Today we have a bonus image to share with everyone! Let’s go back to a time where things were a lot simpler, there were no cell phones, VCR’s or even computers… the 1950′s!
Army Building - Victoria BC Canada
This photograph was captured after my very best friend informed me it was sitting in the middle of a very nice community right in town. The day I took this photo it was absolutely pouring with rain. A few minutes after setting up and grabbing a few brackets to process in HDR, I was accosted by my very first “rent-a-cop” who was non too pleased that I was taking photos in this area of town. She informed me I wasn’t allowed to take any photos of the buildings behind her (I had moved down the street a bit from this building by this time)…. I think I hurt her feelings when I turned around and looked at her, um, fiefdom and promptly stated “I have no interest in your boring buildings”.
At any rate, both my friend and I believe this building was originally constructed in the 1940′s-1950′s during wartime. It’s a very odd entity to encounter in this part of town which is filled with old Victorian style homes. Smack dab in the middle of a residential street, you are confronted with this site. There are a few elements to this image that I just love, the green door being the predominant feature here for sure. A little closer scrutiny reveals rust trailing down the bashed and weathered external aluminum siding. I do believe the building is still in active use. We have been able to find no useful information at this time on it, however.
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Toad,
The building pictured is a Quonset Hut. A very nice description of the history of these buildings can be found on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut
Nice Capture!
Oh wow, I had no idea about that John, that’s very interesting!! I was wondering how it came to be, and this makes perfect sense. We’ve got a pretty good (Canadian standards) navy base and shipyard here. To American standards, our navy is a bunch of inflatable dingys. LOL
Congratulations on being the featured hdr wordpress blog today! http://en.wordpress.com/tag/hdr/ Just happened to see this tonight. Very cool, Scott.
Holy! Toledo! I had no idea, THANK you so much Barbara! Pretty darned exciting to be honest, I really do appreciate the heads-up on that!
Nice shot,something tells me that will not be your last conversation with “rent a cops”,keep up the great work Toad!!!
Thanks for the words of encouragement and taking the time to comment today! Keep the motor runnin’ there Saul, I agree this probably ain’t my last run in with the authorities!!