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, on the opposite side of the mill, as their headquarters and is responsible for the renovations and upkeep of the mill. The footprint of the structure is 35′x55′ with the mill being constructed of fieldstone. It is 2.5 stories high with a 2.5 story, 25′x35′ addition that forms the mill in an “L” shape. There is a park setting surrounding the mill with two mill ponds and a creek, a baseball field and park benches to watch the ample waterfowl population. The soft, golden afternoon sun is at your back as you shoot across the smaller of the two mill ponds and it makes for a beautiful reflection. This mill is a “must see”.

Shot 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 blended several teture layers from the commercially available texture packs from Distressed Tetures and Flypaper Textures to give it the artistic look I wanted.

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 schoolhouse is open for tours on the third Saturday of the month from May through October from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The building is owned by Pleasing Valley Charitable Foundation. There is avideo on YouTube that shows both the exterior of the school and the interior as viewed through the windows.

I shot this as five 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 blended several textures from Kim Klassen in order to get the soft, aged, painterly look I was going for.

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

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 the painterly look I wanted.

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 up on two legs, enticing the other one to “dance” for a while before the taunting would start all over again. It was fun to watch.

Nikon D300 with a Tamron 28-300mm F3.6-6.3 LD lens, manual priority mode, single exposure @ F5.6, 1/125 second, ISO 640.

I blended several textures from Kim Klassen in order to get the soft, aged, painterly look I was going for.

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 from the commercially available texture packs from Distressed Tetures to achieve the painterly look I wanted.

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 photos with them and it’s become an annual tradition in Elverson. The field is owned by Dr. Scott Wallace and his family. Local farmer Gary Stoltzfus does the plowing each year and picks out the seeds to be planted and a fellow named Dave Mast does the planting of the sunflower seeds. When I arrived at the field, long after the sunflower season had passed, only a few plants still stood in the field but there were enough for a few shots.

Nikon D7000 with Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 AFS lens, Aperture Priority mode, F11, ISO 100.

I blended several teture layers from the newly released teture pack (highly recommended) called “Painted Days and Canvas Skies” from Distressed Tetures to achieve the painterly look I wanted.

An young Amish couple cruise past Herr’s Mill Covered Bridge on Ronks Road in their horse and buggy.

I shot this one as a single exposure, hand held, through my car windshield while driving. Nikon D300 with Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 AFS lens, aperture priority mode, F7.1, 1/400th shutter speed, ISO 400.

Tetures blended into this one include those from Lenabem-Anna and Shadow House Creations.

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 blended several textures from Darkwood67, Distressed Textures and Kim Klassen in order to get the soft, painterly look I was going for.

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 D7000 with a Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 AFS lens, manual focus, aperture priority mode, exposure bracketing for three brackets @ F11, ISO 100. HDR and tone map post-processing completed with NIK HDR Efex Pro.

I blended several textures from Darkwood67 and Shadow House Creations and Kim Klassen in order to get the soft, painterly look I was looking for.