Tag Archives: Textured

Wagner Mill (Northampton County, PA)

Stoffel Wagner built this Mill in 1767 and several generations of the Wagner family operated it over the span of 200 years. The Mill is located on West Walnut Street just off of Route 412 in Lower Saucon Township which is near Hellertown, PA in Northampton County. The Hellertown Historical Society uses the Miller’s house,...

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Outhouse at Upper Edelman Schoolhouse (Northampton County, PA)

The Upper Edelman One-Room Schoolhouse is located on the corner of Route 191 and Bookskill Road in Plainfield, PA. It has been restored to an early 1900s appearance and is outfitted with school desks, blackboards, books and other items that would have been found in the school at the turn of the 20th century. The...

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The widsom of the trees is sometimes grave…

I blended several creative commons texture layers from Flickr member pareeerica to achieve the ghostly look I wanted.

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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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“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” — Angela Monet

I was out shooting barns and horses and hay bales the other morning when I stopped at a small horse farm in Bowers, PA that I knew had adult horses, ponies and mini-horses along with Alpacas and several other types of animals. These two ponies would taunt one another until one of them would raise...

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I live in a simple place during complex times…

A Mennonite farmer navigates his horse and buggy down Bastain Road past the Neff’s One-Room Schoolhouse on the outskirts of Kutztown Pennsylvania on Thursday 11-17-2011. Nikon D300 with Tamron 28-300mm lens, single shot, Aperture Priority mode, F14, ISO 200. Shot through my car’s windshield while parked. Sometimes timing is everything. I blended several texture layers...

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Tattered and torn and wiser for the experience…

Every year Rick Frey, owner of the “Please Wash Me Car Wash” in Elverson, Pennsylvania, hangs up a sign at his business that alerts the locals to when the sunflower field located behind his business is ready for picking. The locals are invited at that time to come down and pick the sunflowers and take...

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