You may have difficulty recognizing it, but this is the little red Rock City barn in Bryson City, North Carolina that I pictured in my previous post.
As I mentioned in my post of July 14, I had an assignment from Blue Ridge Country magazine to revisit the Rock City barns in the Smoky Mountains that were pictured in my book Rock City Barns: A Passing Era and do a photo-feature about them. I did the photography the first weekend of February, 2019 and the article appeared in the May-June issue that year.
Some barns were missing, of course, but I found nine that were still standing. Most of them a little worse for wear, but surprisingly, not changed all that much after 23 years. One even looked better because the owners had installed new siding.
But my favorite, this little barn in Bryson City, North Carolina that I photographed in December, 1995 was almost unrecognizable beneath its load of vines. If you look carefully you can still see part of the See Rock City sign. I think this landmark barn could be saved if someone were to cut away the vines and prop it up a bit, but apparently the owners feel no incentive to do that.
Sad.
(Fuji X-T1 camera, Fujichron XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OIS-II lens.)
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