The Feed Mill

A long lost friend from High School turned me on to this place, found it by chance while on the way to somewhere else. (And isn't that how it always happens?) She made her husband turn around and go back to get it with her cell phone camera. When she first described it I knew we'd hunt it up for ourselves at some point... but then she sent me her pic (at right), and I'm haunted by it ever since. None of these are ready for the gallery just yet - I believe we can do better next time out - but I thought it might be fun to give you an 'inside look' at the process we go through.

Below are 6 I'm reasonably pleased with from our first attempt at this amazing location, from 5 of the 23 shots from our first visit.....
( Select the image to see it enlarged. )

* Same as above, but with an HDR touch.

.... and here are a few from the other 18 that I initially dismissed for exposure issues, offered here just to show the potential this place holds.
(Now that I've post-processed them a bit, I actually kinda like them. That's the upside with a simple hdr retouch... perfect for places like this, where the image was too dark in some spots and blown out in others.)