Heavy Skies
These heavy clouds provided an interesting sky above this old barn, as if it was posing for a photo. So many trees have lost all their leaves.
Farmers are trying to get into the fields to harvest the crops before the next rains. This corn crop has been successfully harvested. It is a busy time of year in rural areas with a lot of farm equipment on the roads.
Shadow Photos Round 42- Shoe Shadows
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Oooo. I love that photograph of the old barn and the tree @melinda010100. It's very atmospheric.
Our trees aren't bare yet. 😊
Thanks. We still have some trees that are holding on to their leaves, the oak trees will for a while yet but there's an awful lot of them that are looking pretty bare!
almost the same as Indonesia, there are many tools available for agriculture.
The two big crops in my area are corn and soybeans. It is agribusiness rather than farming these days.
but in Aceh the area where I live is rice.
Yes. They do not grow rice here.
Yes. They do not grow rice here.
The two big crops in my area are corn and soybeans. It is big agribusiness rather than farming these days.
Looks like some horror movie
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That a very dramatic image of the barn with those roiling clouds.
Yep pretty busy here too with the farm vehicles on the roads.
amazing photo. i like it. Resteemed your post mam @insomniacsk
Thanks so much! I do appreciate it!
Qué. Bonito paisaje y q bueno que ya estén preparando las tierras para cultivar el maíz saludos
Thanks! This year's crop has just been harvested Now winter is beginning and they will have to wait until the snow melts before they can plant new corn!
woow what a stunning house, loook at that patina, weeelll used and old, yumulish dera :D
It is a small barn once used for milking a small herd of cows and storing bales of hay in the winter time for them to eat. Big agribusiness has taken over and there are very few small farms left here. So these old barns are no longer used. Most of them have been torn down.
Oh, over here we use the big house fro milking and such, this smll barns would for us have been for hay and shelter :) So there isent any support for small companys??? thats really bad to hear :(
Some of the big agribusiness operations are milking over 3000 cows a day I'm pretty sure that whoever has the most money wins.
i know, we have them huge companys here to BUT goverment will give fonds to small once so they can make a living :)
I really don't know how it all works here. I know there are government subsidies, and I think the big companies get them just as often as the small farmers do. It is kind of a crazy system. I remember when we were farming we got a check from the government every month for several thousand dollars for not growing wheat. We had never grown wheat, and we had no intentions of growing wheat, and we didn't even own the equipment that would have been needed to grow wheat. But we still got that government check for not growing it!
ok, soo they give to big companys to?? hm ... kind of defeat the purpus, IMHO....
LOL omg paied to NOT plant, heay it worked so, woohoo ;il guess?
The government and how they do things never makes much sense to me!
This house looks very old, the tree is like a miscarriage, is there another dry season, we pray that this year's harvest will overflow, thanks for sharing @melinda010100.
It is an old farm building once used for milking a small herd of cows and storing hay to feed the cows during the winter. All of our leaves fall off the trees in winter time. It is too cold. In springtime the trees will grow new leaves.
ooo yeah I just found out, but the roof has leaked, if it is in our place, there is no winter, there is summer, the leaves are all falling, but the farmers every year are farming, even though it's the dry season.
There is no farming here when there is snow on the ground. They have to wait until spring to plant more seeds. It is too cold for things to grow. It is so different from where you live.
I love those old barns. It's sad, in a way, to see them in such shape but they do make great photography subjects. I would want to go inside that one during the early morning to get sun shafts coming through the holes in the roof and siding. In that state, it might be a bit dangerious.
There are very few old barns left in this part of the state. More if you go a little further west but around here there are no more small dairy herds and big agribusiness has taken over most everything. Most of these old structures have been torn down, so I always try to get a photo when I find one. The one you posted reminded me that I had this one from last week. It would be great to go in there to take photos!
Ah, yes. Big corporate farming operations have also taken over a lot of land here in corn and soy country. Fortunately, they don't seem interested in the area along the river and a lot of the barns are still standing. The vast majority are in some state of decay and some have toppled completely, but they still make great subjects.
A friend of mine has been involved in the historical societies project the last couple years to do an inventory of all the barns in the next County over from me. They gathered all the data that they could about the structures and did a complete photo inventory, trying to save some of the history before it vanishes.
That sounds like a fun project! Are they having your friend speak with the owners to try and figure out what they know about the barns? The photography would be especially fun.
Well, unless you run into that guy. A fellow photographer here in southern MN got yelled at by grouchy farmer for pulling over and taking a photo of his barn. The thing is, he took the photo from the public road. He wasn't trespassing. Most farmers, at least in my experience, are great to chat with and proud of their operations and history.
My colleague got back in his car, after taking the photo anyway, and called the farmer an "old grouch." He's probably in his 70's, so I wonder if the farmer was any older than he was!
I believe they are using all sorts of resources to document everything that is known about the structures, including speaking with the owners. My friend has published several local history books that include many wonderful old photographs, so I'm pretty sure that they are gathering as many old photos from the families as they can, also. It must be a huge amount of information.
That grouchy old farmer must have really gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. I sure am glad that I don't have to live his life!
I've wanted to do something similar in southern Spain for years, but don't know how to go about getting funding for it. There are literally hundreds of castle ruins in the landscape and few have any sort of historical information available at the site. I would love to get theo photos of sites and either write or work with a writer to compile their histories. Another hurtle is that, with dyslexia and vision issues, reading has become very difficult and most of the information about these structures is likely to be found in church archives and the musty basements of libraries.
I got a good laugh at the elderly photographer calling the farmer an "old grouch." :-)
That would be so interesting to research the old castles in Spain. Are you proficient enough in the language that you could read the old documents?