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Back in the early to mid 1900's progressive grain farms built this style of corncrib.This "thin" design was more efficient to store and handle corn picked on the cob.Later when threshers and combines began shelling the grain,these cribs became obsolete and because of their narrow design,hard to adapt for other uses such as machine storage.We had 2 on our farm back in the early '60s-they were taken down shortly after and replaced by more efficient,but much less interesting,round metal grain bins(there's one in the background here) that dot the rural landscape today...and sure enough this relic was full of corn cobs....
Efficiency doesn't always have the same character....
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Continuing my set of square crops - couple more to go, then on to something different - I found this shot two years ago while searching for migrating Sandhill Cranes. It had been a productive morning, so I didn't mind being distracted by this eye catching, dilapidated beauty.
It was actually not a barn, but an old shed, presumably once used for grain storage. Today metal bins are the norm. I didn't look inside, but those bolted-on pieces of wood and metal plates are probably connected to long steel rods that run through the interior of the structure and are affixed the same way on the opposite side. This was necessary because the pressure from a big load of grain would cause the wood planks to bow outward. An old prairie farmer made me aware of this practice years ago; often old seeder discs were used to anchor the metal rods.
That's the practical part. The aesthetic part, well, it's mostly intuitive, isn't it? You can't create art via logic; you have to feel it. The straight lines, the squares and rectangles that form the main shapes within the frame, these can produce a symmetry that doesn't appeal to me very much. But the peeling paint (texture and colour) and uneven distribution of other elements in the frame offset these geometric qualities, I think.
Photographed at the north end of Last Mountain Lake, near Govan, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Once known as the ‘Dolly Twins’ but today referred to as The Domes are rather four unusual grain storage domes at the Cooperative Bulk Handling (CBH) in Goomalling.
The concrete domes, created in 1994, can store 44,000 tonnes of grain. Each dome is 39.6m in diameter and 19.8m high, in a perfect half sphere. Walls are 350mm thick at the base graduated to 125mm at the top centre of the dome.
Gascoyne Murchison Outback Pathway Exploration July-August 2020 - - #GMOPE 20.
Vintage granaries along the Union Pacific Railroad line. No longer in use and replaced long ago by "modern" steel and concrete grain elevators. Soda Springs, Caribou County, Idaho. For the Smile on Saturday group, Topic: Made of Wood. Happy Saturday!
The Stick Shed, Murtoa (home of the Lizard) Constructed in 1941. Floor Area 1.6 Ha. 270x60m, approx 19m to ridge. 56 rows of 10 poles.Victorian Heritage Register, National Heritage List.
Ceased operation in 1989.
Steel greain bins sit in the sunlight ready for the fall harvest to store grains
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I had the Twirly Camera out for a spin in Dufur during July. I had just got it back from Precision Camera Works, where they replaced the gears that spin the turret, among other things. But, before I could scan the any of the negatives, my scanner started leaving lines in the scans. Strangely enough, the camera was leaving lines in the negatives. When the gears go bad, the turret hesitates, and causes areas of more density. Both the camera and the scanner had issues that caused the same thing. Whodathunkit? Both are fixed now. I had the scanner fixed at Portland Printer Place. Good people. They need your support.
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Grain storage along the Union Pacific Railroad line. Soda Springs, Caribou County, Idaho. Photographed in 665 Nanometer infrared and rendered in monochrome.
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Instantly recognisable and often erroneously called mushroom stones , Staddle stones (variations include steddle stones) have been used for centuries as the raised footings for granaries and tithe barns in order to prevent both damp and pesky rats and mice raiding the stores.
Generally found in the southern counties, Staddles can be found in a number of mediums, most commonly sandstone and granite, they will vary region by region and will these days be seen gracing rural driveways and gardens.
I have seen this type of granary in my area in Dorset (another southern county).
Long defunct feed and grain warehouse along the Union Pacific Railroad line, Downey, Idaho. Note the row of train car wheel trucks lower right.
This old Ford truck has hauled many loads of grain to the silos in the background . Here on the plateau in Washington State near Waterville there are many acres for land used for farming.
A decade or so ago, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) solicited viewer opinions to help them pick the "7 Wonders of Canada". They were deluged; we do appreciate our country. They wanted all regions represented, and some final selections were obvious: Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Old Québec City. I was happy with the choice that covered the three prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba): Prairie Skies. I could wax eloquent about this phenomenon, but my friend Pam, who lived here for five years - did so recently in an email to me, and I'm sure she won't mind if I quote her directly:
"The skies. They are alive everywhere … but on the prairie, you can see it. Sometimes I see shards of weird configurations and pile-ups and patterns here (on the west coast) — but only when I face such and such a direction from a particular angle. There is always an obstacle, interruption, the gaze brought down to earth.
"That said … there is a whole other quality to air masses pushing over vast stretches of land, different interactions … and being on land, it seems more intimate than the dramas that can play out over the water. On the prairie, turn into a human kite, feet firm, head in the clouds, take to the sky."
Reprocessed image - bigger and better! Not only are a lot of my favourite shots buried in my photostream, but they were processed on a much smaller monitor, to a much smaller upload size. No photo can really do justice to the vast scale of these prairie skies, but bigger is better.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2010 James R. Page - all rights reserved.