"Sobo no Kura"

 

"Grandmother's Warehouse" is the translation of the title.  It is fairly common for older homes in Japan to have a warehouse nearby where valuables are kept because homes are not very safe from weather, fire, or floods.  I got to explore such a warehouse and found a wealth of rustic imagery such as this.  I spent quite some time looking for either tungsten-balanced film or a daylight lightbulb because there were no windows and a single incandescent bulb was the only source of illumination.  Since I could find neither, the only option was to shoot with the digital camera.  The exposures were on the order of 1/2 second and this produced quite noisy images.  I spent hours cleaning this one up in Photoshop.

Olympus C-3000.


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