so much more inviting than another Walmart. Like the dreamy look you give it, Valarie. #8791150

Ruth E. Foster-Lindsay July 29, 2010

Beautiful capture Valarie! It is a shame beautiful captures like this are falling to strip malls! Hang on to this one Valarie! :-) #8794077

Dianna Murphy August 05, 2010

oh I hate seeing old relics like this torn down and forgotten. So much history there. What a gorgeous image, the color and the treatment you've added are sensational. #8808418

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