Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: smoke

Many of the local grain elevators have closed down in the past few years . To all appearances my neighbor farmers have moved their business to this operation, or to ADM's north of Grand Ledge. By prairie standards the Woodbury elevator's not a large operation. Around here it's pretty impressive. ========== Had a couple specific photographs in mind for last Halloween's 366 Snaps pic, one of which was this one. But there was a larger purpose, too. This was a scouting trip, looking for photographs "beyond Sebewa." I took lots of photographs on this drive, of buildings and farmland and details and landscapes. Many are oddly composed, but most are interesting regardless. In the end, I posted a Halloween pic to 366 Snaps. It was taken very near where I took this photo. A fun photo excursion, all in all. ========== Obviously I'm discussing personal preferences in this section. Reasonable people certainly disagree with me about this. So be it. More tomorrow , I expect. When I bought the Sigma lens I had a notion that I'd convert to the "ideal" of carrying a collection of fixed-focus lenses with my D70. When I bought the D300 I gave away the D70 and my only remaining zoom, which left me with this lens and the 300 mm. That's not a good set. But I figured I'd fix it eventually. As things worked out my next purchase was the 80-200, then about a year later I added the 16-85. Those two convinced me not to pursue the set-of-primes solution; they meet most of my needs. But gosh these pix show why you'd want to shoot exclusively with prime lenses. This is a terrific piece of glass. As I've noted, on November 1 of last year I listed the Sigma 50 mm for sale on Amazon. It sold almost immediately, and I recovered most of the purchase price. Mostly I don't miss it. ========== This photograph is an outtake--well, an alternate crop--from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 65 Title of " roll :" Sebewa Loop Other photos taken on 10/31/2012: none.