Walking and Driving on a Lazy Sunday

My husband went up to the farm this week to harvest the corn and hay. Rather than focus on the harvest like I did last year, I focused on the kids walking together. It was Sunday and although I love lessons at church, sometimes your just tired and the meetings seem long. This was one of those days. The kids and I were thrilled to go for a walk that afternoon. Later in the evening we met up with "DAD" just getting done with chopping the corn to silage. I begged him to take us for a drive, so we hopped in the truck and took a mountain pass up past the farm over to Marysville, UT. It was beautiful. We met up with a rattlesnake, took some lovely images, the kids played in the dirt (like always). My eight year old son fretted over the cliffs on one side of the truck, my daughter fell asleep and my husband and I got to visit an old bridge where we had a very memorable date, just before we were engaged. It was a good day. Thanks again for looking at my photographs!

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My Paradise - A slideshow of images at the Dairy Farm

I know I have said this before. I love my husband's families dairy farm. It is my inspirational, photographic outlet. 

There is always something creative and beautiful to photograph. When I go to visit, I don't case all the corn and hay fields. I generally stay on the main dirt road. Walking that mile and a half to two miles (between my in-laws home and the diary) with my children seems to inspire me EVERY time I go! It is beautiful, serene and peaceful a wonderland away from shopping malls, fast-food and crowded neighborhoods. Here is a slideshow of some of the images I have taken over the past couple of years. I hope you enjoy! :)

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Do you love brown? I do.

Without getting too personal, it's been a tough week for me emotionally and physically. My husband and children, have been wonderful through it all. They have made it easier.

We went up to the farm for 5 days to get away. The second day it snowed, SIX inches and then melted the next day. The dusty dirt became thick, slopping, brown mud. Not an easy thing to slop through while walking along the road, let alone working. But my in-laws kept going, like always, tending to the animals and the land, as if nothing could ever phase them.

I needed to keep my head up and look for the beauty in my own personal situation. So I picked up the camera and began to photograph and found beauty in the brown around me. Then, I came back home and decided to work on a few of the images, emphasizing the brown in the images with a little help from adobe. Brown really can be beautiful.

I am feeling better now. :)
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Fall at the farm...

I love harvest time at the farm. These images were taken this last fall 2010 where we were able to spend time with my husbands family cutting the corn crops for Silage. There was a nearby wildfire that raged on for a month. The air was thick with smoke and ash floating down out of the sky as if a dry, eery, early snow had arrived. As for the farmers, they continued on their work cutting corn and I was able to tag along and take some amazing photos. The images have a beautiful golden hazy cast to them.

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The ground is so uneven from the irrigation furrows, they need to plow a path so the dump truck can  drive on it without being jostled around too badly.

My son riding with his grandfather. 

Following the tractors so they will not run into the the fence lines.

Checking on the belts...

BELOW: I took this shot out the window of my car. It is beautiful. Its not often, I get "out of the car" shots that look this good. I am putting this one up in my house. 

Okay,  I am dying here. The smoke in the air created this beautiful, warm light. I used no fill flash, no adjustments on photoshop...just pure perfection. I love it when an impromptu photo sitting with my children presents itself. This one and the next few are for my wall.

Getting her toes dirty with daddy. I think it is a requisite while playing in the country.

Here are a few more images that created amazing shots from the smoke:

I went for a Sunday drive and came up with these three images. The smoke blankets the mountains and ALMOST made this area look as though we were on the great planes. 

Have you ever taken images of your surroundings when your atmosphere was transformed by the weather or the air conditions?