Ominous Clouds Over the Aggie Barn in Reagan, Texas
by Silvio Ligutti
Title
Ominous Clouds Over the Aggie Barn in Reagan, Texas
Artist
Silvio Ligutti
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This is a long exposure image of the "Aggie Barn" located along Highway 6 in Reagan, Texas. I had seen some images made of this barn and although they inspired me, I wanted to do something different with it. By attaching a 10-stop neutral density filter to the lens, I managed to expose the image properly for 6 seconds. I then fired ten of these to stack them all together to show the progression of fast moving clouds, which were indeed early morning fog burning out.
A little bit of the barn history taken from http://www.aggiebarn.com
H O W D Y !
"Saving the barn" - The original location of the Aggie Barn was just on the north end of the little Town of Reagan, Texas. A small dot along Highway 6 between College Station and Waco. The Town of Reagan once had several cotton gins, banks and mercantile stores but the town dried up when cotton was no longer a primary crop for the area.
Several years ago, work started to transform Hwy 6 from a two-lane to a four-lane highway. This work included a by-pass around Reagan. The alignment of the by-pass put the road right through the Aggie Barn. About a year before construction, Joe found out about the proposed alignment and contacted the son of Mr. Thaggard Kirkpatrick regarding the plan for the barn. The son did not have any plans to move the barn and Joe would be welcome to move it if he wanted it. He also stated that he had been contacted about the barn being relocated to College Station or elsewhere on his property, but declined to keep the barn on his property due to liability reasons. Joe and Tressa decided to move it to their property rather than letting it be moved out of Reagan or possibly demolished.
As time passed and the start of construction drew near, Joe made a deal to purchase the barn. One week before the barn was to be demolished in September 2006, we had an area house mover haul the center section of the barn down Hwy 6, approximately .3 miles south to land owned by the Swinneas. This is the Aggie Barn's current location. The barn sat in the middle of a vacant field and looked ugly for about a year. In 2006, our time was limited and hard to devote to the reconstruction and renovation of the barn until early 2008. There is never a shortage of old rotten lumber or missing boards that need replacing when working on a hundred year old structure that has been a feed storage and a rat castle for many of the last 50 years.
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November 6th, 2015
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