More Barns

Continuing our country drive, we passed farm after farm.  Barns seem to be a winter photo target for me, and they're usually back far enough from the road that the new camera can get a clear focus even though we're moving.  I'm really pleased with the focusing ability it has.

A lot of these are shot facing west, partly into the sun, so the barns themselves look dark.  I can lighten them up but then you lose the bright blue sky.  Did you notice the second big barn behind the trees toward the right?

This has long been one of my favourite, with the giant Canadian flag painted on the barn roof.

And this illustrates the cropping I can do with shots from this camera - the same photo cropped to a tiny little square around the barn.  Look at how clearly the individual trees show up.

Another of the old schoolhouses that dot the countryside, often with their belltower and sometimes the original bell like this one.

One of my favourites because buried under that snowbank is a beautiful old drystone fence. that extends all the way across the front of the farm..

Here it is, in the summer several years ago.

I find it's hard to photograph a valley we're driving through and show the feeling of depth that you get in the car.  There are two big hills we go up on this road, and looking ahead is one of them.  Notice the big snowbank on the west side of the road only, because that's the side the snow drifts from.

I found it was fun trying to crop these photos both to get a closer view of the barns and to level the horizon while making an interesting picture.  I could have got quite close pictures of the barns, but these show the landscape just as you'd view it from the car driving by.  I think keeping the fences in front and showing a wider view than just the barn makes for a more interesting picture.  These are still cropped quite a bit.

This is the last barn before we turn west south of Walters Falls.  This farm, which has no house left,  is used as a community pasture when farmers need extra during a dry year.

Still lots more barns to go, but there is a great view of the bay at the end!