Category: Farm Life
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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
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Chicken Feather
Our hens are molting right now. This means, among other things, that we are getting very few eggs and there are feathers everywhere. Prompt: Make a photograph of something that is soft, or at least that looks that way. Convince the viewer of the softness. Continue reading
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Sheep Food
I’m tired of food assignments! This hay is for the sheep. I’ve got a bunch of sold sheep that are going to be in the corral until the transporter arrives. This was the only different meal I prepared today. Prompt: Preparing or eating food is a rhythmic part of life. Make a photo of a… Continue reading