Tag Archives: Farm

A time to bale…

Round hay bales sit in a farm field at the corner of Baldy Road and Bastain Road on the outskirts of Kutztown Pennsylvania on Thursday 11-17-2011. Nikon D300 with Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 lens, single shot, Aperture Priority mode, F14, ISO 200. I blended several teture layers from the commercially available texture packs from Distressed Tetures to achieve...

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Barn at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains

I found this cool old barn along a bend in the road while exploring New Bethel Church Road in Kempton a while back. The mountains in the background are the Appalachian Mountains. Nikon D7000 with a Tamron 28-300mm F3.6-6.3 LD lens, aperture priority mode, single exposure shot through car windshield @ F11, ISO 200. I...

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“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but you still have to mow it.” –Proverb

I passed this horse farm a thousand times before and never noticed all the great lines offered by the white fence line. The farm is located on Route 183 in West Leesport, PA and is currently offered for sale and includes a small pond with a fountain and a very nicely kept farm house. Nikon...

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No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks…

This one-room schoolhouse is located on Allemaengel Road in New Tripoli, PA. It sits in a farm field and was converted, at some point, from a school into a storage building for the farmer who’s land the building sits on. The sliding door that the farmer installed on the front is now missing but the...

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“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” –Winston Churchill

I found several Ponies grazing in a field next to the Red Caboose Motel and Restaurant in Strasburg, PA on Sunday. I had to wait about an hour to get one of them lined up with the American flag on the fence and the Amish farm in the background. While I was waiting, a baby...

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The road to agriculture

I was rummaging through a box of my old camera stuff on Thursday night and I came across an old Tamron 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 LD lens that I had in its original box from when I bought it back in 1999. The last time I remember using it was at least ten years ago. So I...

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Education evolved into farm life

This is the old one-room schoolhouse in Perry Township, Berks County, PA. The farmer who currently owns it uses the property to store many of his farm implements and tractors. I got lucky on late Sunday afternoon when I went to shoot it and found that the farmer had parked his John Deere 4430 tractor...

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