Tag Archives: Farm

Old barn in Stillwater (Columbia County, PA)

I have wanted to shoot this old barn on route 487 in Stillwater Township, Columbia County, PA for a few years now. I was waiting for some interesting sky or cloud formations. Today was the day. Nikon D300 with a Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 AFS lens, manual focus, aperture priority mode, exposure bracketing for five brackets...

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Planting tobacco, the hard way

This Amish Farmer in Strasburg, PA uses the traditional horse drawn plowing method to till his field, but with a twist. His two Sons ride on the front to provide extra weight for the plow blade and as the horses move the plow every foot and a half or so, they quickly plant a new...

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Neff Round Barn (Centre County, PA)

The Neff Round Barn is one of the most iconic barns in Pennsylvania. It was built in October of 1910 and stands on a farm along side route 45 in Potter Township just outside Centre Hall, PA in Centre County. The barn was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The foundation...

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Sunset on the farm

This farm is located near Neff’s one-room Schoolhouse on Bastian Road between Kutztown and Lyons Station, PA. Funny things sometimes pop into my head while photographing. While photographing this, I was thinking how sunsets on planets that have two or more suns must pose a unique compositional challenge for photographers on those planets. Yeah, sometimes...

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A Farm House without Farmers is still a Farm House

I stumbled on this abandoned farm house on the corner of Little York Pattenburg Road and Bloomsburg Road in Union New Jersey while driving to a Mill I was going to shoot. It has lots of character and is apparently for sale by a realty company though it doesn’t look like it’s been lived in...

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Golden hour in the valley

The setting sun brings with it the golden rays of warm light that bathe this Gensinger Road farm outside of Kutztown, Pennsylvania. I shot this as nine bracketed RAW frames at 1 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR and tone mapped it with HDR Efex Pro from NIK Software. I’m still not...

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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." –Charles Dickens

I’ve passed this farm a million times and lately I noticed how the late afternoon golden hour light hits the back side of the barns and corn crib. Light takes on the quality of the things it bounces off of and I think the corn field makes the golden light even more golden if you...

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