PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL - Slowly the old dairy farms fall silent. Many of them then simply fall. Every dairy farmer talks about how hard it is to turn a profit, but as the dairy farms disappear, many find new life as horse farms. From the outside this hay barn looks like the old dairy barns on steroids. Nearby the owner is restoring the old barns, but this new barn dwarfs them.
Cows are always grazing, always processing food in their four stomachs. Horses thrive on a more finely tuned feed, they are choosier, and the horses that will be raised on this new farm have the finest building on the property as their pantry.
Sometimes the things that balance a shot and make it work are deceptively simple. I returned when the hay wagon was moved and more hay had been added on the left, and there was no shot at all.
6 comments:
This totally took my breath away, Ted, when I opened it up on the big screen. The wide angle, the symmetry, the light. It's magnificent.
Thank you, Ginnie. In truth, I never expected to find the day's photograph here. I had spent the previous two hours looking for shots among the old barns.
I like this photo! It's heartwarming!
Thanks for visiting, Tim. I fear my blog has as many haunted photos as heartwarming ones.
Amazing! What a place, what a shot...
It is certainly not what one expects as a barn where having unobstructed floor space is not usually much advantage.
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