Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: barns

Most days I got the 366 Snaps photo done early, and only shot a few pictures. A year ago it didn't work like that. I had an idea for the day 300 photograph for 366 Snaps. I wanted to do a selfie featuring my D300. But I didn't get an acceptable photo. So I shot a few pix of a blue jay , and one or two of the neighbor's cat on the birdbath. Then I hit the road and wandered around the area, photographing barns and houses. These barns are on St. Joe Highway but were photographed from Cochran Road. The house on the corner, which doesn't show in this pic, would burn down a few weeks later. As I said in the caption to that photo, I was hoping the fire was one of these structures. No such luck. ========== The driveway in the 366 Snaps photo is down M-43 a bit, and leads to an attractive farmyard in the middle of a field. In the photo the field's covered with corn stubble; today that same field's all winter wheat, and the field seems a large extension of the farmyard. A neat effect. ========== This photograph is a non-outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 47 Title of " roll :" Birds & Barns Other photos taken on 10/26/2012: none.

Two versions of the same photo for today's outtakes. This is my preferred version, but the JPG conversion does bad things to that sky, even if I don't sharpen the photo with unsharp mask. I got the photo-a-day pix in fairly early a year ago. I didn't really have anything in mind, just "wander around the local farms and photograph something." By this point in the year, that was pretty much my default method when I didn't have a specific photograph planned. This is one of my favorite local farms. A few days earlier I'd taken a similarly-framed photo, but before the soybeans were harvested. I posted that last week . In monochrome, with a wider perspective, there's a stark look to the scene that the earlier photo doesn't have. ========== I also posted two versions of the 366 Snaps shot. Since the color version offers an explanation I don't see any need to repeat that. ========== This photograph is a non-outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 23 Title of " roll :" Around Roxand Other photos taken on 10/20/2012: I shot nearly 50 early-morning pix of birds at the feeders. None seemed worth publishing.

A second crop of the day's outtake, with most of the sky removed. Explanation here . This version shows the strength of the Sigma 50mm as a general-purpose lens. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for October 20 .

A nice farmyard, three or four miles from my house. I've mentioned before I could likely do 365 Local Barns without repeating. ========== Stir crazy! Eventually you grow weary of photographing the house, the yard, and the village green. So I climbed in the car and wandered the nearby backroads. Where I discovered someone had installed a tall radio tower since I'd last looked (not pictured--sorry.) I've since learned that it is part of an effort to build a wind farm west of Lansing. It seems the folks making the proposal were/are studying nearby wind patterns. At the time, though, the tower seemed pretty mysterious, out in the middle of a field and nowhere near a business. (FWIW, the wind farmers now seem to have moved their efforts a bit north from here, though the tower remains. We'll eventually see how things work out.) For 366 Snaps I posted a photo of a local field.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 9 Title of " roll :" Roxand Other photos taken on 4/25/2012: The Nikon 1 took 61 shots this day, mostly for the daily flower census.

These are couple miles more or less straight south from Mulliken. ========== Last February 18 I headed down Mulliken Road in an effort to capture the rising sun in black & white. The insurance shots--houses and farmyards, all of 'em--were of places that could be said to be in Hoytville. Having made a photographic excursion the day before, I stayed close to home for this day's photos. There's not much in Hoytville. And not much to Hoytville, for that matter. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 16 Title of " roll :" Morning Sky Other photos taken on 2/18/2012: none.

'Spect I could do a 365 project of local barns without repeating m'self. This barn and shed (actually sheds) lived on the edge of Grand Ledge. I'd post a similar image as my March 5 project photo and call it "The End is Near"--which proved prophetic, as my July 30 project shot shows. ========== Shot a few photographs around Mulliken last February 3, then took my camera into Grand Ledge as I picked up a month's meds. Almost every shot was a rehearsal for something I'd post later. But I had the still-unfamiliar camera (well, phone) set wrong, somehow, and overexposed most of them. This was the day I decided to resume my normal photo-processing workflow for most of my photographs. Doing so required finding a way to move the photographs from the Bionic to my laptop. Since I really didn't want to involve an unnecessary cable, I figured to make an FTP connection work between two devices on our WiFi net. The solution I'd settle on was the SwiFTP Android app--it's an FTP server--but that took a few days to find. Don't recall the name of the app I used on 2/3/2012, but it was clear the user interface designer didn't understand that the screen needed to be readable. (Not that anyone really cares, but on the Mac I've been using Transmit for many years.) ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 12 Title of " roll :" Mulliken and Grand Ledge Other photos taken on 2/3/2012: I used the D300 to shoot 25 pix supporting eBay auctions, but we've agreed not to count those. I also used my new FTP solution to move 7 photographs from my Galaxy Tab to the Mac, but those were "old" photos.

Over the course of the year I probably photographed every halfway interesting structure between Mulliken and Grand Ledge. These sheds are about midway between the two towns, and a constant photographic temptation. ========== Never underestimate the value of good light. Last January 18, nearly every photo I took was excellent. Most photographers work within a limited geography. I think of mine as more-or-less concentric areas: * Within the house. * Within the yard. * Within the Village of Mulliken. * The nearby farm country. * Grand Ledge and Portland. * Other local small towns. * Lansing. * Weekends. * Vacations. Since I made a lot of Kalamazoo trips over the year that city and the routes I took to get there became another set of subjects, but normally they're rather like weekend shots. This isn't the only way I divide my photographic universe. I'll likely discuss this again. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 22 Title of " roll :" Mostly GL Other photos taken on 1/18/2012: none.

Bought my breakfast at Sophia's in Grand Ledge a year ago, with a vague plan to get a photo on my way home. Took a few pics at the island park, most of which I probably didn't intend as black & whites , then headed home. These barns--one's actually a collapsed corn crib, I think--are close to Grand Ledge. In fact, I've posted a photo of them before , some years back. I imagine there used to be a home at this location, but the farmer now lives across the street in a very attractive ranch house. But I didn't use any of the GL pix. Since Joan and I are serious readers, our upstairs room is full of books and magazines. The house is small, so I sell on eBay and Amazon just to clear room on our shelves. The photo I posted to 366 Snaps documented the sales prep effort. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 26 (but see my comments about Second Island, above) Title of " roll :" GL & around home Other photos taken on 1/9/2012: 6 color photos for the auction using the D300.

This farm's near Grand Ledge on M-43. Somehow I've never taken a photo I really liked of these buildings. Last January 3 I wandered into GL on an errand, and nearly every photo I shot that day was taken during that trip. They were, on the whole, just awful. Some days are photographic disasters. Y' get color today because this photo doesn't work well in monochrome. ========== The project photo was the first photo I posted with the to-be-recurring trellis theme, although our trellis isn't actually shown (and, as we've seen, I'd already taken at least one earlier trellis pic). I imagine I'll have more to say about this later. This was the day I started thinking of doing a photo-a-day, by the way. If you read the tags I put on the next few project pics, you'll see I was skeptical about my ability to follow through. ========== The Sony DSC-H55 actually shoots only in color. While this may seem to handicap a monochrome photographer, it's not significantly different from shooting black & white pics with a DSLR (or any film camera, for that matter). You do see the potential-photograph in color, but a mental translation makes appropriate adjustments. Then you use software to make similar adjustments on the computer. Although it didn't work out for this specific photo, I've rarely found it to be a problem. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 15 (mostly terrible) Title of "roll:" Miscellany Other photos taken on 1/3/2012: none