Forgotten Homestead

by Marty Saccone

Title

Forgotten Homestead

Artist

Marty Saccone

Medium

Photograph - Fine Photography

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Winter sunset at a forgotten homestead with relic harvesting reaper in a snow covered landscape located in Little Machias, Maine.

I partially silhouetted the reaper while including the adjacent abandoned farmhouse,...associating the two gives a nostalgic feel I thought ,..a telling past from a bygone era that remains a mystery to the viewer.


I love subjects that are rustic, abandoned, neglected or just plain dilapidated,..those subjects convey emotions nostalgically from a past time and place,....Thru readily apparent ramshackle decay such subjects often exhibit strong textures of weathered wood, peeling paint or crumbling rust that the eye of the viewer can visually feel as if touching it.

One of the things you might see throughout rural Maine back roads and byways are the long forgotten relics and rusted hulks of a previous generations prosperous times,...now forgotten to time or obsoleted by technical mechanized innovations.,...antique tractors, farm equipment once pulled by horses, wooden wagons, early model cars and more,...left abandoned maybe in an overgrown pasture over run with high grass or concealed by emerging saplings, cast aside in a crumpling barn,...collapsed shed or maybe just left abandoned where it now lies.

As photographers we are sometimes unknowingly historians capturing the last fleeting images of subjects now lost to obscurity.

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March 17th, 2019

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