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Taken at the Gordonville Mud Sale. Mud sales are auctions to benefit volunteer fire companies in Lancaster County.
Lancaster County is home to a large Amish population, and mud sales are one of the few places where the Amish mix with "English" (i.e., non-Amish) folks. The Old Order Amish are fascinating folks, who live in close-knit communities and avoid many modern technologies, including cars and most uses of electricity. You can also easily recognize them by their dress and especially the signature hats.
Mud sales offer a way to see - and touch - many technologies they do use, such as horse drawn buggies, plows, and other agricultural machinery. Moreover, at mud sales the Amish are said to tolerate some discreet photography, to which they are normally very much opposed.
I don't think the auctioneer is Amish, and certainly not Old Order. But he blends in quite well.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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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We went to Penn Yan, NY today. There is a large Amish population in that part of upstate, NY.
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.
The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships, closely related to but distinct from Mennonite churches, with whom they share Swiss Anabaptist origins. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann.[2] Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.
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
My sister took this same picture. Hers will be a lot better, she has a Nikon, I have an iPhone. I had to edit this one for many many reason and I'm still not 100% sure that I'm satisfied.
I found the scooter before I met the child who owned it...a perfectly charming 9-year old boy who asked me if my grandchildren had scooters, too. I didn't tell him that they weren't "in style" in the English world of today.
There's a conclusion to my illusion
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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On one of our extremely hot and humid days, our Amish friends stopped to water and cool off their overheated horse. They eventually decided not to tax the horse further, hence young man pulling buggy the 1/4 mile home--mostly downhill. The person in the buggy is a 5 year old child getting a free ride.
I like the way even behind the barn is clean. Usually you would see piles of manure, tractors, wagons, and other farm machinery.
Amish Farm
8/10/2016
I just grabbed this quick with my phone. Our Amish neighbors do not like photos of their faces because of their religion so no faces here!! But the three little guys in the back of the wagon were so cute, I had to get a snap.