Figured we could use a thread for some photos. Seemed a bit slow. Post up some favorites.

Like em!

The old abandoned equipment in the background is perfect for my tastes..

Like the composition on the turkey.

Thanks. The old equipment was right next to where I shot the bird and it just seemed to fit the moment.

Nice pics. Not the best but my favorite pic.

Not taken with a real camera. I just like the lighting on this.

Cool shot. Sometimes trail camera shots are really memorable.

It almost looks like a painting.

very nice

Taken from my back door the other evening.



The Crazy Mtns. Yesterday

Great shot.

Another great shot.

Cool shot. I had never heard of the Crazy Mountains before....

If you are heading west on I-90, as you near Big Timber, you will swear you will run into them. They are directly in front of you.

I took the picture from the exit to Big Timber. It is about 80 miles west of Billings.

There are also many nice views of the Beartooth Mtns. on your left from about Billings on!

Rural landscapes

Keep em coming!!!

DiamondJim:
Any chance that doe had a run in with a big cat? Lower left hip.

Cut/scar on front quarter also

Up on the rims above Billings

Beautiful birds---not in a cage either!

Put this in the Big Game section yesterday. One of our back yard bucks Cookie nailed in the morning.


Stealing bitterbrush. Not bad when one can count whiskers.

I actually sent that picture to the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission. They said that is was a run in with a big cat. Tough old doe, I'd say.
That picture was in the early fall of 2014.

Cookie has some similar images of a pronghorn with leakage on both the left and right hip. I too suspected a big cat.

nice shots keep em coming

Really nice shot.

Definitely cats in that area....

Sunrise in the Crazies taken from North of Columbus on my morning walk (not this morning) !

Rooted through some of Cookie's ancient files. Cat encounter? Left and right sides of same animal.





Not the best images, especially the first, due to both heat waves and shading, but looks like something came close to making a successful grab on the hips.

Animal or barbed wire?

Looks more like an animal.....but I have heard barbed wire can be an issue.

Very nice. Where did you take that pic?

Local Bighorn on winter range up the Stillwater

That is a barn in rural Washington County, Nebraska

Finally got a full frame camera. Canon R6

Congrats on the Canon.

Good job and like the pup. Depth of field is a bitch (pun intended) though, and Cookie struggles with such mostly on her deer images. Eyes are great, but nose and antlers are a little blurry. Mostly a big lens and low light issue that's hard to overcome.

I assume spring in the air there? Have some swans and snow geese showing up, but not great numbers yet.

Yes, migration is in full swing. Lots of Canada geese, snow geese and sandhill cranes.

The shallow DOF is fun to play with but I usually shoot at wider apertures for sports and wildlife. If it gets dark and you need to be wide open it can get hard to get everything in focus. New camera seems to handle the higher ISO much better.

We have been trying to take one day a week to drive out in the country on roads not yet travelled. Looking at older buildings - Abandoned Alberta (FB site) as we both have ties back to farming and a person needs a break from the lockdowns. The majority of sites are from the late 1890's to early 1900's. Very distinctive changes in the building types in areas settled by Eastern Europeans vs those settled by Scandinavians at approximately the same period. Here are a few recent shots from this year.

Nice shots. I love seeing old barns in various stages of repair/disrepair.

Very nice, Hugh.

Fewer every year with lots turning to ashes when we get a landscape level wildfire.

Up here large older farms when sold off many times the older buildings are pushed up into burn piles. The connection to that piece of land is just not there with the new owners. Hopefully over time some can be saved.

I find the workmanship on these old structures incredible to think on for how they made, tools used, design, where the materials (logs) came from. Squares, strings, levels, hand saws, axes -- no power tools.

Some of these homes (grey 2 story below) are in aspen only areas so the logs were hauled in from quite a distance. Buildings at times started small based on what the man / men could build for that season (2nd picture) and then larger homes were built over time in new and better locations. I know where there is a very remote home built from field stone and will try to get back in there this summer. It was built and abandoned in a period of time less than 10 years. Very harsh conditions back then to make a living and raise a family. Injuries or illness --- who knows but the site was walked away from. Very good workmanship on the home so obviously a person that knew stone work.

All pictures are from roads and some at quite a distance as we do not tresspass.



This one has an interesting history as it was converted to a 2 story pig barn at some point in its past. The animal chute to the 2nd level is evident, same for the added wall vents and the larger central exhaust duct.

Lots of history in those old structures and lots of hard work too.

Hugh--great shots.

HughW: Great pics and thanks for capturing such treasures. We have a few such places in eastern Oregon, and yes, some of serious substance were built and abandoned within a decade. Seem to see more in the Palouse Prairie region often out in the middle of wheat fields. Likely substantially more folks around when they were trying to scratch out a living on a paltry 160 acre claim. Good scale for eastern bottomland with 30+ inches of precip and a perennial stream. Not so much out west with 12 inches of winter precip and no surface water.

Nice gobblers!!

Awesome landscape

Southeastern AZ

Cool birds. I would always worry that with those beaks, they would get a chunk of my finger as well!

Gobblers, mountain sky lines and the Az desert ---- nice. All stuff we missed this year. Great to see those even if it is through the lens of others.

Resting in Time

Nice Hugh, I love old buildings/barns.

I know I have improvements to make.

Duckster,

You have probably seen this one. West of Spalding on Hwy 91, past the Cedar River bridge about two miles.

I have seen that one but never with a camera handy...

Old grain bins.

Gadfry one could go nuts waiting to get to the end of the row.
No wonder they came up with GPS steering.

reminds me of plowing on a alfalfa ranch in Nevada back in the sixties. down and back was a days plow.

From my back door. Rio7

Sunrise, this morning. Rio7

I like this one.

Good idea....thanks for the thread and excellent pics!!

Daughter before Prom

They get old way too quick....

That's an amazing pic! I'd put that on the wall.......

I guess you shifted hands when her date came to pick her up.

Hard to shake the young mans hand with the shotgun in your hand.

Ya done good there Mom and Dad.

I just wore my Glock so I could keep both hands free!

Great pics posted!

Sunrise water tower

Bark pile out by our firewood shed.

That is a very cool shot!

Definitely a cool pic!

Sunrise after a good rain. Rio7

Casper, Just turned 30 yrs old, Happy B-Day Casper. Rio7

Nice shot.

Sandhills sunset

From my front door, Texas sunset. Rio7

Texas sunrise from the horse pasture, turning on the water. Rio7

Nice shots fellas.

Good ones, duck.

One of Cookie's targets on a recent camping trip. Pretty rare to catch one on land.

I’m damn sexy.....🦫🦫🦫🦫

I was expecting that!

Sorry this is probably the wrong place to ask but my picture files are to big to download here. Any pointers to remedy this? TIA

I use Smugmug and then can pick the size of the embedded photo.

We use Photoshop, Paint, Topaz, or our Canon digital camera software to downsize originals and convert the files to jpg formats. Makes uploading to the various server sites a much quicker deal as well. If one thinks of a digital image as a spread sheet with each block filled with color and intensity data for each pixel, today's huge images are a boatload of data. Cookie's images that I post here are about 90% smaller than her original Canon raw files coming up at about 1040 x 655.

The images I upload to Postimage are typically at a 1920 x 1200 resolution as that's the pixel count for my computer screen. Most PC screens have about 72 pixels per linear inch, and images exceeding that resolution are watered down to fit the display anyway. The CampFire software resizes those images further, probably to speed up data flow.

High resolution images mostly come into their own when being printed given that todays machines can handle 600+ pixels per linear inch.

Being old, I can recall early Windows days when an 800 X 640 image would take 5 minutes to render. We've come a long way.

I will sometimes do RAW but mostly JPEG and generally very little on the post-processing side of things. No patience for learning all the new skills, I guess.

R6 have the eye detection?

Good Dogs are common, Great Dogs are RARE. Rio7

Great photos, I love the dogs.. Awesome..

Yes, the R6 has eye detection for animals and people.

In the background....

Nice fireball!

A couple of bulls at GCNP last weekend.

Nice shots and they look to be well fed.

RR--very nice photos.

Some I have taken lately while getting our new log home built. All with just an iPhone.

Summer rains have made the grass green and two afternoons of heavy rain had water flowing over the normally dry falls at the head of Sycamore Canyon outside of Flagstaff.

RR--nice shot.

Thanks pal. I had gone out there last summer after a hard rain, but it was not enough make runoff to get the falls flowing. There were flash flood warnings the past two days, so I figured this morning there may be some water flowing still.

When I wanted to rent a photoshoot with a professional photographer, I saw a booth at Universal Studios photography with pictures like this. They were just as unparalleled. I wish I knew how to shoot with a camera like that, it would have been of some use to me. But I can draw and paint. That's good, too. I would like to know what mode similar photos can be shot on an iPhone since I do not have a professional camera. Can you advise something? I only have a dog and he can pose

Dingo: That's a for sure white man's fire! Should be visible to the space station and would heat my house for week.


From Cookie's recent trip.

Night time shot.
Moon leaking through the clouds.

My old pard.

Nice.

Thanks pal

Need to check in here more often -- great shots added. I will add a couple from a tour of backroads in central Alberta that we had not been through.

This home was in the middle of no-where way out on the Prairie --- nothing else around and quite a distance from the old railway line. Very prominent structure for its day



An old sod buster tractor sitting guard waiting to go again



The evening sunset on the drive back to our campsite. The song bird migration was underway and a large flock of something was headed south.

Same road -- Pictures are one year apart. Different moods of the photographer

HW--nice shots.

Dingo that is one cool old piece of equipment. Any idea what that flywheel used to drive?

Dingo that is one cool old piece of equipment. Any idea what that flywheel used to drive?

A few birds from this past summers outings

This will give you an idea..................................



Apart from threshing work, portable engines were used to drive corn-mills, centrifugal pumps, stone-crushers, dynamos, chaff-cutters, hay-balers and saw benches. They were even used to generate electricity for floodlighting at football matches, the first instance being at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1878.[5]

In general, the portable engine is hauled to the work area, often a farmyard or field, and a long drive belt is fitted between the engine's flywheel and the driving wheel of the equipment to be powered.

In a number of cases, rather than being towed from site-to-site, the portable engine was semi-permanently installed in a building as a stationary steam engine, although the wheels were not necessarily removed. In this configuration, they are generally called Semi-portable engines.

A more extreme use occurs where the engine is removed from the boiler and is re-used as a stationary engine. Often, the boiler is also re-used (without its wheels) to provide the steam. As of 2007, there are still examples of such dismantled portable engines working commercially in small rice mills in Burma[6] (and, no doubt, elsewhere too). Such examples are easy to identify due to the curved saddle, below the cylinder block, that was used to mount the engine to the boiler. Thousands of 1 horsepower portable engines were built in China, during the Great Leap Forward of 1958. Every village and peasant was encouraged to build a small iron smelter and produce pig iron. To power the blowers to sustain the retort temperatures, small straw burning engines were built. It was all to no effect as the end pig iron was of very poor quality for any use.

Bald eagle

Just put a bunch of Cookie's recent images up in the Hunter's Campfire realm. They seem to get a few more looks up there. Have a good one.

Link to recent pics.

On the watch

Great shots duckster. I really do like the feeling with this one.

A discussion just out our back door.

Didn't think the accompanying doe was that cute.

Took the pup out to do some training Christmas day......

Nebraska, Great looking pup, what breed? Rio7

Thanks RIO7, she's a GSP from Chris Riddle at 6R Kennels outside of Des Moines. My coworker has a GSP from there and said he was the best bird dog he'd ever owned so I made a few trips out to check out the kennel/dogs and pulled the trigger.

Nebraska, She looks to be a real good choice, keep us posted on how she does in the field. I'm looking. Rio7

Wiil do!

Thank you. Little lake in Saunders County, NE

Thanks for sharing !!!
Took a photography class in college, we only shot B&W and learned how to develop, etc.
This thread makes me really wish I'd stuck with it. Not sure why I didn't as I sure did enjoy it.
Probably had something to do with whiskey, weed and girls. ha

Thanks again for sharing! Awesome shots!

Just a pic of a couple of pieces of old farm equipment.

The old man and his tractor.

The tractor survived a barn fire couple of years ago.

'...it works fine, why do I need another one...'

He was fixing fence this past Monday................ he's 93...............

Awesome