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A Little Short

I don't know the story of this short little building but found it interesting. 

Until a left-handed camera is made, I won't be taking many new photos.  Luckily, I have enough in the files to do for awile.

Click to Play:
C'mon a My House - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Walk Right In - Dan Hicks

A walk today:  An Island Walk

A Little Short

I don't know the story of this short little building but found it interesting. 

Until a left-handed camera is made, I won't be taking many new photos.  Luckily, I have enough in the files to do for awile.

Click to Play:
C'mon a My House - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Walk Right In - Dan Hicks

A walk today:  An Island Walk

comments (24)

  • Ginnie
  • United States
  • 8 Jan 2008, 00:58
What a strange find, Mary! Makes you wonder what that's all about. You have such wonderful spots to explore all around you.

I know what you mean about left-handed cameras, BTW. I once took a photo of the ring on my right hand and had to snap the photo with my left. OMG! That was very weird. You have all my sympathy!
Mary MacADNski: I'm very frustrated by it all. I had a glass commission for the winter, and was just finishing a bunch of paintings to change the studio over from paint to glass. I can't make jewelry or take a decent photo. My hyperactive self is going a bit stir crazy.
  • Jewlya
  • United States
  • 8 Jan 2008, 03:09
Oh my goodness, those colors! Delightful!

Now, why the need for a left-handed camera? Did you break your right? I'm so sorry! If so, sounds like a good time to play with pinhole cameras! I remember all the pictures I took with those as a child and I've been wanting to go back and try it again now that I know more about photography.
Mary MacADNski: I dislocated my shoulder and tore all the tendons in my right arm. My right arm is immobilized for 6 weeks.
Very nice shot.
I am a short guy. Maybe I would fit in there.
Mary MacADNski: A new home for you! Surrounded by roses.
  • Kay
  • rainy pacific northwest
  • 8 Jan 2008, 03:41
Such a beautiful shot, Mary. I love all of the vibrant and soft colors. Wonderful comp too.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Kay. The foreground is filled with rosehips. Can you imagine the great smell there in the summer when the wild roses are in bloom?
Impressive how nature is strong when human beeings do not prevent her from beeing alive !
Mary MacADNski: Yes, Florence, nature truly is a wonder.
  • ray
  • Thailand
  • 8 Jan 2008, 07:58
Hilarious post, Mary.
Possibilities:
1. Built on quicksand
2. Has a sunken floor, so no need for high walls
3. Built by the seven dwarves
4. other

Regarding left-hand cameras...no problem at all for you if you take pictures over your shoulder and with your back to the subject...you will be surprised about the results once you have practised a little.
Mary MacADNski: The quicksand one is funny to me because we had encountered some deep, soft, quicksand-like mud the week before when my friend who was with us this day too, fell in. What a time and what a mess.

I will try the over the shoulder technique. Heck, I'll try anything!
  • Ann
  • Sucé sur Erdre - France
  • 8 Jan 2008, 08:05
Beautiful colours !!! I love the touch of orange at frontside !!! Well done !!!
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Anne. The orange is from rosehips leaves that haven't fallen yet.
  • mickyboy
  • Great Britain (UK)
  • 8 Jan 2008, 08:25
looks like the incredible sinking house. nice capture
Mary MacADNski: I can't help but wonder why.
  • Louis
  • South Africa
  • 8 Jan 2008, 09:07
I think this building was creeping up on you in the tall grass/ferns/whatever when you turned around and caught it in the act tongue

Great shot of a strange find. The colours of the plantgrowth where the building is hiding is very much intriguing on the beautiful scale.
Mary MacADNski: LOL, Louis. You could be right there. The red in the bushes is birch. I love the colour of their bare branches in winter. The middle and foreground are rosehips with still a few yellowed leaves. Gorgeous, aren't they?
  • Astrid
  • The Netherlands
  • 8 Jan 2008, 09:40
Mary I know your frustration....it is killing you, but I am glad you still have an archive with pics, I think they are as stunning as this one, a likey to me, love the colors...
Mary MacADNski: I am getting out today and that will help. It is being here among all the things I had been planning to do.....

Thanks for choosing this as a likey. That doesn't happen often.
  • Aussie
  • back on nights.
  • 8 Jan 2008, 10:35
Beautiful gentle colours in this Mary.
Mary MacADNski: The colours really are beautiful aren't they.
  • Kathryn
  • United States
  • 8 Jan 2008, 12:06
The colors are fantastic. The building looks like just the roof of a building!
Mary MacADNski: Either the sides are very short or have collapsed. I couldn't tell which.
Beautiful colours Mary.
Mary MacADNski: Ther're subtle yet vibrant somehow.
  • Tracy
  • Stoke on Trent UK
  • 8 Jan 2008, 14:38
Love the shot Mary, it looks either over grown or a building for midgets.smilesmile
Love the colours in this shot too.smile
Mary MacADNski: A building for the wee, I think.
Very nice capture Mary. I love the colours. It shows you as strong the nature is!
Mary MacADNski: Always hanging on, Richard.
  • tim
  • leeds, uk
  • 8 Jan 2008, 18:42
great shot Mary, the colors are just fabuloussmile
Mary MacADNski: They're subtle but vibrant. Weird.
  • Pops
  • United Kingdom
  • 8 Jan 2008, 18:53
An absolute belter of a shot and what a find. You have captured tha colours so well.
That must be a roof that got blown off someones building or that vegeatation is awfully high
Mary MacADNski: My guess is that the walls have collapsed but don't really know. for sure. There is some wall on the structure.
  • liam
  • South Africa
  • 8 Jan 2008, 19:27
drowned in a sea of colour. This is a great shot...definitely the seven dwarfs! smile
Mary MacADNski: Seven dwarfs or a hobbit house. A big forest of rosebushes... I think we may have the beginning of a story.
Well mary, if your files are full of photographs like this, we will not be suffering - even though you may be climbing the walls! Fabulous colour, and what a strange find! Really sets the mind wondering about the story of this building. (:o)
Mary MacADNski: That's sweet, Rosalyn, as you always are. I wonder about it too.
Perhaps it could be a holiday home for my long bullgrin.

Tripod?

Hope the shoulder gets better soon, it must be so frustrating.
Mary MacADNski: It would be fitting. Long and low. No, I never use a tripod.
I'm going fine as i got out today.
  • Ellie
  • United Kingdom
  • 9 Jan 2008, 00:17
It looks as if the wolf has been there, and blown the house down wink

I do hope you're healing OK, and that at the end of the six weeks you'll be fine. Horrid injury.
Mary MacADNski: That's the perfect answer, Ellie. The big, bad wolf. I hope I'm healing too.
Ahahh! I understand the one of the camera for left-handed people! I give an advice you? It uses the tripod! grin In this photo you have obtained very special colors and without a doubt the building is peculiar!
Mary MacADNski: I don't have a tripod but that would work. Yes, the building is very peculiar. Maybe it is a home for hobbits or elves.

No tengo un trípode pero ése trabajaría. Sí, el edificio es muy peculiar. Es quizá un hogar para los hobbits o los duendes.
  • Dave Wilkins
  • Recovering from surgery in Ireland
  • 17 Jan 2008, 11:26
It's like nature has decided to reclaim the land..."Well if you're not using it I'll have it back thank you!"
Mary MacADNski: I think that's exactly it! I'd say it started to rot from the bottom....
Amazing colors for a strange effect as if an house was sinking in the grass ! A great one !
Mary MacADNski: I wish I knew the story..........

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