The “Weathered Watcher Collection” is now up on my website, joycewasserphotography.com This collection features a century old barn that was on the property of an Arbnb I stayed at in November while attending a shower for my nephew’s bride to be. It reminded me of the old barn that was on my family farm growing up. That barn unfortunately burnt to the ground. I hope this one stands for many more years.
In the title piece the “Weathered Watcher” stands in silent watch at the edge of a fallow field, its wooden structure faded by rain and wind. Bare branches on barren trees reach for the sky. The grass, wild and unkempt, creeps up to the threshold as nature reclaims what was built by human hands. In the hush of dawn, the structure feels both abandoned and watchful. It holds secrets in its darkened interior, whispered stories of vanished harvests and livestock. The air is thick with the sense of things left unsaid, and the barn, half-shrouded in shadow, becomes a threshold between the known and the unknown. Link to purchase prints below.
Also available in this collection: "Weathered Sanctuary" a barn wall, its grain etched by years of sun and storm, stands as a quiet witness to the passage of many harvest seasons. It invites the you to pause, reflect, and find beauty in the meeting of memory and renewal. Link to view and purchase prints below.
“Weathered Inheritance” features weathered barn faded to silvery gray and streaked with mossy green. It stands as a testament to time’s quiet persistence. The open window, its closure askew, invites a gaze into a shadowy interior where slivers of daylight pierce the dark. It is an invitation to pause and reflect on the stories held within forgotten places. It offers a window into the agricultural past. Link to view and purchase below.
“Weathered Resolve” captures the steadfast heart of the old barn, its beams and boards bearing the marks of countless haying seasons. It invites reflection on the beauty found in endurance, and the stories etched into the very bones of a place that refuses to yield. Link to view and purchase below.
Photography History-Part 1
Pictured Above -The Kodak Tourist II is a folding medium-format camera produced by Eastman Kodak from 1951 to 1958.
Concepts of the camera obscura were recorded by the Chinese in antiquity as early as 500 B.C. A camera obscura is a natural optical phenomenon where light traveling through a small hole in a darkened box projects an inverted image of the outside world onto an opposite surface. Artists have used it as a tracing aid for centuries. In 1727 Johann Heinrich Schulze demonstrated that silver salts darken due to light, not heat. He created temporary images. Nicéphore Niépce produced the first permanent photograph in the early 1800's, "View from the Window at Le Gras". It required eight hours of exposure. Louis Daguerre introduced the daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process using silver-plated copper plates in 1839. He is considered the inventor of modern photography.
Part 2 in May. I hope you are enjoying reading this as much as I enjoy writing it.
Joyce