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Having fun with the digital camera – I want to thank almost everyone who shares their knowledge on this forum – you all are gracious and inspiring – and thanks also to Taunton for sponsoring ‘breaktime’ and also for FHB, issue #1 which I serendipitously ran across so many years ago – -anyway, DW and I moved to this non-descript, run down farmstead 25 years ago this May – and embarked on the never-ending project – what ever could be said, everyone agrees it’s been interesting – DOUD
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This is the latest phase in the never-ending project - the east wall of the 'Minnesota Room' - all the wood was cut from the property and 'woodmizered'; the paneling hs been air dried for some years, the sycamore is fresh - this wall replaces the gray, weathered plywood that has graced our lives for the last 15 years - it was a nasty wall, out of plumb with a break in it at 8' - took a lot longer to prepare the wall than to make the paneling and trim -
*another view - I'm ready to turn the corner either direction - nothing like starting in the middle - things are busy outside now, and this will have to wait on bad weather -
*here's kitchen cupboard, cherry off the farm, doors are salvage -
*door into cabin - moved the cabin in 1987 to serve as an addition - 18'X20', story and half, with 'lean to' off the south 12' deep - this was/is the west wall, the most weathered of the walls - dates to app 1850 -
*Glenwood, the Cadillac of ranges - door is butternut and poplar - table sycamore -
*walnut, ash, and poplar table I built 18 years ago - got a couple of picts of the cabinet in the background that I'll post when I figure out how to rotate the images - this camera needs a flash I guess - picts just aren't as good as I'd like -
*thanks to Luka, here's a pict that is not on its side - I have a weakness for 70's stereo that doesn't fit well with our rural poverty (honest) look - here's a project from 3 years ago -
*one more, again thanks Luka for the rotation - the back opens also, for access to the nest of snakes that inhabit the rear of such set-ups - built a pair of imitation Klisph corner horns that this equipment drives - don't know if it's vintage or kitsch or both, lots of stuff has been in and out of our lives over the last 25 years - stereo's always been in -
*let's see if this makes it visible
*and the cherry cabs touched up
*thanks, Piffin, I think - - It was just too dark without flash - I've got a different camera I can borrow in the future that does flash - need practice - of course if it shows up too crisply, the workmanship would show - maybe better if it is a little fuzzy - DOUD
*David, When you increase the brightness, you should also increase the contrast. I don't tie the two together, because sometimes it takes more contrast, sometimes less.If you would like, you can send the originals to me and I will give them a try.
*On these, I decreased the contrast while increasing the brightness. The countertop in the foreground became blindingly bright with the increased brightness. Fuzziness crept in somehow too.