Rock City Barn RCB-GA-38: U.S. 27 at Rock Spring, Walker County, GA.
For years I passed by this little barn on U.S. Highway 27, just south of Rock Spring. It had lived a long and varied life and was now fading into oblivion. Most recently, it had borne a sign for Sterchi Furniture; now, even that was mostly gone.
It had long ago vanished from Rock City's records, but once upon a time, before the days of interstates, when U.S. 27 was a major north/south thoroughfare from the midwest to Florida, it was one of several barns between LaFayette and Chattanooga that proudly carried the bold SEE ROCK CITY message.
Rock City Barn RCB-GA-26: U.S. 19, Taylor County, GA. 2.8 miles south of Butler.
Photography is about light. In fact, the word "photograph" comes from two Greek words: photos, which means "light," and grapho, which means "to write." So "to photograph" really means to write with light.
The best light for photography usually comes in early morning and late afternoon when the sun is low, casting long shadows which reveal texture and bathe the land in a rich, golden glow. In summer this often meant 18-hour days, as I tried to capture the good light at both ends of the day. I might drive several hundred miles checking out barn sites and then double back to photograph an especially good one in evening light; or put up at a nearby motel if I thought morning light would be better.
Of course, there wasn't always a motel nearby. I drove 40 miles through the pre-dawn darkness of central Georgia to catch a June sunrise at this little barn which had been lost from Rock City's records. I learned about it from the neighbor who worked on my car.
Both these photos were made with Canon EOS A2 film cameras and Fujichrome 100 film, and probably with the Canon EF 28-105mm lens
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