Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Weeks 37 and 38...and the wagon is....

Whoops! I'm out of order...I forgot Week 36 was NO...I'll come back to that I guess. This 52 Week Photo post is short and sweet...I've been too busy to think much about my weekly themes. 


An OLD Grain Elevator...I'm not sure if it's even used anymore. 
1/320, f16, ISO 800 


A NEW Sunset. 
1/320 sec., f10, ISO 1600 


And if you are stopping by for the answer to yesterday's post. This wagon was used to haul water out to the steam engine on the farm....well, duh!!! 


Tuesday, August 7, 2012

August Storm - *WARNING* Pic Heavy

Friday night I was at a Pampered Chef party and when I stepped outside about 8:00 pm the sky was gorgeous with a coming summer storm. I rushed home grabbed my camera and the truck, because I can climb up on the cab of the truck and get a much better view, I rushed off on the dirt roads. 

Warning!! This post has about 21 pictures. They've been edited only slightly and are true to color. This really was how bright the colors were that night! 
















I rather think the tail light one is my favorite. 




Or maybe these sunflowers are my favorite! 




I've never been out in a sky before like this one. It was magnificent and I stayed out in it until I was soaked. This, the sky so vast and powerful, is what I love about Kansas. 

Saturday, March 24, 2012

We Have Water!!!

I've talked a lot about water and the worst drought Kansas has ever seen last year. I think over the winter a lot of people have been very anxious about what kind of weather spring would bring us because NO ONE wants to go through another summer like last year! 


Earlier this week, Tuesday and Wednesday we. had. rain.
In one day we had two inches of rain which is just about unheard of here! But no one was complaining about the cold and chill or all the water rushing down the streets. Every one in our area is so very very thankful for the moisture. I was even more so when I realized that there are parts of Kansas that are doing much better when it comes to moisture than we are. Last weekend when we went to Hays, although only 3 hours away, there was a definitely more green growth there than here. 


Thursday morning my boys found wets spots in our finished basement. 
Everyone has finished basements out here because, normally, it never rains enough to seep any moisture to the basement. Not like where I'm from in Indiana. Hoosiers build two story houses without basements while Kansans almost always have a single story house with a finished basement. But even a wet basement wasn't something that could make the rain unwelcome. 


All that standing water around town is gorgeous!! 
I know my Indiana family probably wouldn't say the same thing considering they've been battling puddles all winter but I haven't ever seen this much moisture in our town since we've lived here...and might not again. 


This weekend is supposed to be gorgeous, in the 80's and sunny, perfect weather to work in my garden. But I just checked my garden plot and it's still too wet to work in! Wonderful, wonderful moisture...stick around I'll wait to work in my garden...no arguments here! 

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Friday, November 4, 2011

Sunset over Nowhere


The sunset last week out in the middle of nowhere. 
Most of Kansas is the middle of nowhere :) 

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sunsets....

I haven't posted any landscapes lately and thought Monday night's sunset would be something nice for you to look at today. Enjoy!





And you can't have a blog about Kansas and post a sunset photo without the obligatory elevator photo! Ha, ha! 



Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Cultivator

I set off through the countryside around sunset last week and came upon a cultivator outside a farmer's machine shed. "What beautiful silhouettes!", I thought.

So I jumped out of the car and started snapping away...or tried to anyway.
My camera was set on manual; ISO 800, SS 1/80, F5.6
but the light kept tricking the camera and wanted to focus on the sunset rather than the cultivator. I moved the camera focus to manual but didn't really know what to do from there. I tried adjusting the lens to focus but it doesn't seem to help. I'm still learning.

I think it's kind of hard to tell in some of these photos whether it's in focus or not but this one definitely isn't.


Any suggestions out there from those camera people who know what they are doing? How do I focus on manual in low light? Did I just need a tripod?


Thursday, October 28, 2010

Wow! What a sunset!

Last week we had a storm move through in the afternoon, a rather rare event for this part of the country. After getting Yahoo settled into bed and before getting Yip and Yap down for the night, I glanced out the window and saw this.
Can you believe these colors?? I ran out to the middle of the street real quick and snapped a half dozen or so shots. If DR had been home I would have left bedtime for him and I would have taken off into the countryside.

No editing...this is what my sky looked like.
Yes, I've laid claim to it. The Kansas sky is now mine.



It had rained overnight too and was pretty overcast the next morning. Yahoo and I walked on down the road after the boys left for school and saw a quick moving fog roll in...just enough to hide the top of the elevator.



Photo comments and critiques always welcome.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Grain Elevator at night

Here's a pic I took about 9:30 at night of the elevator at the west edge of town.



Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Reflected Sun

I was taking a walk last night and just happened to walk past the shed and saw the sun reflected in the window. I thought the bird nest was a nice touch.


Thursday, May 13, 2010

Photo Thursday - Spring on the Prairie

Just a few of the things I love about spring in the country.


Dandelions....


Sunsets....


...and a full clothesline!
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