Category: Farm Life
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Winter Blahs
There’s not much going on at the farm right now. The sheep are getting fat. We fill hay feeders, fill water tanks, and repeat. I haven’t been taking many pictures, so there isn’t much to show. Last week we had help, and we got all of the ram lambs’ toes trimmed. We still have the Continue reading
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Unintended Consequences
One of the issues with solar panels being high off the ground (to keep them out of the rams’ reach) is that they’re also too high for us to easily reach. We need to brush the snow off them. Now, if they were on the roof, we’d just have to wait until the snow melted. Continue reading
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Passageway
We stack the hay so we can stay under cover and still feed the sheep. Ewes are on the left and hay is on the right. Prompt: Make a photo of a hallway or passage and post it today. Continue reading
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Strong Light and Distant Visitors
I did a farm tour for a group of Peruvian weavers. They went in and were interested in both our sheep and our solar setup. This was the only picture I got, but I love the sharp light in it. Prompt: Make a photograph today with strong, direct light that casts crisp, dark shadows. Continue reading
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Clean Ditch
A pleasing vista is a ditch cleaned when I didn’t have to dig it. This is the back catch ditch, and we had a trackhoe in to clean it out. It hadn’t been cleaned for 20+ years. Prompt: The dictionary defines a vista as a pleasing view. Make a photo of a vista that pleases Continue reading
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Moving Hay
Carefully balanced. Prompt: The word balance has many meanings, both literal and abstract. Pick one and make a photograph today. Continue reading
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Centered Bale
Center of the bale, plus centered in the frame. Prompt: Make a photograph today that has a strongly centered composition. Continue reading
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Pond Edge
We had the cattails cleaned out of the pond. Now you can finally see the pond edge. Prompt: Make a photograph of an edge of something today. The edge of a knife, the water’s edge, or some other edge. Continue reading
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Cleaning Ditches
I’m watching the trackhoe clean out the catch ditch from the shop window. This was the highest viewpoint I could do. Prompt: Make a photograph today of an interesting subject with as vertical or high a point of view as you can manage. Continue reading
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Garden Bounty
The simplest of garden pleasures: a lovely, vine-ripened tomato. Prompt: Simplicity is economy. Make the simplest photograph you can today. Take things out until you can’t remove anything else. Continue reading