Inside the Farmhouse Workshop

Inside an old-fashioned outhouse workshop on a vacant farmstead in County Antrim, near the village of Cullybackey. The abandoned farm lies a short distance from the picturesque Arthur Cottage, the ancestral home of Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the USA.

This is deep in prime agricultural country; the fields around are filled with new barley and potatoes. However farming life isn't always easy, and while the fields look verdant and well stocked, derelict farms and cottages pay silent testimony to a time when more folk worked the land around here. Who knows what lives once lit up the walls of this building, and whose voices rang out across the farm?

The whole site seemed remarkably peaceful and undisturbed when I visited and captured this scene. I wanted to encapsulate this feeling of restful timelessness within the panorama, to let the space tell its own story with a thousand tiny details, so I took my time and shot multiple exposures to combine later. I think the results were worth it.

Europe / UK-Northern Ireland

Lat: 54° 53' 16.52" N
Long: 7° 22' 45.52" W

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Precision is: High. Pinpoints the exact spot.

Canon EOS 50D / Sigma 8mm f2.8 / Nodal Ninja 5 / Promote Control.

9x bracketed shots per sequence, processed in Adobe Lightroom, then tonemapped using Enfuse. Stitched with PTGui 8.3.10, final production in Photoshop.