Barn

This is the old weathered barn on my mother's property in upstate New York. The rising sun cast shadows onto the morning mist.

Barn on a rainy day

This is the barn at the orchard on a raw rainy spring day. I think those boxes in front may be beehives. Taken with the ProHDR app, the photo was processed with CameraBag's Helga filter, which gave it just the right understated tone.

Worn

This barn with its worn paint and overgrown weeds is testimony to our town's agricultural past. Taken with the iPhone, the photo was edited primarily in CameraBag with adjustments made with PhotoForge and PhotoGene.

We were driving to dinner at local restaurant when I suddenly said to John, "Stop the car! Stop the car!" The light on this barn, with the shadows before it and the dark clouds behind it was stunning. I jumped out and ran out the slope to get this picture. (John is a most patient man.) Poster Edges with Palatte Knife play up the contrasts and textures.

There is no blure quite ike the one of a sunlit September sky in New England. And nothing sets it off like the red of a classic barn. Smudge Stick intensified the contrasts...not that they needed much!

I'm going to try to catch up by posting the photos I took while I was away--it'll take some time to do that, but it's like re-living the vacation!

JULY 4: This is the ancient barn on my mom's property in upstate NY, with an ever-growing beaver pond behind it. Perhaps I see it so frequently and have photographed it often, the picture looks rather routine to me. Cut-Out gave it a more basic graphic quality that I like.

This photo was just ached for filters. The stark colors and crisp lines were a great backdrop for all sorts of effects. In the end, I called for a family vote. We liked this one, which used Ink Outlines, because it played up those qualities, reducing it to its most striking elements.