November 3
Maybe you thought I’d given up taking pictures of abandoned buildings….
White River Lake, Texas
photographed 11.22.2009
Posted on November 3, 2012, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, haiku, laurie jameson, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas, white river lake, white river lake texas. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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I wasn’t too worried about you and abandoned buildings.
This is a nice one, so low and the gable almost flat. Not a roof that needs to shed large quantities of rain, or snow and thus not a profile we would see in the PNW very often. And it is all alone, with the power pole standing in for the obligatory lone tree.
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Some day, when I don’t have anything else to do, I will work on a graph of annual precipitation v. roof slope….
I never really thought about the pole standing in for the “obligatory lone tree” – good observation!
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It would be an interesting graph to see. Flat roofs are a bit confounding. I swore I would never buy a house with a flat roof in this temperate rain forest area, but my house has two flat roofs and a gabled older one. In this area many of the new houses have flat roofs because they are trying to maximise square footage within height limits for buildings. The steepest roofs are, I think, in areas of high snowfall.
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Well, then, my graph is going to just be ridiculous, because MY house has three very steep shed roofs and we get about 15″ of rain per year. Is it possible that I don’t know as much about roof slopes as I thought?!??
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After Tuesday we can probably find some U.S.-based pollsters and statisticians who need work. Think they’d be interested in our little project?
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I think they will want a rest, a nice long one.
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And some might only be interested in roofs as a place to fling themselves from.
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You make two valid points, my friend!
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Well, maybe that applies to both of us!
Averaging might be the answer, or perhaps not… I am sure some kind of statistical manipulation can bring out the predicted pattern, if one tried hard enough. Kind of like political polling and the algorithms they apply to the results, to make them ‘right’ (or ‘left’).
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The old two track road
is barely visible now
with time’s slow passage.
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