6. Silhouette House

This week’s photo was one that I took back on 12/9/09 in Langhorne, PA.  As I was driving around aimlessly I came upon this old house that I had used in a photo shoot before.  It is abandoned, boarded up and just sitting off the road a little bit.  So I pulled over and walked around the perimeter hoping for a cool photo.  I like old run down places, buildings, people etc. so this naturally caught my attention.  I walked around the building until the sun was just sitting over the house in a very interesting manner.  Then I carefully adjusted the camera to make the house a silhouette against the sun.  This changed the entire picture into a dark twilight-ish type of image that I fell in love with.  In Photoshop I manually added a sepia tone and then added some selective blurring to give it a hazy, foggy sort of feel.  It just has such an eerie feeling to it.  I think this image has caused me to start staying up late and watching The X-Files again because it reminds me of the show.  It’s worth losing some sleep over; the picture and the show:)