That place is an endless trove of photo subjects. I also grew up on a farm,
in the 1930s, but it was much less mechanized.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 11:43 PM
Subject: [OM] Barn Details
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=6782
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> My Father-in-law passed away this week and the funeral was Saturday
> morning. After the activities, the family all returned to the farm to
> visit
> for a while. Many of us went out and toured the barns. He retired from
> intense farming about 25 years ago, and gave it up entirely about ten
> years
> ago after spending a number of years with under a hundred head.
>
> He died at the age of 88 and was a pioneer in several areas of
> agriculture.
> He was one of the first to adopt round bales and throughout his career
> maintained a near organic farming method, not necessarily because of
> high-mindedness, but because it made good economic sense for him. During
> the later years of raising cattle, they had actually gone vegitarian in
> their own diet. Yes, a vegitarian cattle farmer.
>
> The barns and such have fallen into disrepair over the past couple of
> decades, and have proven to be wonderful fodder for my cameras. For this
> collection of photographs I used the DMC-L1 set to in-camera jpeg. Other
> than an automated auto levels and resizing, these are as-is, straight out
> of camera. Warts and all. I will heavily process a few of them in the
> future, but not right now.
>
> Please enjoy.
>
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> Ken Norton
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