Found on a wall in Carlton. This has been up for years. Still poignant in its message.
heart leaf on texture
Robins singing, grass growing, Pasque flowers poking up through the soil … Spring in the Heartland wouldn’t be complete without BABY LAMBS! These two were huddled together while their moms munched on hay a few feet away. Southeast South Dakota, March 2008
- – - – - – - – - – - – / ...See the sunrise over her skin / She feels like water in my hand / Freeway, like a river / Cuts through this land / Into the side of love / Like a burning spear / And the poison rain / Like dirty tears / Through the ghostranch hills / Death Valley waters / In the towers of steel / Belief goes on and on / In this heartland… / - – - – - – - – - – - – / Heartland by U2 / If you don’t have the song, you can listen to it on YouTube This photo was taken on the Great Alpine Rd, south of Omeo, VIC. Canon 40D w/ EF-S 10-22mm / Focal length @ 18mm / Aperture: f/22 / Shutter: 1/25sec / ISO: 100
A haystack in a dusty field on an early September day in the early evening. Actually, the stripped bark of a tree.
This picture was taken for the Sydney Morning Herald Heartland competition. The shot was taken at 6.15 in the morning 20mm Focus / F22 / ISO 100 / 0.6 sec I also used blue Cellophane on the top right hand corner, that is how I got the blue tint. Canon EOS 450D
Tree bark in Tokyo. I saw a figure in it, very small, praying on the edge of a precipice. I dodged the area around it to highlight what I saw. A little photoshopping for levels and contrast.
Look around, never know what you’ll find. / Featured in the Central Coast and Hunter Group
In the early days fodder to get the stock through the winter was usually hay. The whole process was done by hand in the earliest days later a horse draw hay rake like the one shown was used. The hay then was place by hand into stacks around a pole to help keep it from blowing away. By pressing the hay down as they started and latter by the weight of the hay, it would become fairly waterproof. This took a certain skill by the stackers. The hay would cure by the heat generated by the release of moisture in the hay and compression. A fence was then place around the stack to keep the stock out until it was time for them to feed on it….Image was taken on The Mountain Farm Museum, GSMNP. The barn seen is the Enloe-Floyd Barn, and is of the Shotgun style
One of the more modern structures in Cades Cove. A lot of the barns that were there, have gradually fallen in and nature reclaimed them. I can remember back to when a few people still lived in the Cove. They were allowed to live there by an arrangement with the park service when the land was sold. They are all gone now including those that stayed in the cabins in the Elkmont area. This barn sits beside the Cades Cove Loop Road. It still is in great shape and will probably out live me. I wish I had thought and taken the time 30 years ago and shoot a lot of the structures that are forever gone. Hind site is always better than foresight. Never pass up a chance for a shot, what you pass up today may be gone tomorrow…a block and tackle was often hung from the overhang of the roof to pull hay up and into the window up top.. image taken as mornings 1st light tops over the ridge to warm the already beautiful colors,and intensify parts of the field back of the barn…Cades Cove is located in the Great Smoky Mountains and one of the more heavily visited areas.
The Homestead Author: Nautilus Blue On a dry dusty road following alongside a river, / So beautiful the scenery would make a body shiver, / Warm summer sunlight on my face / Takes my breath away just being in this place Around a bend a knowing stand of gum trees stood, / In their shadow an elegant homestead made of iron and wood / The old picket fence had hardly a lick of paint / Rusty hinges held on the wrought iron the gate Sheets of roofing iron flapped in the breeze / Grand old lady once had a family to please / Double French doors and timber floors / Peered through the shattered glass / Looked a hundred years back into the past The lady of the house, hardworking, determined and strong / Makes breakfast for her family, but she’s a ghost in my song / Her long skirts whisper across the warm timber floors / She’s busy about her every day chores Her children from their snug warm beds rise / Still wiping the sleep from their eyes / They are all her life her pride and joy, / Two blonde haired girls and her only boy Smoke curls out of the chimney its early morn, / Her husband rode out sometime before dawn, / He’s gone drovin’, don’t know when he’ll be back, / She’ll see him again when he comes riding down the track A gust of wind, the windmill labours to turn / From my daydream I sadly return
Out in the middle of Waterville, the silence is broken only by a faint rasp of wind over empty fields… Tonal qualities, and tilt-shift effect done in post work
This may not look to be that comfortable to ride. It was a lot easier that raking hay by hand. This old horse drawn hay rake could rake bout what 8 men could do in a given time. That would leave a lot of time for other chores. More often then not, one of the younger kids would drive the rake, and the older kids and men would gather and put up the hay. This was pulled thru the field of cut hay. The tines would collect the hay. When they were full the lever would be pull releasing the hay in a pile. Then it would be gathered and taken to where they stored it. This may be crude by today’s standards but in its hay days this was a major improvement to putting up hay…….image taken at the Mountain Farm Museum at the Cherokee NC entrance to the Great smoky Mountain NP
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel-arch bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. With a length of 3,030 feet Its arch extends 1,700 feet. Part of U.S. Highway 19, it is crossed by an average of 16,200 motor vehicles per day The New River Gorge Bridge carries U.S. Highway 19 over the New River at a height of 876 feet making it the highest vehicular bridge in the Americas, and the second-highest in the world. / / Construction began on the bridge in June 1974, and completed on October 22, 1977. source Wikepedia photograph taken in March, 2009 no edits of any kind thank you for viewing my work!~
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Welcome to my art, circa 2006. As you can tell, I’ve always been enamored with texture. These are textures overlayed onto my own photography of abandoned farmhouses in Waterville, Washington. This one is the first in a series of four. My sweet friend Wendy has always loved these, and so – I dedicate this long overdue posting of the work to her.
Welcome to my art, circa 2006. As you can tell, I’ve always been enamored with texture. These are textures overlayed onto my own photography of abandoned farmhouses in Waterville, Washington. This one is the second in a series of four. My sweet friend Wendy has always loved these, and so – I dedicate this long overdue posting of the work to her.
Welcome to my art, circa 2006. As you can tell, I’ve always been enamored with texture. These are textures overlayed onto my own photography of abandoned farmhouses in Waterville, Washington. This one is the third in a series of four. My sweet friend Wendy has always loved these, and so – I dedicate this long overdue posting of the work to her.
Welcome to my art, circa 2006. As you can tell, I’ve always been enamored with texture. These are textures overlayed onto my own photography of abandoned farmhouses in Waterville, Washington. This one is the fourth in a series of four. My husband and I, and our good friend Jeremy often go ‘photo hunting’ up by these houses. They sit out on the stark landscape of a high desert prairieland….and never fail to capture our imagination. My sweet friend Wendy has always loved these, and so – I dedicate this long overdue posting of the work to her.
Campground on the backwaters of the Mississippi River / Sabula, Iowa (an island in the river) (Canon Rebel XTi)
View of the River from Palisades State Park, high above the water.
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