White Barn

I've been past this barn many times and always hoped for some kind of image but it's never seemed right until this day. The timing was perfect for the cross lighting and a little shadow. There is depth from front to rear and right to left on this long range shot. If I had the ultimate lens, maybe a 400 mm or better I could have zeroed in on the barn and not had to include the 2/3's of the photo being grass. That's OK and better. The barn is small, the grass is BIG. I think the story here is how the farmer decided to put the barn as far away from anything as possible. I wonder why?

Foggy Morning

I've made many images of this place and not all (very few) end up as something I want to look at later. I think I like the place better than it photographs, the two can sometimes be confused. It's a matter of being there at the right time, with the right stuff. This is an intersection of a few roads, I didn't pull off to far, just hopped out and started shooting for a while. The road and barn were as quiet as the air looked, and felt.

Red Barn Board

I wish this barn could stay like it is forever but it won't. I made images of the whole thing and they look pretty good but what I decided to go with today was the skin of it. The barn had many different types of siding, and this one had that melted vinyl siding look. This barn was old but the color was still vibrant. I thought throwing the power lines out of focus was appropriate since no power was being used. It reminds me of the skin of old heavily used hands.

Savoy Barn

I had stopped and turned around to make this image and that's when I noticed my previous post. On the way by I noticed the light and color of the siding and figured if I moved and turned around fast enough I might have a chance at something before I lost the light. My camera was not ready and I did a lot of fussing but finally got the shot. This has good cross lighting, longer shadows. Yesterdays image came from moving down the road about 100 yrds and shooting back over my shoulder. Back lit rather than side lit, all I had to do was manage the exposure. Two different barns not that far apart and two different looks. Good addition to my "Barns" series.

Yellow Stripes and Barn

These yellow stripes have no reason to be here, perfect for a picture. Most may know what these are for but if someone looked at this 200 years from now what would they think? I can only hope.

Gray Barn

If it weren't for the bank of weeds and grass, this would be a black and white image. The barn is aged gray in reality but this with the fog make me think of a distant BIG BARN. I could have crawled up the bank and lost the bank but I thought this would be the only thing to add foreground and depth. It's not just an image of a barn, but a barn in it's environment.

Red Barn

The only shot was through the trees, at least that's how I saw it. I kept moving to the right but there were to many open doorways and the message of color was lost (I did make an image over there, but it wasn't about the barn). In this, the shallow depth of field gives you nothing to focus on but the color. Who knows where the livestock is. I saw this as another Fall image of color, it just happens to be paint.

Conduit

I got out of the car to make another image and saw this. The conduit seemed odd to me being on the road side of the guard rail, but this is Western Mass. Seems like this composition is full of angles separated buy color and contrast. I forgot what image I made on the other side of the road, but it was probably a usual. Sometimes I enjoy looking at an image more than when it happened. Something tells me to shoot it, so I do.

Barn and Tree

This was a quiet, dull, wet day, and the Barn and Tree seemed to pop right out. The shrubbery on the right is perfect balance to the road on the left and it adds depth to the image. Shadows, shrubs, roads, secondary things, seem to help the main subjects of the image more interesting. Some of the places and things I make images of have so many looks to them. It's a matter of season, weather, time of day, all kinds of things. I wonder often about how many things I don't see.

Red Barn

I've watched for this barn on my trips to Keene as others probably have. Right on the road, big and red, you can't miss it. My shot came from where every shoots from. I haven't driven this route in a while so I could document the condition but I knew at the time it was going to lose it's shape fast. I wish it were a little more convenient. This area gets some pretty good weather so I can only image what images I've missed.

Old Barn

The bright sky was killing me so I positioned myself so I had as little as possible in view. This worked out because the spot chosen gave a natural vignette and showed the part of the barn that interested me in the first place. You can't tell by the landscape but I tilted the camera clockwise. I made the grounds level which added a little angle to the barn, and this is hard to notice unless your told, or know the barn. I like this as part of my "Barn" series.

Maine Barns

There's the side everyone is going to see, and then there's the side I'm going to photograph. I don't know if it's tradition or the lack of paint but you see this a lot if you work your way around some barns. The north side gets the left overs if there is any. It was a nice cool late spring day, and I think I captured it.

Birds and Barn

This barn/shed has been second fiddle to another subject I photograph from nearly the same spot but a different direction. I've noticed it for years but never thought I had an image I could feel good about. The fog helped me here in that it hides a tree line in the background and adds a bit of mystery. The birds were what inspired me to break a sweat and give it a try. They were in the tree just hanging out. Just before I did my thing, they went airborne (of course). Pan 2: Shoot Now! I see the birds as the part of the image that gives it life. Way more than I envisioned. Sometimes I just get lucky.

Broad Side Barn

Normally I would look for an angle to show the depth of the barn, maybe include another side, or just wait for another day with cross lighting. The lighting was flat, I wasn't excited about including more of the barn, and I was here. Had to try something. The light was diffused but it did have a little direction (the sun was more in front of me). Using the shallow depth of field took the edges off the grass and kept the image smooth in texture. This is a very dignified image of the broad side of the barn. I wonder if this is the one everyone's talking about hitting?

Barn in Snowfield

I watched and wondered what the rest of the barn was going to look when we saw all of it. I was already intrigued. Luckily I stopped to "try" something. It's a simple photograph. A lot of sky, a little bit of a big field covered in snow. I like the connection of the roof and field. You'd never see or do this image close to the barn. This is the view that makes this barn special.

112 Barn

This is one of those images that has a combination of things you normally wouldn't do. I used out dated film and showed part of the camera. The camera broke up the foreground and the film just seemed to yuck it up enough in the top of the frame. I chose the low angle for a few reasons. To show the dominance of the barn and to block out as much of the sky as I could.

Red Roof

Although this falls into my "Barn" series, the image was made with the roof in mind. When we came upon this sight, I kept trying to shoot barn when my head kept saying roof. We know and have seen red barns, but red roofs? And how often are you happy with a bright white sky! Luckily I smartened up and aimed up.

Barn

This is part of my on going series of Barns. I made this a project because “they don’t make barns the way they used to”, and the older ones have a lot of character. This image was made possible when a friend complained about some out-dated film they had. PERFECT! Without the tree, this shot doesn’t work. I wonder what the age difference is between the tree and the barn. Both seem dead, but they're still standing.