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One of the many things I enjoy about my work is the opportunity I have to travel around our footprint and work with some of the most talented and enjoyable people around.  Yesterday was such a day and I had a lunch meeting near Cedar Rapids.

When I do travel I always take my camera.  I rarely take images on the way to a meeting (because I’m normally running either right on time or a little late.)  On the way back I may “occasionally” let my eye wander, looking for something interesting to shoot.  🙂

I may have made some images of this barn before.  I’m not sure.  I just find it hard to pass up a nice barn with original wood and still has a shingled roof.  Speaking of barns, I’m not really sure what it is that fascinates me so much about them.  But given the opportunity I would take images of way more barns than I do.  I have to pace myself.  🙂

On the way back to the office coming into the small community of Wyoming I saw this wagon sitting abandoned in a field.  Something about it attracted my attention so I made a couple of images.

It looked better to me when I was trying to capture the image that I saw in my mind.  I’m not sure I was able to do that because it doesn’t do anything for me now.

I was shooting away looking for different angles when a car went by and honked several times.  Must have been someone who knows me and I can only imagine what they were thinking about me standing down in a ditch shooting away in a suit. 🙂

Lots of neat clouds in the sky on my drive home last evening.  I decided to go a different route because I wanted to shoot my favorite windmill against the cloudy sky.

I made an image of this wagon last Fall during harvest time.  It sits next to a corn field and it made a nice image.  This time I liked photographing it from a different side but it just didn’t look good in color.  The sky was blown out and I didn’t like some of the colors in the background.  So I tried it in black and white and knew right away it was the right treatment for this image.  Remember you can click on the image and see a full version of the picture.

I’ve shot this windmill so many times, I fully expect the farmer who owns it to some day invite me to supper.  🙂  It is also the windmill on the masthead of this blog.  It sits on a hillside so I can shoot it from a variety of angles.  I have to shoot looking West so depending on the time of the day I can get some cool sunsets, especially in the Fall and Spring.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed some of the farm scenery and a break from all the aviation related photography of late.  I do like airplanes though so I suspect you might be seeing more later.

Thanks for checking out the blog today.  I hope you have an enjoyable Thursday.  We are coming into one of the best times (at least in my mind) of the year.  I love the Fall and harvest time.  Be careful.