Ohio Amish
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This was a conservative Amish home(I had been in it) until a schism forced the conservatives to migrate(no they aren't Trumpsters). They aren't supposed to vote anyway. This community was so isolated that they didn't see many newspapers. Open buggies and isolation limited exposure to the English.
A group of Amish men gather their hay the old fashion way!
Their religion does not permit them to operate the sophisticated equipment most farmers use. That said - several larger farms sub-contract their harvesting to commercial outfits in order to do a week's job in hours!
A slice of a quaint for a t Amish farm. Used some of my own textures like the peeling cracked paint along with Topaz restyle which was used to give the sky some warm color.
We went to the Amish last Saturday and this young man was bringing in a trailer load of strawberries from their fields.
On an Amish farm in Ohio, these horses tried to make it difficult for me to include them in this shot.
We made a daytrip to Kalona, Iowa last week-an area that has a significant Amish population. We like to go to visit the several Amish-run country stores there. And of course I like to make some photographs if possible while respecting their wishes not to have photographs made where individuals are recognizable. If there is any doubt I don't make the image. This opportunity presented itself as we were leaving one of the stores. I think it is one of my favorite images I've made lately. It perfectly captured the mood of the dreary, rainy day as some locals were coming to shop.
The Amish father was holding his younger daughter in watching the migration of a large group of snow geese in Middle Creek, Pennsylvania
A little juxtaposition with the motor bike riders catching up to the horse and buggy. What is interesting is the Amish male is wearing sunglasses like the road hogs!
Yesterday we rode over and bought more fresh picked strawberries from the Amish. The little children were hauling crates back-and-forth in their wagon from out in the fields.
I shot this at an auction in the Ohio Amish country. Post processing was done using Photoshop. From Flypaper Textures I used Boudins Tide, Breslau, and Sisley Sky. From 3 Lil’ Owls I used 210 Chalky Bits 2.
Photo taken near Armagh, (Indiana County), PA. Indiana County has a large Amish community that pursues a simpler lifestyle, operating farms and other businesses in ways that have changed little in the past century.
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I took this shot at an Amish toy shop on the back roads of the New York Amish country. I processed and textured it in Photoshop.
Peight Store Lane, Belleville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Some Amish communities use kick scooters instead of bicycles to limit travel distance, preserve community separation, and follow historical precedent. Scooters restrict how far and fast a person can travel from home and family, helping members stay close to the local community. Bicycles were historically viewed as expensive status symbols or tools that could connect youth too quickly to the outside modern world.
While traveling the back roads in the Bird in Hand, Pa area, I saw this little one room school house. You can see the school bell, the rope to pull the bell, white picket fence, playground equipment, and of course the stove pipe sticking out of roof.
With the sun behind the school gives the school a peaceful look.
Amish School House
Bird in Hand, Pa
August 11, 2016
This is a conservative or low Amish topless buggy clipping along in-2F temperatures. In this area there are two Amish settlements competing for souls and money. Conservative Amish don't allow tops on buggies which limits travel and marks a line of difference with the liberal Amish with their fancy warm buggies.... The conservative group is of southern Germany heritage and language. They have allowed fewer capitalist innovations involving technology and ways of making a living. The other group, after a schism, has embraced global capital flows of value and technology by relying on one of the big three Agricultural corporation to develop a vast system of feeder cattle factory farms. Large semi-open structures have been built to confine a large number of head in a small area (called a CAFO). (there are images of these structures in the Amish folder/album. These "liberal Amish" contract with the outside English people to house their cattle and to work for the Amish. Us "English" provide transportation and ability to use certain technologies that make these huge operations possible. Their wealth has swelled and they have put the money toward the building of large fancy homes that look like suburban houses. The low Amish require people to work on less capital intensive farms. They are not allowed to work in factories. They get by with labor intensive small scale agricultural practices and more humble or low in their consumption. Their homes are rag tag cobbled together structures that are "messy". The high Amish tear down old early 20th and late 19th Century homes to build fancy "McMansions". This leads to another plane of competition to "be in this world but not of this world" Being not of this world means being humble or plain. The liberal Amish think that the less technologically up to date Amish are being prideful and vain or showing off in trying to be "more Amish". The liberal or high churches wear brighter colorful clothes of pink or purple while the conservative churches wear black, dark blue or black. This visual boundary maintains a marriage and social barrier requiring endogamy. Flows of women and capital remain within each group ensuring wealth and social bonds remain within each group. There is a hot cold war between the two groups. The farm in the background is a large English family/corporate farm
Found in southern IA. Classic with rakes and other implements that are still used with horses. Hard to see in the distant barn is a buggy that could be horse driven.
There is a small tractor in the shed at right. They are allowed to use limited power equipment. But looking at the surround of this place there were no power lines to the barns and livestock areas.
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We went to Penn Yan, NY today. There is a large Amish population in that part of upstate, NY.
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I assure you this
There's no end to this confusion
If you let it wish you well
Soul to sell
Highest bidders, can't you tell what you're getting?
There is a light to all this darkness
I will tell you this
There's redemption in you asking them just why it is
Some answers are better left unspoken when you know you ain't getting any...
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I took this shot in September of 23. While the whole scene was beautiful I was particularly by the clothesline that ran from the house to the silo and back. We saw several such clotheslines during our trip to the Ohio Amish country. Placement on the map is just a guess as we were lost at the time and couldn’t get a signal on our phones.
I processed this in Photoshop using several textures including Lenabem-Anna J’s Texture 334.