Tag Archives: Textured

Date Night

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...

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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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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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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” –Rabindranath Tagore

This is a West Coast Lady Butterfly from the Hershey Gardens Butterfly House. I blended several textures from the commercially available texture packs from Paint The Moon Textures and Flypaper Textures to give it the artistic look I wanted.

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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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