Pirate
Guitar playing Fotografer
These fotos are for a Foto Essay I felt like doing. A conversation on another forum was talking about fotographing a brick wall, so I got it into my head to have some fun and do a little Foto Essay on Brick Walls in Pictures. Out here in Germany there are a lot more Stone Block Walls, but I wanted to do this one sticking to the old standard of Red Bricks, so it took me a couple days to find these Walls. Every Wall is in a different town, one from where I live and the others in the surrounding towns. It was a fun experience and I may do it again soon, but on a different subject, of course.
The history of the Brick itself goes back 10,000 years. This is one fact that prompted me to do this little essay. Also, for those who have seen pictures of the Coliseum in Rome and noticed, it's made mostly of Red Bricks. Everything was covered over with marble at one time, but what we see now is the bare structure. That's well over 2000 years right there.
I limited myself for this essay and grabbed shots of Brick Walls that said something to me, not just the first wall I found while driving around. My equipment consisted of my Hasselblad 500C/M medium format camera body, 60mm Zeiss Distagon lens, 120 format 12-Back, and Kodak Ektar 100 film. That means the film contained 12 available shots on it. A Gossen, Lunasix light meter kept me in check. No flash, all available light only, and no editing of EV or Colour was done from the initial scan. I did remove some little bits of lint in Photoshop, but that was all. Pictures were scanned with a CanoScan 8800F.
Fotos number 3 and 6 are lost. Due to operator error, I was unable to save them and the frames were blank when I developed the film.
1. The side of a home. I really could not tell if they were building this or tearing it down.
2. Another side of a home, this one was lived in.
4. This was just a small part of an older structure. No idea what it used to be and there were little clues to help figure it out.
5. This is on the backside of a warehouse type building that has been abandoned. Many things can be seen on this wall, one just has to look. This is one of my favorites.
7. An old home being exposed by the elements, a little more each year. There were spider webs with big spiders in them across the front area of this house. I almost walked into one of them, so I decided to take the picture from a little farther back and get a full side shot.
8. This is along a small road behind a Church Graveyard. There were a few of these spaced about 20 feet apart. Some you could see into. It's just a carved out hole in the side of a hill. This one was buried more than the others but it had a good look to it. These may have been air raid bunkers during the war, that's a good guess.
9. Driving past a barn of sorts, I saw this inside wall and knew it was my picture I was searching for. I asked a local couple outside and they didn't mind me taking the photo at all. An old wall with many changes.
10. This little town did not have many brick walls - exposed, that is. Many of the homes are built with Red Brick Walls, but they are all covered up with plaster and paint so you can't tell there are bricks under there. This old thing was not being lived in and was very exposed, so it was perfect.
11. Doing some remodeling on his home, I asked the owner if I could grab this shot, and, while he looked at me a little funny, he didn't mind at all.
12. I've been finding these all over since doing this little project. Many of them were used as outdoor cellars. This one was near a some farming fields and a couple warehouses. No homes in the area.
The history of the Brick itself goes back 10,000 years. This is one fact that prompted me to do this little essay. Also, for those who have seen pictures of the Coliseum in Rome and noticed, it's made mostly of Red Bricks. Everything was covered over with marble at one time, but what we see now is the bare structure. That's well over 2000 years right there.
I limited myself for this essay and grabbed shots of Brick Walls that said something to me, not just the first wall I found while driving around. My equipment consisted of my Hasselblad 500C/M medium format camera body, 60mm Zeiss Distagon lens, 120 format 12-Back, and Kodak Ektar 100 film. That means the film contained 12 available shots on it. A Gossen, Lunasix light meter kept me in check. No flash, all available light only, and no editing of EV or Colour was done from the initial scan. I did remove some little bits of lint in Photoshop, but that was all. Pictures were scanned with a CanoScan 8800F.
Fotos number 3 and 6 are lost. Due to operator error, I was unable to save them and the frames were blank when I developed the film.
1. The side of a home. I really could not tell if they were building this or tearing it down.
2. Another side of a home, this one was lived in.
4. This was just a small part of an older structure. No idea what it used to be and there were little clues to help figure it out.
5. This is on the backside of a warehouse type building that has been abandoned. Many things can be seen on this wall, one just has to look. This is one of my favorites.
7. An old home being exposed by the elements, a little more each year. There were spider webs with big spiders in them across the front area of this house. I almost walked into one of them, so I decided to take the picture from a little farther back and get a full side shot.
8. This is along a small road behind a Church Graveyard. There were a few of these spaced about 20 feet apart. Some you could see into. It's just a carved out hole in the side of a hill. This one was buried more than the others but it had a good look to it. These may have been air raid bunkers during the war, that's a good guess.
9. Driving past a barn of sorts, I saw this inside wall and knew it was my picture I was searching for. I asked a local couple outside and they didn't mind me taking the photo at all. An old wall with many changes.
10. This little town did not have many brick walls - exposed, that is. Many of the homes are built with Red Brick Walls, but they are all covered up with plaster and paint so you can't tell there are bricks under there. This old thing was not being lived in and was very exposed, so it was perfect.
11. Doing some remodeling on his home, I asked the owner if I could grab this shot, and, while he looked at me a little funny, he didn't mind at all.
12. I've been finding these all over since doing this little project. Many of them were used as outdoor cellars. This one was near a some farming fields and a couple warehouses. No homes in the area.
