"1989"

Amazing work this is awesome

LOVE IT!

very interesting shot, nice one again to start the new year,well its about 3 am here,just 2008!

Great work well done

What a unique image!!! The ivy probably thinks it’s in a “greenhouse” so it continues to grow!!

Happy New Year!!

Beautiful, I would love to be there to feel it….

This is brilliant! The colour & light create such warmth and love the title, really takes you back.
Happy New & Inspirational Year Birgitta!

Wow this rocks!! Love the perspective and those tones are great…very cool…I have a fetish for doors as you might already know!

wonderful Brigitta!!!!!

Gorgeous work. I love it

This is incredible! I love it!!

Thanks you all!

swig !

Geat find Birgitta ~ it even has matching wallpaper!

Dang girl! YOU FRIGGIN ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I MEAN THAT TOO ! WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO Happy New Year and may you soar in 2008!!!!!!!!!! Im sure you will! THIS IS SUPERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like this. lovely shot – the yellow light is warm and welcoming.

awsome shot—wow,

Beautiful shot, I love the light and the vines.

I like it no wonder you asked me if i went into that old fallen down house. now i will try if i dont get caught as i said i was tresspassing. tom

It is 2008 here! so jump right in, the water’s fine…..
Happy new year and this image is amazing…so full of feeling and mystery and the haunting trace of old memories….

I feel like I’m in the twilight zone looking at this killer shot. (but then again it may just be the wine)
8:50 here and still…zzzzzzzz

extraordinary and beautiful, lovely work

Well be careful! I “trespass”, but am careful to leave everything untouched.
(I take nothing, and disturb nothing.) Thanks for coming by Tom!
And you too, FFStudio, Cheri, Anne, Lisa & Bonita. :)
Have a great New Year everyone!

hahaha Von!!
Yeah..I’m getting ready to start slamming it myself.
:-/
Happy 2008 to you too, Wendy! :)
And thank you, Silveraya. I appreciate that. :)

interesting place…

how sad this old house got abonded to this demise….

evil…

Another stunner from your series, fanfookintastic

wonderful composition

Great Work!! get blasted and post some crazy stuff…go-on ;)

hahaha Lostboy!!!

Alright.
Tell ya what.

I’ll post one juuuuuust for you!!

Great shot. It has personality, just like you. Happy New Year to you!!

very interesting. Nice lighting.. I am sober too.. I have two sick little ones….so…drink one for me!! Happy New Year

Awww Suni, I hope your little ones get to feeling better soon. :)
And I sure will. ;) Thanks Elisa!

Thats incredible, lovely colors Birgitta Happy new year :)

While you celebrate I am nursing a New Year Day hangover…Groan…and yet I’m still here! Lol
This image has such a great atmosphere, surreal and very, ‘another place and time’. Birg, you never fail to amaze me, you always seem to know exactly what treatment to apply to enhance your images perfectly.

Really lovely colous in this beautiful shot, I love this it has such warmth

Marion, the treatment I’m going to apply tonight is 4 aspirin, so I don’t
end up like you tomorrow.. ;) You’ve got a hangover & STILL you stop by?!
My goodness…thank you! I used CS3 & Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI and
about 13 layers to do this. (multiply/smart sharpening + luminosity/overlay//HDR..
a little bit of everything.) I don’t have a “set technique” so I never remember exactly
how I do it. Thanks again, and you too Rhys!!

Thank you Coffeebean. :)

fantastic shot, love the colours…. well done

Yeah well, I’m not big fan of TV and it’s 40 Degrees celcius outside. What else could I be doing! Really?
Only wish I had just half your creative vision! Lol

Wow… Fantatic shot Birgitta. Going in the favs.

wow, nice!

My god! This is brilliant! Anything old I just love it! This really hits that spot for me. Abandoned farmhouse series?! I just may have to add you to my watchlist! LOL You have very consistantly great work.. why the hell not?

Excellent image. Happy New Year!

Really incredible. I love this photo. It is so well done and so nice to see what it looks like on the inside of one of these abandoned homes.

Wow – I have a feeling I’m just going to love everything in this series! Wonderful sense of nostalgia, beautiful light and effects, fascinating place – awesome work, Birgitta, love it!!

outstanding work

extremely well done! great perspective and spectacular colors. a winner shot!

What a rich image, full of warmth and detail, and beautifully constructed. Congratulations!

Brilliant image Birgitta – just love it!

Wow !Very special,you are good,beautiful work.Congrats…and HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wonderful image.. Lucky you to find it..

This is a beautiful image – love the colours – well done

your work is great…......you have some really great images

There is so much to love about this Birgitta… This is simply sensational from corner to corner.

just amazing… love the ligh and color tones here.
Excellent photograph!

I gotta admit… Thats one great image, lighting (10), Composition (10), Colour … (9.89), Exposure (9.3) lol Have a wonderful new year Birgitta.

It really does look warm-love your whole series on this house and how you find beauty in the decay.

A great shot Birgitta.. love the angle on this and the lighting and colours are fantastic, adding great atmosphere to an already eerie shot!

That is great.. amazing

Beautiful shot, great angle and lighting, well done!

wow just lovely!!!

Excellent capture!

Been wondering why you dont post anything… d’er… thought you were on my watch list. Added you again to realize you werent on it, weird. Oh well, now I know why I never get to see your work which is utterly STUNNING!

Nice capture

this is stunning – i love the colours and as always your lighting is magnetic – beautiful work as always.

congrats on this featured work. this is no surprise!

wow this is incredible!

Very very well done. Love the light and the comp… it does have a surreal look to it. Beautiful too..

Really stunning work Birgitta!

love this

Super shot. So very atmospheric.

Wicked shot!!

Another well done piece!!!!!

Excellent image in every ways, Birgitta!

Outstanding HDR work

Outstanding work!

Wonderful shot, Birgitta.

this picture is so dramatic and intense, you have a wonderful eye to see such a masterpiece. <3>

In-freakin-credible!!!

Incredibly awesome work!

Absolutely Stunning, Birgitta !!!! Everything about it is WOW !!!!!!!

Great capture.

This is a real work of art.. I’ve come back to this many times over the last few days not sure on what to say that has not already been said.. Lets just leave it as ‘Work of Art’ and my god you have some talent..

wonderful pic…excellent place to get some more pics

Wow – amazing, breathtaking image

great treatment

Thank you everyone!!

i LOVE this.. great detail and lighting!

Beeeeautiful!

fantastic,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,look great in b/w

You have a very good eye, beautiful composition and colours…

The colouring really suits this image. Great setup and execution!

Fantastic composition and love the tones. Captured so very well.

Wow, what a great place to take photo’s! I love the warmth of tone you’ve achieved here. Excellent framing also. Brilliant!

great lighting, composition, perspective and detail – all round perfect pic!

What can i say that they didn’t lol. Great shot.

Beautiful shot. Love the amber tones. Very painterly.

Your right this is very surreal, you have an eye for beauty.

This is a superb photograph.
I love old houses, you may never know what you will find.

Love the lighting!! Wonderful image.

Thanks so much y’all!!

colours are brilliant…ace pic

What a wonderful image this is, really like the way the light is peering thru the entryway, and the weathered and worn look it holds also!!

I hesitated to comment on this because it may make your image more popular than mine in the last 30 days but this is so good and has bags of atmosphere, I just had to. Great photo.

Thanks Lula & WD. :)
And Paul….you crack me up!!!! heee…......
thank you. :)

love it! the colour and tone, depth, composition – everything! going straight to my favourites!

what an image! fantastic!

This is just fantastic in every way. You have quite the talent. :)

outstanding colours, mood,...eh…everything
a fave

A classic shot…I can almost smell the decay.

so atmospheric

I love this photograph. It is superb.

Wow its so beautiful. The lighting, the shadows; I just feel so peaceful looking at it.
And I’m quite partial to the name seeing as I was born in 1989 :)

I really love your style… this is so wonderful.

This is an absolutely beautiful image, everything about it, is so well done. Can’t wait to see more of this same place!

different and I like it.

Excellent shot, abandoned buildings shoot so well i find, congrats on a great image!

~Shepy

wow wow wow so very beautiful. takes you to another place

Thats fine work.

This is fabulous dear.

Fantastic shot – everything about it works. Im adding this to my fave’s.

Thank you everyone!

This light you’ve captured well, just awesome. You rock!

Very talented girl…...... with a great eye!

This has to be possibly the most coolest picture I have ever seen.It opens my mind to so many unspoken related images. Thank you for sharing.

so beautiful….!!!!!!

WOW!!! I love the light and color of this shot! Awesome work!

spectacular nice shot

WOW! I love this shot. Its got its own feel to it. Very good find.

Wow!

I love all of your work, but this one is really my favorite! everything is perfect in this composition, and i like the feeling of the photo, difficult to explain but it’s really something different.

awesome work ! well done…

nice shot

This is just goreous!! Beautiful and mysterious. I have a facination with doors and windows in photography. They are the portals of life. This, I feel a sense of reaching a destination finally, at the end of a cold and brutal season-perhaps at the end of the fall?-to finally reach an enlightened state after a long-faught struggle. The “woodiness” is lovely because it is both alive and old and even dead…and yet the door symbolizes a newness, fresh, crisp, clean and alive. I like that the door is actually open, showing that it is inviting the audience in and up to something newer and better than the old leaves that you will leave behind once you pass through the doorway.

Thank you for this beautiful image. Please look at my art and writing when you have time and give me a comment. Thanks!!

Absolutely love it!!! The colour and the light are magnificent! The composition is just perfect!

Nice pic….well done you…

Just found this … looks like a Jumanji scene … super!

I love the warmth of the photo, it’s really beautiful.

Iman

Incredible picture, I love it.

Wow, this is fantastic. love it.

I love it. Great shot.

Taylor

as always, great work, love the POV and great subject

Wonderful find! It’s such mystery walking into the “abandoned”... There’s always something down the road or maybe just next door that beckons one to enter. Great shot!

brilliant you are with your awesome lighting!!!!!!!!!!!!

The elegance would always be,
For anyone who wanted to see,
Who could hear its silent plea.

The better days are now gone,
Neglected for far too long,
Nature creeping back where it once belonged,
Somehow beautiful and wrong.

I love this picture, the way the tones show both the majesty that was once there and the reclaiming of what once was. The tones are warm and earthy which gives it a sad feeling of better times. Great work

This is very intriguing.

Intriquing indeed! Fairytale-like.

Just beautiful… the colour is so warm. These type of images really move me.

I am so good with words, but this is a really great image…........................

Love it!

Really awesome work!!

Oh My God. I think my heart just stopped. Seriously- the beauty of this is actually making my heart flutter!!

Inspirational photo. Great Colours.

nice clours and the way that the vines are creeping around

Beautiful. love it!

What a spectacular find!

Absolutely stunning!

beautiful capture Birgitta…..

great light and composition, very atmospheric image…

Thanks you all for commenting! It means a lot to me and inspires me
greatly. Thanks again. :)

very nice visual aspect of this compo….....well done Birgitta

you are such an excellent artist !!

Birgitta ,

The building has an othererworldly beauty ? i imagine there must be amazing cellar like aromas there smells of old plants …

It is hard to imagine that 1989 has become 19 years ago .

The appearance of the ? mark after the phrase ‘otherworldly beauty’ was accidental : a typo .

This is truly awesome! Great find and capture…what a magical place!

Brigitta this is awesome..It would look geat in the Light and Reflection group…..(hint, hint)...

THIS IS AWESOME!!! What a find.. talk about Mother Nature taking over…..great shot! Mekea :)

Wow this is really a great shot! Will favorite it immediately!

I wa born in 1989 weird lol but this an amazing capture
excellant

Just amazing lovely work !

love it Birgitta
more beautiful work from a beautiful lady
xXx
am

Wow you are seriously talented :)

Lovely work…:)

What a fascinating and completely intriguing capture. So mysterious. Beautiful image :-)

An awesome picture and mood!

Great lighting, amazing work!

Wonderful! Congrats on the Feature! Excellent new year’s image

Great work ! on a envie de savoir ce qu’il y a derrière la porte. Love it.

Excellent shot!!! Wonderful description as well!!! When I look at this picture I can almost feel that feeling!!! Amazing photograph!!! Very well done. Brendan

Superb – Colin

Beautiful!

Birgitta … I was scrolling thu all time favorite pieces and this baby stopped me in my tracks … can’t tell you how amazing this shot is … but I’m sure you already know!!! Will be back to visit you and your creations soon!!! Wowzer … what an eye and what a talent you have!!!! Soooo evocative of so many emotions!!!!!!!!!

this is one awesome image! one of the best i have seen here so far!

Thank you all so very much. :) I’ll be going back to this abandoned house
soon for some more shots, and I’m putting together an “abandoned Calendar”
so be sure to check back! ;) Thanks again..

Excellent composition!

I love your style…...... (have I already said that??, sorry if I am repeating myself!!..........lololo).............. Love the story that goes with the superb image…......I want to step through that door/wall too!!!!!!!!

Wow – this is nice – the textures, the lighting, great!

Just amazing. The colors are perfect and the subject is awesome.

MAGICAL IMAGE, GREAT CAPTURE !

Amazing image!

Gorgeous, very dramatic!

Beautiful image…instantly creates a feeling…love it!

i have wandered back to this photo at least five times in the last week -its soooo mesmerizing. so dreamy. makes me feel… safe? i dont know why, but it does. thank u for capturing it.
sofia

it’s as if time stops when i look at this shot! well done , great work!

Congratulations on your feature Birgitta, this is awesome!!

gorgeousness

Brilliant!

Aloha dearest Birgitta, this is a wonderfully creative perspective, it is truly extraordinary! Thank you so much for the fascinating commentary, it breathes life into this beautiful image! Congratulations on your feature!! Aloha, Sharon

Love it :)

My brother and I saw this the other day, we both said how beautiful it was.

OMG Birgitta, this is awsome. All your work tells a story so deep and intricate, wonderful work my friend!!!!!!!!

Enter the Brothers grimm!!!......

love the bright sepia and use of contrast!

Seriously one of my favorite faves! Love the lighting effects!

Wow this is pretty

I love everything about this picture. The lighting and the colors and the door, my 3 faves in one!

love this! Perfect in its ramshackled state and love your processing – adds sooo much to the atmosphere :)

Your amazing!!

Great location and subject matter. The coloring you have created really makes the mood.

Absolutely LOVE this! Wonderful detail.

Great image,lovely golden tones.

oh i absolutely without a doubt love this one.
it looks so old and warn yet cheerful because of the light coming in.
i really like it! nice job!

This is fantastic and very inviting with the open door!

Very Cool! Please consider submitting this to Urban Explorers

Absolutely excellent !!!!!!

Fantastically gorgeous! I love everything about it. What fun to be able to go back to this place!

the year i was born :) great work!!

Spectacular!! – I thought I might find you here – your talent is such a gift!! can’t wait to see more…

great material for HDR .. like how you framed and processed it ..

Stunning piece of art. Congratulations

warm and inviting like granny’s baked apple pie!
like the composition.

Wonderful and inviting photo!

What a great portfolio….so much I could fave…truly a great artist!

This is so Beautiful, with the lighting, and the contrasting…!

Oh I absolutely love this, the composition, light, texture – everything about it really. Great work :)

how magical can leaves be…? gorgeous image.

Unique and very creative.

This is such a beautiful capture and it would really be perfect for this challenge