"I found it impossible…..

…… to regard the Frollett Homestead and not hear the chants of the ghosts of children, children who play there no longer. Children grown
old. Children passed on. The day I visited the Frollett homestead I kept looking at my octogenarian host, only to see beside me a boy not yet eight." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

I liked the way that the pine cones and pine needles contrast one another , I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.



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"The blacks are inky…..

………. and the colour bold; you don’t need to know anything about art to know the day’s top graphic artists and illustrators were behind
them. Hulls of magnificent ocean liners. Snow-capped Rockies. Golden fields stretching on forever." (Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )


The beautiful old organ was part of an old church, now abandoned, I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.


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"I awoke the next morning……

…….. in the back seat of my car, along a stretch of highway 70 miles east of where I know I drove Mr. Elliott the previous afternoon. My mouth was dry and my rearview mirror did not like my face." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

I loved the way that the car hood sits onto of the old gear mechanism, I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.


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“Grandpa Frollett?”……

…….. Mr. Elliot asked. When he smiled, the space between his gums where his teeth or his dentures should have been provided an odd symmetry to the missing planks, the vanished timber of the shapes that once housed him." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead")

These old boards were part of an old water flume at one time , that helped irrigate a dry valley to produce beautiful fruit, I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.



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"Why build a road that…..

……. erases itself, even from the relief of remembrance otherwise afforded by rearview confirmation? Everyone else clamours for my attention and so should these roads. How can I know I exist when design wills me not to notice? Why do you exist if I can remember nothing but traffic lights and white billboard incisors the size of the Uhaul trailers that mark the end of months?" ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )


These old car parts and bike frame may not seem all that interesting at first, I find that there is a beauty in these old car parts , I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.



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"Houses abandoned and homes grow……

…… derelict repel us. The failure of the material that once sheltered biologies like our own reminds us what’s the matter: our own matter will fare much worse than the wood or stone, even the brick that could not keep us safe from ourselves." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

The old barn sits off in a field along a little twisty road on the edge of town, I made the picture with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.

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"On the outside….

……. the house looked like it was falling down, but I could see the wisdom in this neglect. The homestead looked so uninviting that were anyone to stumble across it few but the foolhardy would venture anywhere near its entrances." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

The picture was taken at quiet location along a country road with rolling hills, I tried to imagine what it would have been like many years ago, when the building were first constructed, image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.


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"Imagine if our skeletons……

…….were left where they fell, sun-bleached bones like disused homes inhabited only by the wind, battered by the rain." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )


As I walked along a forest path, off to the side my eye caught these white bones glinting in the sun, I couldn't resist making a photograph, I made the picture with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.

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"The initial structure……

…… has stood since, at least, 1885. Unlike the rest of the property, the old house remains in good condition. The words free love are painted in a sloppy, slovenly hand across the front door and a peace symbol underneath one of two bay windows forever drips excess paint from
the perimeter of its circle." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )


I liked the look of the cracked plaster and weathered boards, the contrast of light and dark worked well for my black and white image, I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera and a 120mm lens.


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"The chairs on which we sat….

…… were not nearly as well-preserved as that old bull. Rickety old school chairs from which all but a few flecks of paint had peeled off, neither one was stable. As we talked, one of us was constantly tipping, and this leg or another kept tapping against the floor." (Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

I liked the look of the old chair against the rustic garage door, I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera a 120mm lens.


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"Two log cabins……

……..one to either side of the main homestead, still stood, but to what purpose I could not tell. Their doors and their roofs had long since been burned for firewood. Both shacks built, Mr. Elliott said, around 1910, already betrayed the traces of lore lost, even amongst the trades. We
are not the first generation to complain, “They don’t build them like they used to.” (Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead")

The old stairs may seem a bit rickety but they have been used by many people along a forest path, I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera with the 120mm lens.


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"I pressed a button…..

…… to lower the power windows. I know what you’re thinking: power windows? How the heck is a third-string reporter driving around with power windows? Listen, I don’t mind telling you: the folks at Larry Leonard ChevOlds over on Lake and Dadson will take care of you." ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

This old derelict truck may not have had power windows, it was abandoned long ago to rot in the bush, thus becoming one in nature , I made the image with my 4 x 5 film camera with the 120mm lens.

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"The road to the Frollett homestead….

……is one of those overgrown underused wisps of gravel that presents itself so quickly you’re never sure whether it existed only in your imagination.One curve around every gentle bend an exit opens and then is gone, a message subliminally flashed across a wartime movie screen by unscrupulous propagandists. Commuters seem to recall passing scores of them daily but can never remember where. The uncertainty of their existence unsettles. Why build a road that erases itself, even from the relief of remembrance otherwise afforded by rearview confirmation? " ( Copyright © 2010 Colin Snowsell from the book, "The Frollett Homestead" )

I found these old mailboxes interesting to photograph, especially now a days with most people using email or some other electronic forms to communicate like twitter, the image was taken with a Tachihara 4 x 5 view camera, ( film ) and a 120mm lens.

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Welcome to The Frollett Homestead

I would like to introduce you the "The Frollett Homestead", "An astonishing story of Mystery, despair and longing". The book features a dozen of my black and white fine art images, ( all still life subjects ). The novella is written by Canadian author, Colin Snowsell of Kelowna, B.C., which is due to hit the book store shelves next month and can also be ordered online. To help launch the book I am planning to feature one picture a day from the book and some of Colin's fine writing.

This is the first issue of the Frollett Homestead with a limited edition of 500 paperback copies numbered and signed by the author and photographer.

To read more about the book and the local launch parties click "HERE".