Category: Combine (Farming)
Posted on January 30, 2016
by Lumens Borealis
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The day held a meeting and rather than a team of colleagues going, I would attend the meeting alone. I took camera gear with me. I hoped that the day would yield photographs, that I would find myself within the situation of a photograph.… Continue Reading “Looking Up & Forward”
Category: Barn, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Farm, Home, Homestead, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Still Life, Vehicle, Vehicle Restoration, Weather, Winter
Posted on October 12, 2015
by Lumens Borealis
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Perhaps twenty years ago, Chris Short, an art specialist from Newfoundland, slowed the pace of my thought when she asserted that between High Level and Edmonton, Alberta (750km), an artist could easily spend as many as three days to gather and respond to terrain… Continue Reading “Treasure, In Return”
Category: Backlight, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Fall, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Journaling, Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Weather
Buttertown snow melts, revealing different finds among Fort Vermilion’s north settlement trees on a Saturday, one of the last grey few before the intensity of spring light warms and colours the world anew. Here, blurring elements in each image to explore the result. Quote… Continue Reading “Buttertown Snow”
Category: Canon Camera, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Farm, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Light Intensity, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Spring, Still Life, Vehicle, Weather
Posted on October 2, 2014
by Lumens Borealis
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On fields, rolling in their contour, somewhere between Sangudo and Whitecourt, Alberta, an International combine sits, no longer harvesting grain from broad swathed, corduroy rows; the combine is placed within a farmer’s field close to the highway to attract its sale – another farmer… Continue Reading “Swathed, Corduroy Rows”
Category: Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Farm, Flora, Journaling, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, SpringTags: Alberta, International, Whitecourt
Posted on October 11, 2013
by Lumens Borealis
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Remnants of spring, summer and autumn, a cluster of HDR photos populate my photo folder. Farm buildings, fields ripe with grain ready for harvest, trees with autumn leaves desaturating from green toward bright yellows and reds, summer cloudwork and a final shot of Edmonton… Continue Reading “Remnant Population”
Category: Barn, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Fall, Farm, Farmhouse, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Homestead, Journaling, Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, Summer, WeatherTags: Alberta, harvestor silos, Keg River
Posted on December 9, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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The back forty is a farming phrase taken to mean the untended area of a farm, land not in public view, land not regularly or productively used by its farmer. The back forty may be difficult to navigate with farm machinery. It may contain… Continue Reading “Upon that Unprofitable Land”
Category: Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Farm, Light Intensity, Lookback Photos - One Year Ago, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Weather, WinterTags: climate, nature
Posted on May 22, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Ray LaMontagne’s song ‘Beg, Steal or Borrow’ plays, a tune I’m drawn to lyrically and melodiously. It’s a tune that says as much about the creation of a song – “you beg, you steal, you borrow” – as it does about the act of… Continue Reading “Step Into Line”
Category: Barn, Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Combine (Farming), Farm, Farmhouse, Flora, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Prime Lens, Spring, Still LifeTags: boy inside the man, oh my sweet carolina, ray lamontagne, spring weather, tom cochrane
Posted on February 24, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Farms, farm buildings, farm equipment and the occasional treasure of a rusting relic have surfaced within this week’s compiling of photographs. Rather than let them fall into the discard pile it may be good to give them their due, cluster them into photo gallery… Continue Reading “Collected, Not Yet Discarded – Other Photographs from the Week”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Farm, Farmhouse, Home, Homestead, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Season, Still Life, Vehicle, Vehicle Restoration, WinterTags: car radio, farm buildings, hankies, red paint, straw hats
Posted on February 24, 2012
by Lumens Borealis
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Curiosity surrounds this image. A derelict farmhouse is at geometric center point for farm buildings and as many as four combines from the fifties and sixties – three on the left (one is hidden behind the darker one) and one on the right, in… Continue Reading “That Old A&W Shirt and A World Fed”
Category: Best Practices - Photography, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Combine (Farming), Farm, Farmhouse, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Home, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, WinterTags: blindman river, hereford cattle, mixed farming, rimbey alberta, wooded ravine, youthful cynicism
In My Back Pocket - Photography 