Homestead 1 – Donnelly, Ab

Homestead 2 – Donnelly, Ab

Homestead 2 – Northern Lights County

Homestead 2 – Northern Lights County

Homestead 1 – Donnelly, Ab

Homestead 1 – Donnelly, Ab

Grain Sheds – Northern Lights County

Homestead 1 – Donnelly, Ab

Homestead 1 – Donnelly, Ab

Grain Sheds – Northern Lights County

The reason for travel found, I drove southward through Boreal Forest made farmland. Allowing my eye to look and see and using my camera, these are first images of farmsteads and homesteads, now derelict, that hold memories for families whose predecessors built them.  For travelers, though, along northern Alberta roads, they serve as mile markers, helping them gauge their progress toward a given destination.

There is a visual narrative to gather – those with a camera, curious with wonder, often stop and photograph. I am one of those. ‘Who lived and worked here?’ ‘How did weather shape Life through each season?’ ‘What were hard times like?’ ‘What were the good times?’ The story is there. With patient wandering, the ‘would-be’ photographer can unearth different parts of that story and make sense of them.

Listening to – #447 – Publish Your First Book, The Photowalk Podcast

Quotes to Inspire / Consider – ‘You give Life to what you give energy to.’ – Gary Williams / Neale James (via The Photowalk Podcast); ‘The energy of the mind is the essence of Life.’ – Aristotle