Topic: Rural / Farm Area

I took this photo of a grain elevator out in the middle of nowhere near Chapin, Iowa this past week while on a Railroad Photography Road Trip with a friend. We spent 5 days in Wisconsin and Iowa photographing railroad related items. What a great trip it was!

Feel free to add your own for a loose-themed thread on Rural / Farm type photos...



RL

Humboldt County sheep




Windmills on the central coast

35mm with me on my mail route. That's what got me back into photography.

That gray color of old wood is so nice with all the green around it.

RL

have hay fever it is hell. We're usually the first or second state in pollen. You can see it in the air. You have to brush the pollen off your windshield. In the fall it is like a yellow cloud. You can feel it.

We are called the Bluegrass state, but that crap needs too much water.

now how did you get the sheep to go in a photographable pose - all three of them in the middle of the pic? :)

Makes me wish I taken more of an interest in rural/farm shots when I lived there and had a real camera. Your trip sounds incredible. I know nothing about trains. Did you follow a certain old "route"? I really like your shot of the grain elevator. Surprised that it is still standing.

My only contribution to this thread.... it's an old "instamatic" shot I took of the School House that my father attended. It's near a small town in Iowa called Afton. Shortly after we were married I took Ms F, a New York city girl, on a nostalgic trip through Iowa and stopped at all the old farms and houses I once lived in. She could hardly contain her excitement at the time. :eyes:

We followed the lines of the Chicago & North Western (Gone 1995, Now Union Pacific), Chicago Great Western (Gone 1968), Milwaukee Road (Gone 1980's) and Minneapolis & St. Louis (Gone 1960) Railroads.

Some new regional railroads use the track now, other places it's gone. Some old depots remain.

RL

Atop Debra Bizan in the Eritrean highlands. Debra Bizan is a monastery east of Asmara. No women are allowed, not even female animals can be taken to the top of the mountain. One time a female journalist tried to see the monastery. She went in disguise but her identity was discovered. She was thrown off the side of the mountain. The picture shows the point where she was thrown.

How did you obtain this remarkable photograph? There is so much I want to see before I take the long nap.

Actually threw a woman off that rock? Heavy shit. Guess it isn't much different here. Our "modern western" society just does it differently. Pay less, marginalize,....

No women were up there, but there were young boys. Another monastery to the south called Debra Damon is unique in that you have to use ropes to get up to it and to leave.

This little girl lived in the town of Nefasit below the monastery. (Nefasit = fresh air)

I won't be attempting to see that monastary in this lifetime.

It even has the ostrich eggs attached to the coptic cross at the crown of the building.

...Sort of a clichŽ, but a nice shot I took in early spring out here in Colorado:

Is it on a hiking trail now?

RL

Actually a bike path. :)

...as long as they're done as well as that.

RL

...on the plateau just north of Mt. Rainier.