A Year in Pictures – Tools in a Bucket

[swan_tower]

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These are in a house in Zakopane that’s made up as a small museum, showing what rural life looked like back in the day. I don’t imagine every household carved the handles of their tools quite so interestingly, but some probably did — Polish winters are pretty long, after all — and since there’s a woodcarver’s workshop attached to the house (the place where I photographed this), it’s not surprising here.

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Comments

[pameladean]

Oh, I really like this one.

P.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I'm glad! Sometimes when I post pictures of something that is not, in its own right, especially spectacular, I wonder whether I'm the only person who finds the shot nifty.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Hopkins would.

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim

PS. I LOVE that kind of museum. I saw one, a cabin with a crocheted spread on the small bed, and on the side table a book titled "The Death And Burial of the Three Little Kittens".

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Poor kittens! O_O

[pameladean]

The tools are intrinsically nifty, but the light and the texture and the composition enhance this.

P.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty apt description of what makes me like most of my "object" photos.

[pameladean]

Not for nothing have I lived with photographers for decades!

P.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Fair point. :-)

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Some time ago, possibly on the Panopticon, I read about a mine museum that had a similar house and how absolutely full of needlework it was. When the surest way you get to have decoration is to make it, you decorate everything.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

And when you have limited entertainment options . . . .