IMAGE HOSTING BY FLICKR.
I'm fond of photographing old buildings in the late afternoon sun. For example, there's this.
I took this picture in or around 1998. I'd been wanting to get it for months, but it stands on a highway between one frequently-visited Florida town and a smaller outlying town, and that road was always busy.
But on this particular occasion, I HAD to get the shot. It was my favorite time of day just before sunset, and the sun was slanting down and shining right on the rusted roof and worn boards.
The yellow grass you see wasn't really yellow; it was green. The yellow is the reflection of the sunlight in the surface of the grass. The light was so intense that it even changed the color of the roof. This photograph doesn't do it justice because nothing could, but it gives you seem sense of it.
Maybe I love this photograph because it brings back the moment. The slight tilt of the photo---a feature, sadly, of many of the photos that I took----happened because I snapped it hurriedly; it was late afternoon and traffic was FLYING past. I was standing on the other side of the highway and I had to take it when there was a break in the traffic.
The last time I drove past it looked completely different. I didn't have time to analyze how. I don't know if it's because it had been repaired or because it had fallen further into disrepair. It looked paler than I remembered. Afterward I wondered if the difference wasn't due to the fact that it didn't have the afternoon sun shining on it.
I wonder if it is still there.
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