Everybody needs a hobby, and in my case, one of mine is that I like to photograph barns. As the Colorado landscape becomes ever more urbanized it’s become a challenge to search of old farm structures. If you keep your eyes open you can find one like the below that are closer to home.

We all have cars that we’ve previously owned and loved but we can’t always remember why we sold them. Today is an exception; I know why I sold it. It’s the latest in my  #wheelswednesday series of posts about some of the interesting cars I’ve I’ve owned. In this case, it’s my (former) 1971 Porsche 914-4 that I bought brand new, back in the day.

I photographed this area outside a tea house in Japan where a group of us had just had a delightful dinner. The camera used was a Canon Digital Rebel and an EF-S 18-55mm f/4-5.6 IS STM lens (at 18mm) with an exposure of 0.3 sec at f/3.5 and ISO 1600 and a minus two-thirds stop exposure compensation.

I’ve often written about my self-assignment to photograph barns all across the state of Colorado and while I haven’t done much of that lately—the weather this month has been cold and snow, more than normal— I still enjoy photographing farms, especially in black and white.