Image for Critique Brittany Shaw 1/29/2013

For my assignment this week I chose an abandoned house behind my house on the outskirts of Powhatan, Chesterfield, and Amelia. I think this house is over a hundred years old, every floor had a fireplace and no electrical sockets whatsoever I've gone past this house a thousand times while I was mudding but never took the time to go in and adventure around. The house's roof is partially caved in and a whole half of the house is completely gone and seems to have been burned down, but I don't know for sure. After looking around in the skeleton of this house I learned to appreciate it for its musty beauty. The walls are crumbling, paint faded and peeled back from years of over-exposure (pardon my photo pun) to the elements and no TLC.. but I think it could really be the most intriguing and complicated (not to mention dangerous) photo shoot I've ever done. There were definitely kids that had been there before me, the names of the siblings that lived in my house before me were etched into the yellowed walls of the house and the earliest vandalism date I could find was 1982. So, well before my time kids hung out here too, it's a place of wonderment and I'm really glad I finally grew the balls to walk in there. It's going to be a wonderful place for other photos in my near future. The subject, well stranger in my picture is my boyfriend's old friend Corey, whom I had just met earlier that day when I picked my boyfriend up, he tagged along and it all worked out for the best. That boy is TALK-A-TIVE. Homie seriously didn't stop moving and if he did his mouth was still going at a hundred miles a minute. He was really creeped out about the house at first.. he didn't wanna go in and stayed on the  gator, for all of five minutes until he realized that in the movies the one that stays behind always gets eaten first. Once he ventured into the house he proceeded to try and help knock it down, he was only still enough for about four pictures and HE'S STILL BLURRY. Worst subject choice ever. But I got him, besides the constant bumming my cigarettes and talking a lot, he was a really nice guy, and we're all hanging out again this weekend.
SIDENOTE: The picture in the woods is just outside of the house and I couldn't decide which picture focused more on lighting so... I put both...