Archive for January, 2010

I was in Columbus, Ohio this past week on a 2-day photo shoot with my boss. We were shooting his father’s collection of antique pharmacy products (gallery coming soon). Since we were going to be there for 2 days I of course looked into any Mail Pouch barns in the area. There are quite a few barns around the Columbus area but since I wasn’t driving and had to talk him into a diversion from our original mission, I had to find the closest barn to his parents house in Galena on the Hoover Reservoir. I located a barn a mere 16 miles away! Which to me, who will drive 150 miles to shoot a new barn, seemed reasonable.

After a peaceful night stay in the beautiful farmhouse he grew up in, and his father keeping us up late with “old timer” stories (meant to be respectfull not sarcastic) we were headed to breakfast then off to shooting more. I think Pete’s dad was rather confused as to why he had to wait for his breakfast so I could take a picture of some old barn, but he was a good sport about it. The drive from the farmhouse to the barn reminded me of my days in Minot, North Dakota. Cold, windy, flat lands with snow blowing across the roads. It was actually a beautiful drive and if I was alone I would have stopped quite a few times to shoot some barns and a couple of little churches spotted along the way. But we were on a mission, find one particular barn, then get Mr. White to breakfast! Thanks to Google maps and our iPhones with GPS we found the barn with no problems and they dropped me off to get some shots while they turned around. Wow, it was cold! But I was very thankful we made the trip because it turned out this barn was very nice, and I always love to shoot the red Mail Pouch barns.

On our return trip Pete and his dad messed with me being so into taking pictures of barns. I know in reality Pete understood, but I’m not sure his dad really did. As a matter of fact the rest of the day while we were at his pharmacy shooting he would mention to people, “You wouldn’t believe it, this morning we drove way out in the country, just so this guy could take a picture of a barn”. I enjoyed knowing that maybe from now on I will be part of one of Mr. White’s “old timer” stories!

I know this is a rather long story just to end up with more pictures of a Mail Pouch barn, but I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed sharing it. I will be posting some of our photo shoot at White’s Pharmacy soon, of course with more “Mr. White” stories!

Here’s the rest of the barn shots. Enjoy!

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Annie Junior, presented by the junior high at Saint Catherine of Siena in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Typically I only show my own photography here but I offered to post photos shot by Doug Lonneman so the parents and students could see the shots he took during a dress rehearsal on January 19th. I have also included two additional galleries I shot for them.

If you would like to download the original files for these photos, click on a thumbnail and when the large version  of the photo opens, roll your mouse over the upper left-hand corner of the photo and select “Download Original”.

Doug’s January 19th gallery.
My January 15th gallery.
My January 22nd gallery. Enjoy!

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This place was awesome! I ran across this little motel on Route 23 in Ulysses, Kentucky. I pulled up the hill to shoot and noticed some people unloading a house next door. Usually if I see someone close by I’ll ask if I can shoot so I walked over to introduce myself and ask permission to take some photos. As it turns out this man’s family owns the property and his parents ran the place until the mid 70s. As much as I enjoy the mystery of shooting old abandoned places I do often think I would like to know their history. Which is what made this such a great find. I chatted with this man for quite a while. As a matter of fact I think he enjoyed telling me his stories as much as I enjoyed hearing them. He actually had the original signs in his barn, which he gladly shared and posed for photos (look for him and his dog in the gallery). I think it’s great that this man is so proud of his family being a part of so many families vacations thoughout the years. Tuns out the reason they are moving stuff out of the house is that his mother is very sick in the hospital. He said she has forever refused to leave the house, but unfortunately it seems she’ll be moving into a home, never to return to the Elmwood.

Here’s the rest of gallery. Enjoy!

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