A corn crib barn stands out in a Northumberland County corn field. Taken back on 4-2-2010 during a Covered Bridge trip through the Pennsylvania counties of Northumberland and Union.

I shot this as five bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop increments handheld and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro. Textures applied from the commercial texture packs purchased from Flypaper Textures and Distressed Textures.

Update on my leg for those that have asked – Just got back from the Surgeon. He says after eight weeks, there isn’t enough healing so I have to wait at least another month. Because of some other long term health issues I have, the bone isn’t healing as fast as it should. Looking at the X-Ray, realistically I would guess that I may be able to walk and drive again sometime in the Winter. My entire Summer has evaporated. [insert very, very bad words here]

After an afternoon storm passed through the Oley Valley, the sun made a return and bathed this Hoch Road farm in golden light before setting. I shot this last year on 7-29-2009 and had posted a different shot of this farm previously but I wanted to do a version that was a little less heavy handed on the processing and a little different crop.
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I shot this barn along route 60 in Crawley, West Virginia during my rainy weekend trip back on 10-17-2009. I had previously posted a version of this but I wanted a textured version with a painterly look to it because I think the fall colors and the overcast nature of the image works better as painterly. So here it is.

I applied several textures purchased as part of the new Summer Painterly Texture Pack at Flypaper Textures.

I wish I could remember where this farm was located. It was somewhere after the Sam Wagner covered bridge but I have not been able to locate it on any of the satellite maps. From my 4-2-2010 trip through Northumberland and Union Counties covered bridge excursion.

I shot this as seven hand held bracketed RAW frames at .7th stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image.

This is another look at the Star Barn complex including the main barn in the background, the hog barn in the foreground and the top of the poultry barn off to the left.

The Star Barn is located in Middletown, PA just off route 283. It was built in 1872 and there have been recent fund raising drives and organizational activities centered around moving the entire Star Barn complex to a new home in Grantville, PA where it will act as a museum and agricultural outreach of sorts. On the day that I shot this, it was extremely windy and the think dark clouds looked like they would open up and drench the barn at any moment. I want to go back on a better weather day and capture some of the famous reflections of the barn in the nearby pond.

For more information on the Star Barn and its rich heritage, visit www.thestarbarn.com.

I shot this as five bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image.

This is a look at the roof line, famous star louvers and ornate cupolas of the corn crib barn at the Star Barn complex located in Middletown, PA just off route 283. It was built in 1872 and there have been recent fund raising drives and organizational activities centered around moving the entire Star Barn complex to a new home in Grantville, PA where it will act as a museum and agricultural outreach of sorts. On the day that I shot this, it was extremely windy and the thick dark clouds looked like they would open up and drench the barn at any moment. I want to go back on a better weather day and capture some of the famous reflections of the barn in the nearby pond.

For more information on the Star Barn and its rich heritage, visit www.thestarbarn.com.

I shot this as five bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image before converting it to black and white with NIK Silver FX Pro.

Two horses graze in a field in front of the Bertolet barn at the Daniel Boone Homestead. It was really windy today with gusts up to 50MPH so it was a challenge to try and find things to photograph. The value of a good quality sturdy tripod cannot be underestimated on a day like today.

I shot this as five bracketed RAW frames at .7 stop variance and then combined them into an HDR and toned mapped them with Photomatix Pro to create the final product. I’d like to thank the horses for the minimal amount of movement in between shots. They were especially cooperative today.

For more information on visiting the Daniel Boone Homestead visit their web site.

This is an old barn from my travels through Union County back on 4-2-2010. According to the GPS in my car, the small town was called New Columbia. Hopefully by now, the farmer has planted some of his crops and is getting ready for another season of prosperous farming in North Central Pennsylvania.

You can tell this barn was used to store hay in the top 2/3rd of the building by the louvered windows. It’s important to provide a lot of ventilation for hay especially if it is cut wet and stored because it will have a tendency to spontaneously combust otherwise

I shot this as seven hand held bracketed RAW frames at .7 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image.

I wish I remembered where this barn actually was but the on-camera GPS geotagged this as being in a location in the middle of the woods where it couldn’t possibly have been. I know it was near the end of a very long downhill road before it joined up with another road. Sometimes you just drive around and stumble upon great old barns like this.

I shot this as five hand held bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image. Cokin Pro-Z graduated neutral density filter used to counteract some of the contrastyness of the sun at that time.

A large imposing Amish barn located on Route 54 in Watsontown, PA which is part of Northumberland County. This area of PA has some really great, old barns to photograph.

I shot this as five hand held bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image. I brought out some of the wood grain with Topaz Adjust 4.

I stumbled across this barn somewhere in Northumberland County, PA on Friday. Unfortunately the GPS unit I bought for the camera failed to geotag it’s location. It was somewhere on the drive between the Rishel Covered Bridge and the Sam Wagner Covered Bridge. I love old barn wood like this.

I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop increments handheld and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image and then applied some love to it with the Topaz Adjust 4 plugin to bring out the features in the wood.

This is an old farm house located on the corner of Passmore and Hoffmansville Roads in Bechtelsville, PA just north of Grandview Speedway. Google maps satellite view still shows the barn that was once located along the Passmore Road side of the farm. Someone is still farming the land and there were hay bales from last year’s crop still in the field. In the summer months, the front of this house gets completely overgrown with Ivy.

I shot this as five bracketed RAW frames at 1/3rd stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image and then applied some love to it with the Topaz Adjust 4 plugin to bring out the features in the wood.

I found this old barn at the corner of Route 184 and Caldwell Road in Trout Run, PA, a remote section of Lycoming County. The harvester wagon is loaded with corn that is commonly grown for feeding livestock, primarily hogs. It’s different from “sweet corn” which is meant for human consumption.

I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames at .7 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image and then applied some love to it with the Topaz Adjust 4 plugin to bring out the features in the wood.