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The Bomba Bros. Farm, Seymour CT (a must read!)
The Bomba Bros. Farm 79 Great Hill Rd, Seymour, CT 06483 This article will take you on a short snippet of a family’s century long journey. What you will read encapsulates why I’ve spent years traveling around Southern CT photographing barns and farms. To me it represents a simpler time, a less cluttered time. A time when the work at…
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Done for the day in Shelton.
The sunsets on another day of farming in the country side of Shelton CT. The hay conveyor sits idol as daylight fades. These two barns are in pretty good condition. Photographed with a Nikon D7100 and a Tokina AT-X-11-20 F2.8 Pro DX at 16 mm (35 mm equiv. = 24 mm). 1/80th, f11, ISO 100, Aperture Priority.
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The silo stands majestically through the trees.
I’m standing in the center of Birdseye Rd to take this shot. It is a very rural, infrequently traveled road on the outskirts of Shelton CT. If it wasn’t for my reflective vest you’d have difficulty seeing me due to all the shade the surrounding tree’s provided. I see a pickup truck slowly approaching me. Sure enough it was the…
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Rooster Rise Farm, Berlin CT
Looks like this beautiful large aging red barn, situated on the Rooster Rise Farm, has weathered many a storm and is still proudly standing. It has a very grand design and a thing of beauty in the countryside of Berlin, CT. I’m not from Berlin so I don’t know exactly what they farm at the Rooster Rise Farm. I didn’t…
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The old Greenbacker Dairy barn?
This is a very attractive old barn whose silo’s peek out of the top right corner on Murdock Ave., in Meriden CT. Across the street sits a building that once housed the Greenbacker farm dairy store. As a kid in the 1960’s my parents would bring me here for delicious ice cream. It was always a treat to visit the…
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Setting sun on a beautifully aged Meriden barn.
I had my list of barns to find this day and when I came upon this one it did not disappoint. Not only had it aged beautifully but, typically, any barn scene with majestic silos will usually shine in an image. Just on the other side of the barn, (out of picture), were about a half dozen dairy cows in…
