Canon EOS R5
R24-105mm F4L
F11 | 24mm | iso 800 | 1/50 - 1/400

This is an old barn in a field just off a rural 2 lane highway not too far from where I live. I've driven by this barn several times a month over the last several years and always thought it would make for a nice landscape photo location. I got up early this morning and headed out to grab a few sunrise photos. It was a very cold 18 degrees F with a significant wind chill, so I probably rushed through this session faster than I wanted. This is a 4 shot HDR with stops at 1/50, 1/100, 1/200 and 1/400 that were all combined and edited in Lightroom classic.

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Canon EOS R5
RF 24-105mm F4 L
F8 | 1/800 | 25mm | iso 100

Another shot from my recent outing into the cold morning to grab some sunrise photos. This is another three shot HDR so that I could capture the details in the foreground snow and also preserve those lovely clouds.

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Canon R5
RF 24-105mm F4 L
F4 | 1/125 | 50mm | iso 100

There’s something about an empty park bench, especially covered in snow.

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Canon EOS R5
RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
F/8 | 1/125 | ISO 200 | 31mm

We had a considerable amount of snow this week, so this morning I headed out early to capture a few sunrise photos. It took much longer than I had hoped for the clouds to break up, but overall it was a pretty good morning.
This is actually a merged HDR of four different exposures with the 1/125 exposure being the last image, to preserve the highlights in the sky as the rest of the scene was quite dark against the morning sky.

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And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"

-- so God made a Farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"

-- so God made a Farmer.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"

-- so God made a Farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy-two hours"

-- so God made a Farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place

-- so God made a Farmer.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."

It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"

-- so God made a Farmer.

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