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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 3, 2022 4:44:06 GMT
UPDATE: Thursday_03-March-2022_10:31 PM I re-edited this image; I hope I improved it.This Barn goes with and is on the South(left) side of THIS two-story house on the West side of US Hwy 68, North of Mays Lick. The barn fronts on the old highway 68 which is now KY Hwy 2514. I bet it is a lot safer to be able to access one's home and property from a seldom-traveled old road than to fight the traffic on the new road. Westbound US Hwy 68 Mays Lick, Kentucky Mason County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 32' 36.30" North Latitude 83° 49' 29.71" West Longitude Elevation: 853' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle 
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Mar 4, 2022 4:02:32 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 4, 2022 4:02:32 GMT
These barns are the next place South of the two-story house and barn on the West side of US Hwy 68, North of Mays Lick. The barns front on the old highway 68 which is now KY Hwy 2514. I bet it is a lot safer to be able to access one's home and property from a seldom-traveled old road than to fight the traffic on the new road. Westbound US Hwy 68 Mays Lick, Kentucky Mason County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 32' 29.02" North Latitude 83° 49' 33.41" West Longitude Elevation: 861' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  |
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Mar 6, 2022 19:42:41 GMT
Post by BuckSkin on Mar 6, 2022 19:42:41 GMT
This barn is on the North side of US Hwy 68, just West of KY Hwy 648. It appears that they are adding a log pen structure to the side of the barn. If the leaves had been on the trees, this would not even be visible from the road. If you look close, you can see they have poured a slab and then built the log room on that; you can also see the shed posts and shed roof that will protect the logs from the weather. To the right of the right-most tree, you can see a Super Hero Booth; step inside one for a minute or more and you will come out a different person than you were before you went in; there is a side effect though; you will have a strong urge to burn your clothes and take a shower in bleach. Eastbound US Hwy 68 Carlisle, Kentucky Nicholas CountySunday_19-December-2021 38° 19' 37.65" North Latitude 84° 06' 29.42" West Longitude Elevation: 865' It will be worth your time to take a look at the Carlisle links as it is a beautiful old town with a lot of history. Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 6, 2022 22:40:33 GMT
This barn is on the South side of US Hwy 68, just East of the KY Hwy 36 intersection. In the September 2016 satellite view, this new stretch of US Hwy 68 does not yet exist; in fact, there is no evidence of preparation or construction, just uninterrupted fields. Eastbound US Hwy 68 Carlisle, Kentucky Nicholas CountySunday_19-December-2021 38° 19' 27.11" North Latitude 84° 05' 9.44" West Longitude Elevation: 825' Take a look at the Carlisle links as it is a beautiful old town with a lot of history. Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 7, 2022 5:21:43 GMT
This barn is on the East side of US Hwy 68, just South of the Stony Creek crossing. In the September 2016 satellite view, there is not a loose sheet of metal evident. Eastbound US Hwy 68 Carlisle, Kentucky Nicholas CountySunday_19-December-2021 38° 23' 39.31" North Latitude 84° 01' 4.71" West Longitude Elevation: 756' Carlisle is a beautiful old town with a lot of history. Barbara Kingsolver is a native of Carlisle. Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  |
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Post by jackscrap on Mar 7, 2022 5:37:03 GMT
Carlisle sounds like a great place to visit, plenty of photo opportunities. Barbara Kingsolver sounds very interesting too, looking for something different to read.
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 7, 2022 7:08:53 GMT
Carlisle sounds like a great place to visit I definitely intend to go there when we are not on a mission. We stayed with the new road and it bypasses the town. Millersburg is just South and West of Carlisle and it looks to be an interesting place as well. Between the two is KY Hwy 36 and it looks to be very old timey and twisting, with lots of old bridges; I intend to check it out as well. From my back porch to Carlisle is 125-miles. |
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Mar 25, 2022 9:25:51 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 25, 2022 9:25:51 GMT
This barn and silo are located on the East side of North US Hwy 127.
When I was a kid, this was a show place; the barn was neat as a pin and painted white with reddish-maroon trim; the roof was always shiny silver.
The highway in the foreground is North US Hwy 127; left is North to Dunnville(the gate capitol of the world) and points North, via Resurrection City; and, right is South to Wolf Creek Dam and beyond.
Russell County - Kentucky
37° 6' 2.887" North Parallel
85° 3' 32.572 West Meridian
Elevation = 1,040'
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Jun 6, 2022 6:39:24 GMT
Post by BuckSkin on Jun 6, 2022 6:39:24 GMT
Prairie Roof Barn
My Saturday afternoon spent at a wedding wasn't a total waste as I had my point-'n'-shoot Canon S90 and found this old barn to photograph.
The sun was super-bright and shining right toward me; but, as usual, it is either deal with the light or have no pictures.
This is on the Curtis / Bruce / Chris Wilson farm, behind the Hill and Valley Bed & Breakfast.
From KY Hwy 80, whether you access this via Wilson Road or the Eastern entrance at Keen Wilson Road, you must pass through a long narrow tunnel underneath the Cumberland Parkway.
The Wilson Road tunnel is the more picturesque of the two.
I would have taken pictures of the tunnels; but, it would have been a death defying feat with all the suicidal wedding goers flying through there; maybe I will get an opportunity some weekday when the traffic level is down to one or two pickup trucks and a couple farm tractors per day.
You can take Keen Wilson Road away from the Parkway, ford Russell Creek below Barney Burton's dairy, climb a very steep hill, and come out on KY Hwy 92 at Zion near the Gaddy-Shamrock quarry; it is very scenic; however, I don't recommend this if you don't have a sensible vehicle.
I have traveled that route eight and ten times per day, returning to the quarry in an empty dump-truck; it saves at least ten miles over going the paved route.
When you approach the tunnel, it looks like it is going to shave the top off the cab, but a miss is as good as a mile and you don't even flinch after the first couple trips through there; with 11-24 rubber, the tarp-roller clears by a good half-inch.
Wilson Road
Adair County - Kentucky
Saturday_04-June-2022     I hope you like it - comments appreciated.
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Post by hmca on Jun 6, 2022 13:06:47 GMT
Nice to see that you were able to find a photography bonus at the wedding, BuckSkin. I just commented on this post by Vicki. Aside from your song writing I think I have found another new project for you.......A Coloring Book of Kentucky Barns. Your little buddy might enjoy that. |
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Aug 20, 2022 7:11:10 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 20, 2022 7:11:10 GMT
UPDATE: I was not pleased with these images as originally posted, so I revisited them to see if I could improve them.
I decided to leave them as originally posted and add the new versions underneath them, sort of in Before and After fashion.
I hope I helped them.Monday_18-September-2017
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Parks Ridge - Eli Community - Russell County - Kentucky
37° 00' 56.42" North Parallel - 84° 59' 30.68" West Meridian
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We were chopping the silage corn that you see in the photos.
Although it doesn't look it, the ground was treacherously steep and slick as a wet fish.
I took these photos with a HP MP415 digital point-n-shoot.
These next two images were taken from the same spot two days earlier.
I included them to exhibit how much easier things are to see after a few rounds with a silage chopper.
Saturday_16-September-2017
In this next photo, look between the tractor and the standing corn and you can just make out an island of corn and tall grass and brush that we went around and left standing; that is a huge sink-hole that you could lose a semi-truck down in.
Hidden sink-holes like that are just one of the many dangers of custom farming in unfamiliar territory.
The corn was taller than the trucks and we couldn't see ten feet ahead of us; it would have been very easy to have driven into that big hole; it has happened several times before, often with catastrophic results.
Monday_18-September-2017
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Post by hmca on Aug 25, 2022 23:10:37 GMT
Comparing your before and after images above BuckSkin it seems to me that you may have taken some of the advice that was offered in this thread. I think you may have made some white balance adjustments among others. It seems the color may be cooler and perhaps more accurate. Am I close? And most importantly do you like them and feel that you have learned something useful? |
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Aug 26, 2022 1:10:04 GMT
Post by BuckSkin on Aug 26, 2022 1:10:04 GMT
Comparing your before and after images above BuckSkin it seems to me that you may have taken some of the advice that was offered in this thread. I think you may have made some white balance adjustments among others. It seems the color may be cooler and perhaps more accurate. Am I close? And most importantly do you like them and feel that you have learned something useful?
I am glad you think I improved upon them.
To be honest, even though they were jpegs (no RAW from that camera), I just ran them, the original originals, through DxO with the same recipe I use for everything else I edit and didn't change a thing; I just load them in DxO, click "Add Preset". and choose my usual preset.
I did use DxO's wonderful leveling/plumbing tool to stand the silo up perfectly straight as it had a slight lean in every photo.
The originals were my 2017 edits using Elements 7.
I may have opened a whole new can of worms as now I want to re-edit a ton of stuff from my pre-DxO days.
As for the leaning silo, and it was not leaning that much, drag-dropping the DxO versions on top of the unaltered originals makes it evident just how important it is to try to get things level and plumb before clicking the shutter.
If the originals were 8x10, the leveled versions lost half-an-inch on all sides, making that 8x10 become a 7x9.
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Aug 26, 2022 1:14:14 GMT
Post by hmca on Aug 26, 2022 1:14:14 GMT
Interesting...what did you use the first time?
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Aug 26, 2022 2:49:30 GMT
Post by BuckSkin on Aug 26, 2022 2:49:30 GMT
Interesting...what did you use the first time?
I used Elements 7.
The layer stack had a color-cast levels, then automatic levels, then Noise, then High Pass Sharpen. |
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