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09/03/2010 at 17:47
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50 comments
 

• Wow, soo wonderful dramatic colors. I like the presentation with this frame very much too.
  Cerstin @ 2010-03-09 18:06:34
• I have an equal disdain for MacMansions, at least this is honestly ugly...one Grant would actually find appeasing. [posted from picturesque rural poverty] : ] : ] best...jerry
  ordinaryimages @ 2010-03-09 18:07:04
• really lovely. I love that app.
  Otto K. @ 2010-03-09 18:14:31
• And I thought they sold fried chicken. Nice coloring.
  Nick @ 2010-03-09 18:35:59
• it does look like an eyesore.. the setting, light & processing does seem to fit it though.. great shot.. :)
  rian @ 2010-03-09 18:46:57
• I like the colorcast the picture has. It does look like an eye sore! Some things just need to go!
  don @ 2010-03-09 20:04:26
• the sky!
  michele @ 2010-03-09 21:40:52
• beautiful composition on this, framing, and nice processing!
  Liang @ 2010-03-09 22:34:17
• sherri...on an iphone? wow!
  Ken @ 2010-03-10 00:09:13
• terrific framed, impressive sky and wonderful tone
  fabrizio @ 2010-03-10 00:32:53
• Cool little app you have, Sherri. Terrific shot! That is quite a common sight around here, unfortunately.
  Toni @ 2010-03-10 01:16:27
• looks amazingly cool
  yz @ 2010-03-10 01:31:56
• I have no clue what Hipstamatic app is, Sherri, but it definitely works for this image. Once again, the quote is perfect.
  Ginnie @ 2010-03-10 01:47:35
• Love the iphone effect. Perfect for this particular sight and scene. Perfect quotation!!
  Marcie @ 2010-03-10 03:23:49
• Amazing atmosphere.
  Frank de Jol @ 2010-03-10 04:23:07
• My compliments for this pretty realization
  foto-rolero54 @ 2010-03-10 05:01:58
• If all these sort of places are torn down, what will we photograph?!?
  Turnbill @ 2010-03-10 05:57:21
• It does look hideous I can understand you lookign forward to when it has gone, and a super shot of it and love the processign highlighting even more how bad it is
  JJ @ 2010-03-10 06:49:19
• It may look hideous but you have certainly given this old, sad place dignity and beauty! Sometimes change is a bit slow in coming...
  martie @ 2010-03-10 07:26:14
• Love how you did this. It almost makes you feel like you are there!
  Christopher @ 2010-03-10 07:40:47
• Love this nostalgic treatment. Very, very beautiful!
  Reiner @ 2010-03-10 08:16:36
• Love the effect, cool shot.
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2010-03-10 08:58:53
• Hmmm, looks similar to the house I grew up in. Coal miners in West Virginia don't have a lot after the coal mines start shutting down. Heck even when all the mines were going full bore they didn't have a lot. The houses were on coal mine property because most of the miners couldn't afford anywhere else. It looks like this might be on industrial property also, so who knows maybe it used to be housing for employees.
  Mark Johnson @ 2010-03-10 09:43:44
• Great colors and mood - matches the subject. Sometimes I doubt this preference of so many of us photographers for worn down subjects, but they do bear the traces of their history with honesty, without and pretense.
  Markus @ 2010-03-10 10:23:38
• love the effect, nice pic.
  Rahul @ 2010-03-10 10:23:43
• @ Mark - You're speaking of shotgun houses. My great grandfathers worked the coal mines across the Ohio river from where you grew up. They were in southern Ohio and lived in the coal camps early on and then moved to small communities surrounding the area. My grandma lived in a shotgun house all of her life.
  
  This structure isn't that old and was built as an office for a company. I like that it brought memories to you though.
  sherri @ 2010-03-10 10:27:31
• @Sherri - The coal property I grew up on you could even see the mine structures from the house similar to what is behind this building. We moved to New Mexico before I started grade school because the coal mines shut down and potash mines were opening up in New Mexico. Funny thing is over half the population of Carlsbad, NM is from West Virginia for that very reason. I went back to W.Va. a couple of years ago, and went by to see if the house was still there... turns out you can't even get on the property w/o being a mining company employee. Oh, well, cool picture though!
  Mark Johnson @ 2010-03-10 11:31:13
• EXCELLENT image - fantastic scenery, colors. mood and processing
  yiannis krikis @ 2010-03-10 11:53:59
• A dreamlike imge. Superb capture and treatment.
  Still @ 2010-03-10 14:32:30
• stunning colors in this shot! So well presented, a real eyecatcher. Even though it's hideous, it does make for a great subject!
  Arjan - PlasticDaisy @ 2010-03-10 15:57:34
• I just love this...fantastic colors, tones, great atmosphere...you can take some really great photos with the iphone and there are so many great apps to experiment with!
  Susan @ 2010-03-10 17:17:59
• very creative processing! Great image.
  kyungmee @ 2010-03-10 19:26:33
• Like your processing here... very nice and yes it do look like a eyesore..
  Ivar @ 2010-03-10 23:07:22
• Great colours, very moody, I love it!
  Zing @ 2010-03-11 01:06:21
• You created such a dramatic atmosphere! I like the tones.
  Standley @ 2010-03-11 01:42:45
• I love the colors and that dramatic sky.
  BoB @ 2010-03-11 08:54:08
• A powerful picture with a strong message. I love its somehow overdeveloped appearance and its composition.
  Arnd @ 2010-03-11 10:48:40
• Excellent photograph.
  hoi @ 2010-03-11 11:21:43
• That is so cool/ I love the use of colour.
  Michael Rawluk @ 2010-03-11 12:25:22
• Wow really came out great. Never knew the Iphone could take such great photos. Of course I guess it helps that it has someone talented taking them! :)
  Andy @ 2010-03-11 14:20:32
• Excellent green tones. Bravo!
  beanow @ 2010-03-11 14:27:09
• This really makes me want an iPhone even more! Beautiful!
  Bouncing Light @ 2010-03-11 15:44:45
• It looks like that next to it, the lot was cleared away already. Maybe that one's next! I like the processing in this and the mood it sets!
  Sandy Weston @ 2010-03-12 18:42:56
• I really love this iPhone app... does it cost 25 cents to get each picture off the phone like it did when i had a picture phone? beautiful shot Sherri
  Elaine- @ 2010-03-13 22:04:58
• Super shot, I like the polaroid feel.
  Bob Towery @ 2010-03-15 11:55:11
• I really like the Polaroid frame on this. feels quite vintage. lovely shot!
  Charles Dastodd @ 2010-03-17 07:46:05
• this is great!
  faisal @ 2010-03-17 11:35:03
• Love it! There are so many great apps out there for the iphone-opens up so many doors! Hipstamatic is my fav, I think@
  Susan @ 2010-03-17 17:52:34
• very nice!
  terrorkitten @ 2010-03-19 13:09:08
• I'm crazy about this style
  ahmad @ 2010-03-26 08:45:22

iPhone with Hipstamatic App


The day I see this place torn down I'll lick my finger and make a check mark in the air. It's right on Main Street and it looks hideous.


Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
- Anthony Trollope