grain elevator

Winter Constant

Backlight, Barn, Canon 60D, Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 IS L Series Lens, Canon Camera, Canon Lens, Canon Live View, Farm, Farmhouse, Home, Homestead, Journaling, Light Intensity, Photoblog Intention, Photography & Conceptualizing Beauty, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Rail Yard, Sigma Lens - Wide Angle 10-20mm, Spring, Weather
Farm - Rimbey, Alberta 2

Farm – Rimbey, Alberta 2

Farm - Rimbey, Alberta

Farm – Rimbey, Alberta

Field Entrance - Woking, Alberta

Field Entrance – Woking, Alberta

Former Farm - Notikewan, Alberta

Former Farm – Notikewan, Alberta

Peace River - Dunvegan, Alberta 1

Peace River – Dunvegan, Alberta 1

Peace River - Dunvegan, Alberta 2

Peace River – Dunvegan, Alberta 2

Peace River - Dunvegan, Alberta 3

Peace River – Dunvegan, Alberta 3

Peace River - Dunvegan, Alberta 4

Peace River – Dunvegan, Alberta 4

Grain Elevator - Sexsmith, Alberta 1

Grain Elevator – Sexsmith, Alberta 1

Grain Elevator - Sexsmith, Alberta 2

Grain Elevator – Sexsmith, Alberta 2

In a spring that needs to take hold more firmly, winter drags on, a guest overstaying its welcome. Winter continues as constant in and around Alberta and features in photos – farms dusted with snow, grain elevators and Harvestor Silos providing colour against the snow, the Peace River melting through ice … covered with snow. Each are presented here.

Listening to – Francesca Battistelli’s ‘This is the Stuff’ and JJ Heller’s ‘What Love Really Means.’

Quote to Inspire – “The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.” – Richard Kalvar

Tasking New Purpose

Canon 30D, Canon Camera, Night, Project 365 - Photo-a-day, Still Life, Summer, Vehicle, Vehicle Restoration

1953 Ford F-100 - High Level, Alberta

Someone’s project, this mauve and mint green 1953 Ford F-100 resides in the industrial area lot across from the Viterra grain elevator, a vehicle waiting for its next drive, more utility upon pavement. The mood of this photograph attracts. Its subject waits upon an earthly creator with abundant resources to transform ‘what was’ into ‘what will be,’ a creator who will set new purpose for this vehicle – breathing life into it, again. What this vehicle will become depends upon the creative imagination of those who will bring restoration.

Listening to U2 sing about INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence in Gone, from Best of 1990-2000 [B-Sides]; then it’s Gillian Welch singing Revelator from her Time – The Revelator album; finally it is Dar Williams singing Mercy of the Fallen from her album The Beauty of the Rain.

Quote to Inspire – “Photography can only represent the present.  Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” – Bernice Abbott