This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway – Bob Dylan ……………………………………………………….. Why are barns red? Traditionally, barns were painted with a linseed oil mixture, sometimes containing milk and lime. The red color came with the addition of […]
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field – Dwight D. Eisenhower ………………………………………………………. Canon EOS 5D Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. – H.U. Westermayer ……………………………………………………… Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel – E.B. White ……………………………………………………. Just south of Monticello (south-central Wisconsin), surrounded by farm fields, barns and winding country roads, a ferris wheel and other midway rides rise from a pasture. The scene is surreal – perhaps a carnival ride farm? Young […]
When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it – Charles de Lint ……………………………………………………….. I have to go back sometime and retry this shot, I’m not happy with it. It was too dark to go handheld but I […]
Dusk, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value – Claude Monet ……………………………………………………. This was […]
