retained-images - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Mail Pouch

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A disappearing American sight.

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Name:: Luke
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
An interesting place. It looks like its in the middle of nowhere.
Name:: Roger
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Awesome find Harry
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Indeed it is a disappearing sight, I was I had a barn like that :(
Name:: don
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Quite a shed/barn to notice and shoot. I can see why it appealed. Gotta love that sign and what is represents as part of our past. Nice shot.
Name:: P.J.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Nice capture, Harry. Interesting ads on the side of the building. An old-time barn there!
Name:: Hess
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I love this subject...did you get a chance to get closer and explore? Remember...no loitering!
Name:: Tony
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Interesting find Harry. I've not seen any buildings like this in the UK.
Name:: harry
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Unfortunately (for the photographer) this barn was on a working farm, so I had to shoot from the side of the road, perhaps 100 yards (100 m).
Name:: harry
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Advertising on the sides and roofs of barns used to be common in the US. It probably peaked in the 1950s as the US prospered domestically after WWII, and car travel for the ordinary family increased. The high speed limited access highway system built in the US starting in the late 1950s, made rustic sights like this increasingly less common. And of course, the anti-tobacco attitudes of the 1980s on made advertising for products like this less acceptable.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
I was wondering what 'mail pouch' would be but you explained.
Wonderful find.
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Photography by Harry O’Connor - Retained-Images contains mostly new photographic images, but I occasionally dip into my slide and negative archives to present a favorite shot. I try to be more about photos than photoshop, but I am always trying to improve the images I present.

My primary camera is a Sony A700 with an 18-200mm and an older 100-300mm lens.

I have a Canon PowerShot G6 converted to Infrared.

My point-and-shoot is a Sony DSC V1 that I got in August 2004, and I haven’t shot a frame of film since.

I currently live in North Carolina, but have images from many locations around the U.S and a few locations in Canada, Mexico and Europe.

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