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There is this house behind one of the 3 churches that exist in the city of Heredia which is falling apart and has been abandoned for quite a while now. Finally got a shot of the corner of the house that shows the decay that this house has had over the years.
We can see that the house was built using the old style in which the walls were made of a mix that includes dirt and has also cement, if I’m not mistaken.
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This is a city that's located on the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. With an altitude of aproximately 4Km above sea level this is place that has a very warm weather and isn't as developed as San Jose and Heredia are.
From San Jose, Costa Rica's capital, is a 7 hour bus ride or 45 minutes on a small plane but the bus ride is the cheapest method since it charges around US$20 for a round trip. I took the chance to take some photos since it would be great as a change from the city photos that I usually take.
My laptop decided that it wouldn't want to copy the photos onto my USB thumb drive so only a few got copied over and since I currently don't have internet access at home I'm unable to upload them from there. So these are some of my most favorite photos from the set.
This was taken on the backyard of my girlfriend's mother's house. There are chickens, ducks and pigs in the backyard and those are the same chickens that they eat when making anything with chicken and also the eggs they lay. I know that some people will be grossed out by that…but that's life around here and it's nothing new to me since my grandma, from my mother's side, also did the same and also my dad's aunt has chickens in her backyard. This was processed with Boutwell's Totally Rad Actions and I used the f/zero action for the blur effect and also Boutwell's Magic Glasses.
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While I was taking the photos of the lens in my living room I decided to play a bit with long exposure so I turned off the light in the living room and took a shot of 1 minute in Bulb mode of the rooms. I then simply did a bit of work in Photoshop to eliminate those elements that you could still see on the computer room so that the room looked completely white and used some of Boutwell's Totally Rad Actions to give the effects and I really love how the final image turned out.
-LM
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Hallos,
Lovely picture ^_^ I really like the edge darkening, gives it a bit of a nostalgic feeling.
A bit on architectural history. Old houses were made of bricks of mud, clay, cow manure and some kind of grass or straw, between the cracks they would add more clay or mud and bits and pieces of pottery or tile, they didn't use cement back then. The columns, as can be seen from the picture, were of brick and mortar. It was all then covered in plaster and paint and details done in wood and/or plaster.
It is truly sad to see how people have let culture decay and once beautiful houses crumble to pieces.
Cheers, NM
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