As longtime followers of this blog might know, I am an architectural historian, with a day job, a family, a farm, and I maintain this blog in my free time. My career allows me to combine three of my greatest passions: being outside (and gardening!), writing, and old buildings. I’m not interested in being a social media superstar but I care very deeply about the historic places and vernacular buildings that tell the story of Kentucky. And stories can be told in many different ways, so today I share with you: my first attempt at a movie in the field!
Don’t laugh, but do give kudos to the technical wizard holding the camera in the on-site portion of this one-minute wonder: Gardens to Gables own SouthCentral Kentucky correspondent, Eric Thomason! (After we left this site, there was a hasty and thorough change of clothes as we were both crawling with ticks. See, fieldwork isn’t all glamour and amazing architecture.)
And if I can figure out how to do this (it’s the editing I find tedious) on my own, then I will try to share more tiny movies.
Enjoyed it!!
You did very well…I shall look forward to more of these! 😊
Love you adventures! Thanks for taking us along!
Wonderful! More and longer!!!
You should add to your list of daily duties the search and find the grave markers in grown up cemeteries.
That’s where all the poison ivy oak an sumac grows. Yuck! scratch, scratch, an more scratch…
I enjoy your discoveries an documentation
I applaud counties and cities with the data provided on the structures you study
Love it! I look forward to more and longer movies.
Thank you for your dedication to increase the awareness of these rapidly vanishing homes and other artifacts. Hopefully it will help their preservation efforts.
Good first video. If you are planning on doing many of these videos, especially of you talking in the field, I would invest in a good clip-on microphone with a wireless audio pack. It is nigh on impossible to get good sound in the field with the camera’s mic.
Also, I found the window hoods of this little cottage very interesting. I do not think I have ever seen that type of dentil detail before.
Yes, I got that comment from several people – and it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of a “dead cat lapel!”