Oct
21
2008

One Very Long Day!

I went to bed at about 11:30 last night and was awakened at 4:00 this morning by a husband with a rumbling stomach.  After tending to him, I began cleaning here and there around the house.  It is now almost 11:00 pm, and I am still awake! (miserably tired, but so wound up after watching the Sabres win a sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat game this evening!)

Our weather was quite the talk today, with snow flurries blowing throughtout the entire day!  I fiddled around with the Nikon for a bit, playing with some of the various editing capabilities.

I have thought about “collecting” photos of old barns and churches for some time,  and I played with one of the barn photos I really like.

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After trying cyan, sepia, and black and white, I settled on the sepia in a dark tone, as it just felt the best! I guess the stripe going up the center of the road and the “curve” sign are a bit contradictory to the “old-fashioned” feeling being portrayed. I could just tell everyone it is a study in contrasts!

Because of the bitter, blustery winds with driven rain and snow showers,  the birds were feeeding continuously at the feeder all day.  I have no idea what the speed was of the wind, but when I opened the door to step outside, the sound was similar to a freight train moving down the tracks!

I caught this tiny woodpecker clinging to the tree…no, my vision hasn’t gone bad, the bird was moving much faster than my camera could keep up!

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The weather forecast calls for a slight accumulation of snow by tomorrow morning.  We shall see!

3 Comments »

  • I’m not sure that I wouldn’t have done a little judicious cropping and deleting on the barn photograph – artistic license you know!

    It’s obviously that time of the year – see my posting later today!

    Comment | October 22, 2008
  • I love the barn photograph. Some of my favorite pictures are in sepia. Some day I will have a house where I can put a small gallery and I imagine filling it with sepia nature photographs.

    Comment | October 22, 2008
  • I love the barn photo. We think alike.. I’ve been thinking of collecting old barn photos too. They are a dieing image on our landscapes. I get so sad when I see one all run down. They need to be photographed before we loose them. They aren’t built anymore like they used to be! I’d love to do a coffee table book of just barns.

    Comment | October 23, 2008

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