In June, we took part in an annual event here in Brown County called, “The Log Cabin Tour”. Five to six houses are selected that rage from small, (900sqft with no electricity) to the huge. (5,500sqft with all the bells and whistles) Our cabin fell somewhere in the middle. The money that is raised by the tour goes to educational programs and food for those who need it.
Shortly after the tour, we were again selected by a magazine named “Country’s Best Cabins”, to be featured in their publication. They sent a photographer named Joseph Hilliard out last week to do the shoot. To say it was interesting would be a huge understatement.
http://www.josephhilliard.com/index2.php?ver=v1
I have added Joe’s web site here in case you’re interested in seeing his outstanding work.
If you choose to visit his site, you can select “Log Homes” in his gallery listing and see some of the architecture he photographs. Most of these “Cabins” have front doors that cost more than our entire house! And, after viewing Joe’s site, I am wondering why I submitted ours for consideration.
If you are like most of us, looking at a 2 million dollar house is interesting, but not feasible, or maybe not even desirable. I think this is why we were selected. Our house is more normal in size and doable by most anyone, specially in price if you’re doing it yourself.
This is Joe.
I am happy to say that Joe uses a Canon camera and so do I. Are you impressed? Mine cost over $400. Joe’s was a bit more. (20 times more) He was kind in allowing me to shadow him during the process. I learned a few things, most of which I can not use because it takes proper equipment, of which I am not likely to purchase. Needless to say, lighting is a big part of it.
This thing below, is a controller for flash units. It allows a photographer to control the intensity of the flash and so much more than I can describe.
Large lights and what-not.
I would have liked to have a large format photo to post, but all I have is a small one Joe e-mailed to me. It’s a wide angle picture showing the whole back ‘Yard” for the first time in one picture.
I encourage you to go to Joseph Hilliard’s site and look at his photos. Awesome! And the log “cabins” are really something to see.
