The Van Wagenen House 298 Academy St., Jersey City, N.J. known as the "The Apple Tree House" built in the mid 1700's by one of the original Dutch families who settled the area in the 1660s.
According to tradition, the Marquis de Lafayette met with General George Washington in August 1780 to plan military strategy and they dined beneath the tree next to the house.
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Well seen.
Shame about the power lines, but such is real life. Slant on the fence line is a bit odd to the eye though. A slightly different perspective would help this in my opinion.
Aren't the power lines annoying? Of course, without them I couldn't be sitting here using my electriclly powered computer.
And in this case they seem to add to the feeling of this beauty being passed by. If you could have backed off just enough to get more of the front grounds without loosing the chimney might havel helped but I like it a lot just like it is.
I'm not fond of the angle of this shot. I find it makes the photo look lop sided or unbalanced. The wires in the shot also are also very distracting and the photo generally looks more like a snap shot the a planned shot. Perhaps a more thought out subject would have scored better in this challenge. good luck in this challenge.
Aargh! Power lines! The bane of every architectural photographer! I think you have a great subject here. What I really like about this picture is the blue shutters. Would love to see this with the saturation kicked up a bit, no power lines, and perhaps somehow avoid the fence, if possible?
Thi is a really excellent subject for this challenge. When you have to shoot through this many power lines, you might be better of to just focus on a smaller section of the house and shoot only that smaller part from closer up. Still, you did a great job finding a nice abandoned house to shoot.
Odd there is a new looking fence. I think because of the power lines/fence you'd of done better to just shoot the shuttered windows and not tried to include the whole house..? Just a thought.
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