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And this, sir, is a classy thread. No place is all beauty or blight. Being able to show the good and the bad of any place, whether you love it or hate it, is a sign of maturity, depth, and -- yes -- class. Thank you.
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Good job man!
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Great shots. Shreveport actually looks cool in that photo.
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What beautiful photography! I really like the look of Van Buren and Eureka Springs. I love this.
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Nice pictures. Arkansas doesn't seem too bad, although much of it clearly isn't thriving and prospering. Some of the country grit pictures are pretty cool.
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You did the joint justice!
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awesome set. Lots of gems in here!
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Nice photos!
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great collection. like i said before, you need to do a book. i have a Shreveport thread coming up, great shot of it. i think i'll also do my Van Buren mini-thread.
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Im driving up to Eureka Springs today so Ill be adding a whole bunch of new photos to this thread, please check back soon.
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fantastic collection of photos.....
what an amazing place...... I really want to go there.......(reminds me of my home state, Georgia.....lots of towns on one side of the railroad....) thanks for sharing.... |
Awesome thread man. I really like your style of photography. Every photo is beautiful in it's own way. Great stuff.
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wow, these are absolutley fantastic.
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Definitely an interesting array of shots, many of which are quite compelling. I particularly like the shot of the cooling tower. Great work.
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http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...51bf194e_o.jpg
Taken somewhere up in the Boston Mountains http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...2b1ac26a_o.jpg These are the Ouachita Mountains in central Arkansas. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...tsmithhist.jpg Fort Smith National Historic Site, this was the western frontier back in the 1800s. Right across from this fort was the Oklahoma Territory. The fort was also a major staging area for the Trail of Tears. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c.../Vaanburen.jpg Van Buren is one of Arkansas oldest towns and is located across the Arkansas River from Ft. Smith. It has been around since the late 1820s and is in my opinion one of the most charming small towns in the state. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...nburennark.jpg |
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I like these small towns. Great photo thread also!
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I can't see them :(
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Hey!! where did the pictures go??:shrug:
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photobucket bandwidth exceeded mang.
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My bandwidth is back, so you guys can view the photos again :) I worked hard putting this thread together and have gone all over the state to take these pictures, Ill probably make another one in a year after I move and get back to Houston or some other big city hopefully.
Heres a few new ones from my last trip to Eureka Springs, I posted these in my other forum but Ill post em here again anyways. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...erland/e43.jpg Downtown Rogers, AR, home to WalMart. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...erland/e37.jpg Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...erland/e40.jpg This is the building the very first WalMart was in :( http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/e4.jpg Somewhere near Harrison. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/e3.jpg Berryville, in northern Arkansas. |
Here are some old ones Ive never posted before, taken about a year ago from around Arkansas.
http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009008.jpg Fort Chaffee, a huge military base near Ft. Smith in west central Arkansas. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009071.jpg Miss Lauras Social Club, an old whore house in Ft Smith. The entire neighborhood surrounding this house burnt down during the early 1900s and this brothel was the only thing that survived and somehow its survived the 1960s and 70s and is now a museum. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009032.jpg A side street in downtown Ft. Smith, in extreme western Arkansas, on the border of Oklahoma. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009090.jpg An old church or school house near Paris in central Arkansas. Probably wont last much longer, wouldnt surprise me if its gone already. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009096.jpg http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009213.jpg Some pretty hardcore churches can be found while driving the back roads of the Ozarks, heres one. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v1.jpg Downtown Conway http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v5.jpg The only "industry" left in the tiny almost dead town of Perry, deep in the Ouachita Mtns of central AR http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v3.jpg Lake Maumelle, where Little Rock gets its drinking water from. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v2.jpg Little Rock from last weekend. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...ing2009092.jpg I had already posted a couple pictures of Van Buren but its such an awesome place. It is probably one of the nations best preserved and unchanged original river ferry towns from the mid to late 1800s. When you walk around Main Streen Van Buren it really feels like you are back in time. The bank building on the right of this photo is in my opinion, the states most fascinatingly beautiful building. And to think that Russellville had a building almost identical to it back in the 1870s and during the 1980s some asshat had the bright idea to tear it and an entire blocks worth of historic buildings and replace them with a semi brutalist styled Bank of America building and a parking lot, ugh. |
thanks for the new pics. when can i buy your book?
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Same thoughts as LSyd here. When are you coming out with your book? I'd buy it!
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Before I saw the last two posts, I was going to say that these photos would make for a great book on Arkansas. Beautiful pictures--great variety--you really captured the feel of the place!
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I was thinking about making a book of Arkansas at some point. Whenever you see books on this state its always the same crap, pictures of waterfalls or of fall colors. I dont think Ive ever seen a book about the states small towns, or even one on Little Rock. I dont have too many pictures of any of the towns or places in eastern Arkansas and none from north east Arkansas yet. Maybe next semester Ill make some trips that way. Im going to St. Louis and Memphis this weekend though so I can get a few pictures of eastern Arkansas then. But, yes, Ill make a book probably after I graduate and maybe start to work on it next semester.
Heres a few more. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...erland/v10.jpg Hope, in south western Arkansas. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v9.jpg Wicked being played in downtown Little Rock last weekend. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v8.jpg Little Rock Street Car http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...herland/v7.jpg The capitol building |
Awesome pictures. I especially like the picture of the cemetary. Excellent, excellent, excellent thread.
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Very Nice. Very Middle America...
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These are really great. You should come over to Okla. sometime, before you move.
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Beautiful collection.
Funny thing is, I've been to Fort Smith, and looking at a map would have figured that Van Buren was just a boring suburb. It looks like a great town. |
Fantastic set! I have three words for you: MORE MORE MORE!
I was also wondering what people thought of Little Rock in terms of urban living. There's a small chance I may be moving there soon for work and want to know what I might be getting myself into. By the looks of the pictures its charming but what's life like on the streets? |
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No, Van Buren was there before the town of Ft. Smith. The fort was established on the border between the Indian Territory and than the just normal territory. Van Buren was established at the same time as the fort and was a river town that survived off of ferries coming and going from the fort a little further up the river. Then eventually a town grew up around the territorial fort and this became Fort Smith. Overtime Fort Smith became more prominent than Van Buren and thats why the town is so perfectly preserved today. All the urban renewal crap of the 60s and what not was focused on Ft. Smith while Van Buren was forgotten. |
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Main Street is trying to revive itself and a lot of the older buildings soon are going to be converted into condos. Id love to live in Little Rock, it would be about a billion times better than the podunk Im living in now. But it aint no Chicago obviously. Its more like a smaller semi nicer Memphis, or Oklahoma City. Little Rock is semi bike friendly and has an amazing bike trail that is quite extensive that follows the Arkansas River and goes over the worlds longest pedestrian bridge. Little Rock overall is a very beautiful city with lots of historic architecture left. Some of the neighborhoods surrounding downtown, minus the ghettos are probably the most scenic neighborhoods Ive seen in the country. Downtown Little Rock though from an urban perspective is kinda lacking. A whole ton of it was torn down during urban renewal and not much has been built on the subsequent parking lots. Although, I think this will change in the future. I tend to think that one day, Little Rock could become like Austin Texas. It shares a lot of similarities with Austin. The city compared to what it was like 10 years ago is way way way better. The River Market district is always very lively but its about the only street in downtown that regularly has lots of pedestrians on it. The rest of downtown is quite dead although. But, I think any urban oriented person could be happy there. Argenta is right across the river and they have taken great strides in improving that part of the city. The historic main street of Argenta is almost all restored and lots of new urbanist infill developments are going in. I was talking with a girl that worked in a little corner grocery store in Argenta a couple months ago and she had moved from Portland. She said she loved Little Rock, so if you are moving from San Diago you should probably also enjoy it. Basically, I think Little Rock has most the stuff a very large city would have to offer, yet just 10 minutes out of downtown you can find yourself in the mountains. |
^Amazingly helpful. Thank you so much. This is above and beyond. I'll definitely take a closer look at Argenta also.
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Heres a thread I made on Little Rock about a year ago or so. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=160983 |
Great thread! Arkansas has allot of beauty/ugly
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Theres also pictures on the last page...
Heres some I found of mine while looking through some old cds I had. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...d/stuff236.jpg Hot Springs http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...land/stuff.jpg Historic Washington, located in southern Arkansas. It was the state capitol during the Civil War and the original capitol is still there. The town is very well preserved and is basically the Colonial Williamsburg of Arkansas. Theres a lot of houses still within the historic state park that are from the 1830s-40s. This building is the old county courthouse and was built during the 1870s. Its a very cool place that I need to revisit. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff1.jpg Little Rock from 2008. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff2.jpg http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff4.jpg Arkansas Tech football game. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff5.jpg Little Blue Heron http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff7.jpg Bill Clinton Library in downtown Little Rock http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff8.jpg Some people living up in the Ozarks near Longpool Falls. I actually talked with that lady for a while and she grew up in NYC and somehow ended up living like this in the Ozark Mountains, pretty much as far away from civilization as possible. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...and/stuff9.jpg Eureka Springs from 2008, maybe 2009, I cant remember. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...nd/stuff10.jpg A tiny town up in the Ozarks, dont remember its name. But it only had three houses that people still lived in. These buildings probably wont be there in another 15 or so than they will fall apart. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...nd/stuff11.jpg Casa, in central Arkansas in the Ouachita Mtns. |
Every time I log on it's a new surprise! Look absolutely great! Have you been using the same camera for all of these? The sharpness is fantastic.
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You can get any camera pretty much to look that sharp, just use a tripod like I always do, even when theres plenty of light. But of course, its also the lenses that make images sharper. The lens I use the most is my Tokina 12-24mm lens. I also use my Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 lens in a lot of my shots. My camera is a Nikon D200 that I bought back in 2005. I also use a Nikon 10.5mm fisheye lens, a Nikon 18-70mm f3.5 that came with my D70 camera body back in 2003. For my wildlife stuff I usually use my Tamron 200-500mm.
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Damn dude, you've got some great lenses! 10.5 mm fisheye? Holy crap!
Anyhow, I'm going to be in Hot Springs this weekend. Let me know if you might want to take a little trip out there and meet up for some photos! Aaron (Glowrock) |
Words cannot convey how superb I think these photos are.
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^Thankyou so much for the compliments, its greatly appreciated :)
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Heres some more new ones from this weekend
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f4.jpg Russellville http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f3.jpg Russellville http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f1.jpg Forrest City, in the eastern part of the state, near Memphis. Its seen better days, as have most towns in eastern Arkansas. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f2.jpg Forrest City |
Some great work here, Chris. You have a lot of talent.
Although there are better images in the set, I like the one of the church with the roof caved in - is that a tree growing out of the side? |
Thanks man and yeah, there were small trees already growing out of the church but they tore it down about a year ago unfortunately but not like it could be restored anyways.
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Yeah, there was no saving that building.
That almost looks like something out of Pripyat (the abandoned city near the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine). |
Some more new pictures.
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/be19.jpg Somewhere north of West Memphis. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/be18.jpg Levee along the Mississippi http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/be16.jpg Osceola in north eastern Arkansas right along the Mississippi River. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/be14.jpg Carlisle about 40 miles east of Little Rock. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/be10.jpg Just north of West Memphis http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be9.jpg Some small podunk I couldnt find on the map again after going there in north eastern Arkansas. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be8.jpg Luxora, not looking too luxurious these days. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be7.jpg Marshall, in northern Arkansas, north of the Buffalo River. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be6.jpg Marshall http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be5.jpg The abandoned theme park, Dogpatch USA, north of Jasper in the Ozark Mtns. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be4.jpg The Buffalo National River north of Jasper. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be3.jpg A bridge over the Buffalo on Hwy 7 http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be2.jpg The Ozarks near Jasper. http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/be1.jpg The small town of Jasper, a pretty semi touristy town in the heart of the Ozarks. |
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