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About Julie
- Julie Basello-Holt
- Medford, NJ, United States
- Julie Basello-Holt, a city girl originally from New York City, is the owner of True Story Photography in Medford, NJ...she is currently surviving quite nicely in the suburbs (for now).
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Dinner at 6pm...
About the title of this photograph, which also happens to be the title of this blog entry:
I am in this absolute wreck of an abandoned house (probably illegally) with some photographers/friends and each of us wandered into our own area, examining the light, the potential for photo ops and the general scene before us. There, amidst the old sofa cushions, crushed beer cans and old kitchen utensils strewn about I spy a decent, albeit very DIRTY, wooden kitchen table. There is sits, in the middle of absolute chaos. Beside it is an old fireplace. It appeared that the fireplace was covered over with dry wall at some point and then re-opened by tearing off the drywall in a very haphazard way. Now I like to think I have a pretty good ability at envisioning the potential of something and not just taking things at face value. This is especially true when it comes to real estate and this room in this dirty, creepy house was a large space with loads of potential (if you had around $400,000 to play with on its repair).
I am in this absolute wreck of an abandoned house (probably illegally) with some photographers/friends and each of us wandered into our own area, examining the light, the potential for photo ops and the general scene before us. There, amidst the old sofa cushions, crushed beer cans and old kitchen utensils strewn about I spy a decent, albeit very DIRTY, wooden kitchen table. There is sits, in the middle of absolute chaos. Beside it is an old fireplace. It appeared that the fireplace was covered over with dry wall at some point and then re-opened by tearing off the drywall in a very haphazard way. Now I like to think I have a pretty good ability at envisioning the potential of something and not just taking things at face value. This is especially true when it comes to real estate and this room in this dirty, creepy house was a large space with loads of potential (if you had around $400,000 to play with on its repair).
After studying the scene for a few minutes (and actually looking at the light and how it was streaming in through the window), it got me thinking in a very sarcastic way, "What time's dinner?"...this of course, is what led to the title of this photograph. I am not a funny person but I sometimes THINK I am :)...oh, well, I tried...
I am not sure which version I prefer so I have included both...
Friday, January 9, 2009
More from Sunday...
More "abandoned" photos from last Sunday...still editing...one question I definitely have is why it seems like every abandoned house has an abandoned boat somewhere on the property? Very weird but something I have seen more than once...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Abandoned Houses
So sad looking and yet, great photo shoot locations. I guess something good will come out of these very forlorn locations with their houses that are falling apart and yet scattered throughout with remnants from someone else's life.
Been a while...
It's been a while since I have been able to get on here and actually post something. But the good news is that I actually have some new work to post. For this very brief post, I've included an image from a fountain light show that my husband and I watched in Atlantic City on New Year's Day.
Happy New Year and more to follow...from a shoot in an abandoned house this past weekend....
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