During my early morning travel through the backroads of the Berkshires, I passed this old semi-abandonded farm equipment repair station. The sun was just peaking thru some trees behind me and I set up the Pce-24. I was soon visited by a young man who told me that his great great grandfather and family had a garage here since the early 1920′s. They had closed the shop up in the early ’90′s, so about 75 years of outdoor rural Americana had passed thru here. It must have been a busy place, with three large bay doors….
From the start I wanted to get the’New Idea’ sign in the Image, and it took a bit of fussing to do. I also had to think about how I could use the digital Image darkroom to adjust the perspective using content aware scaling and PT lens Plugin from ePaperPress
I still wonder what ‘New Idea’ farm equipment was like, and did it go the way of our other American production and manufacturing. That sign was the draw for me, still perched out there, a type of symbolism for the 21st Century, new ideas don’t really last, continuous change does…..
