Another good technique for keeping the vertical lines vertical in your photographs is to back off and use a longer lens -- if you have room to do it. These aren't great examples of the technique, but are the best I could find without some deep digging in my files.
Above is the Rock City "birdhouse" barn in it's original location beside Interstate 75 in Dalton, Georgia. It was painted by Clark Byers, the original barn painter, and his son Freddie in 1967. In 2001/02 it was dismantled and put back together in a field at the foot of Lookout Mountain below Rock City. When all the other Rock City barns are gone, as they inevitably will be at some time in the future, people will still be able to see this one.
This second example is from my limited edition book Georgia: A Backroads Portrait. They are called "shotgun" houses because the rooms are all in a row from front to back. Theoretically, one could fire a gun in the front door and the bullet would go straight through and out the back door with no obstruction. I found these three on an obscure road in west central Georgia while looking for "lost" Rock City barns.
About the photos: Both were made with a Canon EOS A2 camera, probably with the Canon EF 28-105mm lens. The film, as usual, was Fujichrome 100.
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