{"id":32231,"date":"2026-02-04T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=32231"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:53:29","slug":"at-the-ready-abandoned-buildings-southern-illinois-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2026\/02\/at-the-ready-abandoned-buildings-southern-illinois-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAt the Ready\u201d \u2013 Abandoned Buildings, Southern Illinois (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I do like these photos, but … (see previous post)<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t click the shutter button nearly as often as I used to; it’s not that I don’t take my camera out as much, it’s that I take fewer photos overall but have a higher percentage of photos that I like. Most often, I know before I click if the photo will be worthwhile, and I’m much more willing to wait for the right shot, scene, or composition. In short, I’m much less “spray and pray” with the shutter button that I used to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

But barns? I found it very difficult to find inspiration and compositions with the barns and other abandoned structures on our trip. It’s not that the buildings weren’t interesting; it’s that I haven’t developed the mind’s eye for it. Once I brought the images into Lightroom, I couldn’t “see” why I took the photo to begin with – or worse – I could see and now I thought it was weak or absent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps I need more practice (I do), but as I mentioned before; there’s only so much time to take pictures, and maybe I’d rather spend it with the subjects and scenes that I already love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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barns are interesting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,29,8418],"tags":[8168,8523,8572,6565,6518,474,147,4867,1628,3389,8503,8669,815,6643,8671,8673,8498,280,832,4021,1964,323,8457,92,2753,3839,50,6517,8499,72,5416,126,5737,506,1542,151],"class_list":["post-32231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-unique","category-architecture-skylines","category-street","tag-8168","tag-25-10-25","tag-25-10-26","tag-28-200-f2-8-5-6","tag-a7r3","tag-abstract","tag-barn","tag-beam","tag-black-white","tag-building","tag-elizabethtown-il","tag-flaking-paint","tag-forest","tag-gate","tag-grist-mill","tag-herod-il","tag-keithfrenchphotographyworkshops","tag-leaf","tag-leaves","tag-lock","tag-metal","tag-monochrome","tag-oct25","tag-october","tag-roof","tag-ruins","tag-silhouette","tag-sony","tag-southern-illinois-2025","tag-sunlight","tag-support","tag-trees","tag-urban-ruins","tag-vines","tag-window","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32238,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32231\/revisions\/32238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}