Posted on 04/22/2014 1:12:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
Artist and photographer Michael Paul Smith has spent hours upon hours photographing one special town that he holds very dear to his heart. There is something that always drew him to it, and the images he created are simple, but stunning. They glow with small-town charm and innocence, reminiscent of days and decades past.
The town he photographs is quaint and beautiful.
Its like each picture tells a story of how life used to be in the United States.
Theres not much going on in these pictures, but its obvious that this town is nothing but charm.
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Hanover wasn’t rich, just a small rural town.
I would just love to have the time on my hands to do something like that. I’ve pretty much resigned to be taken out of work feet first some day now, but I’m glad someone can take the time to do something so nice as this.
Bkmk
I was blown away! I recognized most of the vehicles! LOL!
I didn’t check to see if there are any miniature models of humans with the hood up on any of those cars. :’)
Wish I had the patience and the steady hand for it.
There was a one page article in the April Popular Science about a compressed-air-powered vehicle a couple of people had built almost entirely out of Lego, I probably could handle something like that. :’)
yeah, it’s here also:
They were not made of burlap but of cotton. Even had flower prints so women could make dresses. The ones with the name brand on them were made into drawers. I remember and I am not that old.
When I was a kid and into war-gaming I use to paint small lead figures, usually I did the final details with a single strand of hair. Now my arms aren't long enough nor do they make a set of cheaters strong enough to even come close to what I could do then...
Lol.
“The ones with the name brand on them were made into drawers.”
That’s funny.
That would have been really cool!
Yeah, like you, my close-in vision would be perfect if my arms were about a foot longer. In the 1970s the lead miniatures were the rage with the D&D crowd (this was in college), but not everyone had the money, so a few were buying them and painting them, and one guy I knew took a larger scale (from a different manufacturer) and painstakingly whittled it down into some WWII era tank that no one made in miniature at the time, just to one-up the other major miniature collector in the dorm. It was hilarious. I have no idea how they found the time to go to school.
We have two of them....which we painted green.
Thanks for the link.
Two words: Twilight Zone.
Great photos!
My pleasure.
I keep expecting to see some dude with brylcremed hair and a cigarette dangling from his lips changing a tire or something.
He places the camera so that you see real landscape and sky in the distance. Only the foreground buildings and cars are models.
Beautiful.
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