A Harvest of Beauty

 

Fields of Gold

 

Satin-soft Dawn

 

Five Birds

 

Sun Setting On A Way Of Life

 

There hasn't been livestock on most farms for 20 or 30 years, so the barns are left to crumble.  It's too expensive to repair them, especially since they only house raccoons and possums now.

Bless This Mess

 

Not the inside of my house.  Close, though.

Stoop-shouldered

 

Soaring Over The Ruins

 

New Life in an Old Setting

 

On A Cold Hill

 

Red, White and Blue

 

Tracery

 

Farm Dressed All In White

 

Golden Hour Down On The Farm

And A Deceptively Gentle Exit

Wizard of Oz

I think this is where the flying monkeys live.

Crystalline Barn

It's starting to heat up outside.  High humidity, the bane of my existence.  So I made a refreshing image by sandwiching this barn picture with one of the ice on my window pane.  It helps!  Until I go outside, of course.

The Pause Between Night And Day

Springtime Textures

Born Again Barn

I really (really really) like playing with Photoshop.  This barn has great morning light on it to begin with, but I couldn't help but exaggerate the textural quality by giving it a filter called posterize.  Posterization converts a continuous gradation of value (lightness or darkness) to several regions of fewer values, with abrupt changes from one value to the next.  Hence a "poster-like" effect.

It never hurts to have a reasonably good image to start with, but with special effects you can sometimes make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.  As someone who used to raise actual sows, this is just as much fun, and smells considerably better.