Little House In The Country

Another trip to Dan’s today afforded me another opportunity to brush up on my ‘rural landscape’ photography before the photo-shoot in KY that Dad and I are taking this fall.

Once again a faulty PC was the cause for the trip and as luck would have it, I had to reformat a 200GB hard drive. Plenty of time to snap some shots of the awesome puffy clouds that had been taunting me the whole way up to his house.

Dan was a bit surprised, I think, at how the last batch came out and he asked for some shots including the house. No problem-I love the way his house is laid out, so it was cool to shoot it.

Here’s the pick of the litter (or the pix of the litter, if you will).

A telephoto would have done this shot more justice. I’ll probably re-shoot this when I get one (or borrow one from Steve).

The road leading up to Dan’s house is framed by two Acorn trees (at least I think that’s what they were). And hey-I just read about using natural ‘frames’…yay me!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan’s got this wooden fence that I love to use to split the shot. It just gives it such a rustic vibe. I used it the last time I shot out there (and I think one of the later shots from today is a mimic of that shot last time).

 

 

 

The clouds were really drawn to Dan’s house today for some reason.

Here’s that fence again. I don’t think I had quite the same kinds of clouds in the last shot.

  There’s something I’ve always loved about driving down a ‘country road’. I guess it goes back to the trips to KY to my mamaw and papaw’s farm. The road, well driveway, to Dan’s house reminds me of that (only shorter).

In my haste to get these shots, I scared off a Monarch butterfly. THAT would have been a cool shot. Ah well, maybe next time. Still, I’m happy with how these came out.

I love the sense of scale on this one. Dan’s house is pretty huge…but this cloud that was parked right in front of it was a monster! It’s like you could have taken a running jump off of the roof and landed in the clouds (kids, don’t try that at home).

There’s that fence again. I love that fence. I bet I could put a run together of just different kinds of fences. That might be something to put in the idea bin.

And with that, I leave you to your Sunday (or, the start of your awesome week!).

-ATS