IDAHOME FLOUR

As are most photos, this one is best seen large.

David! You did good!!!

Thanks amigo.

Now this is a shot worthy of Dali or Magritte. Brilliant! The clouds add just the right whimsical touch to set off the white silo and its squat, dark companion building. One of my all time favorites.

High praise. I am honored.

truely one of you best! Nice job! wvmm

That's the nicest thing you've said to me in a long time. Could it be because I used a tripod?

...deligthful...when nice light meets land & clouds and an interesting building...you end up with a superb photo nicely composed...as I told you David I really enjoy your last postings (never mind I would tell you as I did in the past if have some complaint :-)...

Very nice, Dave. The nicely blue sky with the small puffy clouds give it a good zing. The top of the silo is just between the two puffs. Good framing. Cheers, Micheal

 

Thanks for the comments. Nature really helped me this day. I could not ask for a better placement of the clouds, and the light was super. So I had little to do but frame and click.

Dave, this is really good. I must confess that I find myself wishing it had a bit more room. It seems cramped to me, particularly at the top. Having said that, I know that sometimes there just isn't more room. In any event, it has a very real sense of place, and I like it.

 

I have to confess to a real ignorance of rural economy. What did/does this place do?

I'm not sure I know any more than you do. I presume that this is/was a wheat growing area, and that they stored it in this elevator for shipment to processors who turned the wheat into flour. I am only making that assumption based on the flour in the name. I think they were/are out of business.

wonderful light and color. i probably don't have to tell you i love the old signage!

Thanks. I think you have been gone, since I haven't heard a peep for awhile. Glad to see you back. Will go see what you've been doing ASA I can.

Let me be a curmudgeon for a moment, and suggest that, IMHO, the structures would look better a bit to the left in the frame.

I see your point, and that by doing that, the central tall edifice would not be so centered. Perhaps you are right, but, then again, you have trouble figuring out what is right side up on a no parking sign in the desert.

Excellent point. My lysdexia is only tervical, though.

There is something that reminds me on naive American paintings.

Thanks. Appreciate your taking the time to view this.

David, work and kids have taken up all of my time lately! i've been shooting, but no time to process or post, or visit PN. :-( my magazine goes to the printer next week, so i should be able to catch up after that.

Sounds like you're having way too much fun.

Beautiful, David. One of many great shots I missed while I was away. As Jack put it, there's something of Magritte about the way the clouds are distributed in the blue sky and about the pure pale light in which the scene is sunbathed. The composition is very interesting too. I like that large space you left on the left. David, I wanted to thank you very much for your understanding. I've had mixed feelings lately about whether I should stay or go...as you can tell, but I sincerely like your work as well as Jack, Kent, Laurent, Linda, Alex, and Matthias's and others, and it's always great pleasure to come and visit the portfolios of my favorite shooters.

Kindest regards,

Laurent.

Thank you so much for your exceedingly kind words. You have nothing to thank me for, but you are welcome anyway. As I told you before, my motives are purely selfish in that I enjoy seeing your work, and conversing with you. So, if you are not participating on Pnet, it is a personal loss to me. I, of course, do not wish for that to happen. But, knowing what a fine fellow you are, I do wish that you find peace and happiness. If that means we are deprived of your participation, then so be it. I do hope that no matter what, we will continue to have some contact, no matter how limited. Take care, Laurent.

Reminds me of what had to be the most tedious drive of my life, 600 miles of Northern Montana along Route 2 from Glacier Park and east. 10+ hours of nothing but open range with a cow or 2 every 4 miles and a grain elevator every 10. Distant hills on both sides of the road. Every 60 miles or so there would be a store or a restaurant. Not even trucks... trailers mostly were double decked on the railroad paralleling Route 2.

 

It's a lonely life up there and this shot reflects the starkness of it.

Thanks a lot for looking and leaving a comment. Something I've learned (and it's taken me way to long to get there) is that there is interesting stuff and great photos almost everywhere. That route you are talking about probably has hundreds of abandoned homesteads, and some small towns off the beaten path, that are priceless sources of images. Come spring, I'd love to be taking that road (and about a million others) if given the chance. Peace