Distant Farmyard

My farmland photographs wouldn't work so well in southern Minnesota. Besides the farmyard and the field, I see at least four distinct layers of trees in this pic. Minnesota's wide open spaces make this framing habit difficult.

But I'd find a way.

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My Nikon 1's my primary camera. But that comes at a cost.

It's worth comparing this photo with a somewhat-similar photo I took with the D300 a couple weeks earlier. While this farmyard photo's detailed enough for the resolution of even a fairly large computer screen, a close comparison shows the advantages of the fixed-focus lens on the D300 over the zoom on the V1. Both pix are sharp, but the bigger sensor and the physically larger lens on the D300 both make for a more detailed image. The big camera captures things the smaller camera simply cannot manage.

You can make a similar comparison between the sunflower photo I posted yesterday and a similar photo taken with the D300.

But it's not always important to capture those details. For this photograph, in this medium, the resolution of the Nikon 1 is sufficient. You've really got to know what photographs you plan to take, and what compromises you consider appropriate. I like today's photo enormously, and yesterday's sunflower was just gorgeous. Please forgive my humble opinion.

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A year ago I woke to a sky full of airliner con trails. We have airplanes overhead all the time. Judging from the maps, one end of the route is probably Minneapolis/St. Paul and the other might be NYC or Boston or Philly (or all three). O'Hare likely plays into this a bit, too, as does Detroit Metro.

Regardless, sometimes our sky is full of lines. (Today, for instance.) Thus the 366 Snaps photo.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 16
Title of "roll:" Some Mornings They Write Highways on My Sky
Other photos taken on 11/14/2012: I took a dozen or so pix of the late fall colors in our yard.