I was waiting for a train at a crossing the other day, just watching the cars roll by. I happened to look out of my right window and I saw this lovely creature watching me watch the train. It was a nice dreary rainy day with dark but soft light and I couldn’t help but to take a portrait. Cattle…
Tag: rural
Just a thing
I see lots of things when I am out and about and todays photo is one of them. The bathtub in the field is an almost normal sighting in rural areas. A place for water or feed for livestock, I imagine. Most times they are near the barn or at least in the immediate vicinity, but this one wasn’t near…
Imagined blur
A gimmick. Processing trickery. Whatever you want to call it, we have all seen the so-called “miniature” effect where the image is artificially blurred at the top and bottom creating the illusion of a miniature scene captured with the narrow depth of field of a macro lens. It works well with a shot from a skyscraper looking down on the…
I need to get to the point
A roadside find I came across today. These skulls and antlers were on the side of a barn in West Virginia, which was literally right next to the road . Besides the collection I really liked the matching patina of the bones and barn siding. They all kind of blended together, which made it a little difficult to photograph. So I…
There for a reason
I saw this farm fence today and I thought the location of it warranted a photo. The fence itself is nothing unusual, just the normal post and wire ensemble, but as you can tell, the background sure looked crazy. The fence is on the side of a country road and immediately behind it is a ravine, where the large, scraggly tree…
Drive-by autumn
So, getting back to the autumn picture thing. I had all intentions of not trying to capture the fall season on camera anymore but I kept seeing colorful trees everywhere today. With the gray cloudy skies the colors seemed to pop more than usual. But since I was working today I couldn’t spend time taking photos so these are just…
Sign at the stop sign
Regular readers know that I like to document old weathered structures and details. I especially like to shoot them because I think they go unnoticed most of the time and I feel it is my duty 🙂 to show people the beauty that lies within the old structures that they pass by all of the time. One bit of Americana…
Sometimes you just like a photo for no apparent reason
I like todays picture. I’m not really sure why. It doesn’t offer much along the lines of subject matter – just some black cattle, scattered around the photo. It’s not necessarily a good composition. The image is kind of dark, in my opinion, but I wanted it that way. I wanted the black cattle to be black, just like they looked in…
Woodsy
A little diversion from the carnival and into the woods of West Virginia. Just a lot of trees there.
Carnival overload
Are you ready for more carnival pictures? Sure you are!! I hope I’m not boring everyone with the “fair” based photos of late but I’m kind of liking all of the color. As you can tell from past posts I tried to vary my approach while shooting. I stayed away from out-and-out people pics, which would be the WAY obvious…
What I Pic 