crooked

Post Date & Time: 2008-08-15 21:23:32

Category: [structures]  

Camera: NIKON D300
Focal Length: 200 mm
Exposure Time: 1/1600 sec
Aperture: f 5.6
ISO: 200
Flash: Not Fired
Cropped: No

When I see a crooked photo I want to straighten it, but this is not a crooked photo. It's a crooked structure.

I realize it's normal for all structures to settle, but there are many areas of Arkansas where the soil contains a lot of silt; it's sandy.

When a new structure settles and the foundation cracks during the first year or so that's bad and not uncommon, but that's not the case with this structure. Obviously it has settled, but it's not going to hurt anything.

This particular building is located in Batesville, Arkansas and as many times as I've been there I didn't know until tonight it's the oldest existing city in the State of Arkansas.

Compared to structures in Europe it's not very old, but for America and particularly as far west as Arkansas an approximate date of 1820; perhaps earlier is a very old structure. The people who settled this area were definitely in the wild, wild west.


I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
- Alfred Stieglitz, (Photographer)

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