Arkansas
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Abandoned farm house, Arkansas…
Red barn, green fields, blue sky. Found along the back roads of Arkansas…
Abandoned farmhouse found along the back roads of Arkansas on a rainy day…
Abandoned house found on a forest walk in Arkansas…
I usually do the abandoned buildings in black and white, but this one wanted to be in color…
Just before sunrise, Coon Lake, Arkansas…
It’s a barn. It’s red. It’s a red barn. In Arkansas. Thought it looked nice. Took some photos. After taking the photos I said “Hi” to some nearby cows. Offered them some beef jerky. They weren’t interested. Not the first time I have tried to get a cow to eat beef jerky. I know I am going to hell for that. Straight to hell. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Prints and licenses are available for this photo.
This house at the end of an Arkansas country road is at the end of its road through life…
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? A plane? A sky-mushroom???
Just a vertical panorama – 7 frames stacked on top of each other covering about 100 degrees of elevation.
When you first stitch a set of panorama images together you can get some strange shapes and distortion. I then use several methods to adjust the cropping and geometry to create a “normal” looking panorama. But, in this case, I thought the uncorrected view looked pretty cool and left it as-is.
I present to you the somewhat warped sky-mushroom view of clouds and sun over the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas on a summer afternoon.
Found along the back roads of Arkansas. A a sculpture of a motorcycle and a sign that tells the story. This is why I explore the out of the way places – you never know what you will find…
The sign is missing some paint but this is my best reconstruction of what it says:
“In 1869 this ‘hog’ was built by Almond grandfather of William. It traversed the Santa Fe trail in 1869, carrying … between St. Louis and Bentsford in Colorado. It was reported that (Chapel Bent?) broke his leg above the knee while riding this bike when he crashed into a big cottonwood tree. Next year General Custer is said to have killed the last remaining buffalo in Kansas, south of Dodge City when he ran over (it?) while riding this hog.
At the 1893 Chicago World Fair this bike broke the land speed record of 42.5 miles per hour.
It was overhauled in 1914 and General Pershing used it in (the war?) with Mexico. It is said that Pancho Villa dumped (a?) bucket of nails in the road 2 miles north of Nogales trying to blow out the tires on this motorcycle.
At the end of WW II it is said that this bike (carried?) the ‘Little Boy’ from Los Alamos to (the?) Airfield (where?) the Enola Gay was without more powerful (motors?) was (unreadable beyond this point)”
Mist rises over a still Coon Lake at sunrise in Arkansas.
Exploring the twisty mountain roads of Arkansas on a summer afternoon…
