#1 Meal
“#1 Meal Load Out” sounds like it might be some sort of express line at McDonald’s. This shot was taken at Pyco Industries, a cottonseed oil mill, and it turns out that cottonseed meal is a by-product of cottonseed oil processing. It’s used as a nutritional ingredient* in cattle feed, so I guess there IS a connection with McDonald’s, after all.
Oh, and those clouds? In the past four years or so that I’ve been relatively serious about photography, this part of Texas has been in a drought. So, in spite of all my practice with taking pictures of all kinds of things, I never have learned how to photograph clouds: there haven’t been enough of them around to practice on. (Thanks – I feel better having gotten that off my chest.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.28.2013
* I know – it doesn’t sound that nutritional to me, either. But that’s what Pyco says on their website.
Posted on August 8, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, industrial architecture, lubbock, lubbock texas, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
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Poor you, no clouds to practice on! You did manage them just fine though. I like the toning in this photo.
I find it hard to take pictures with a clear blue sky, as I don’t get much practice on those (sob!).
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Both of us are pretty pathetic, aren’t we? Maybe we need to meet in the middle (wherever that might be – I will ask my Research Department to tell us) in hopes of seeing partly cloudy/partly sunny skies.
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The geometry as always is perfect – and here that piece of rubbish on far left counterpoints the stains / shadows on the wall.
Make portrait of the clouds for us please as seen through some portions of geometrical structures that do not intrude too much. Cheers, Vera
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Thanks, Vera. I hadn’t really thought about the counterpoint between the rubbish and the stain, though it is certainly apparent now that you’ve pointed it out.
We had some nice clouds today, but I was busy with a thousand other things and didn’t even get to photograph them…maybe they will still be around tomorrow!
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Every once in a while we have beautiful cloud coverage, sometimes I call them Ansel Adams skies. I shot photos of sky and clouds with the intention of using them on landscapes that had no clouds. I never did use them in that respect but I do like photos of just clouds. Noe this one has nice clouds and an interesting foreground, a good combination.
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I’ve added a sky with clouds to a cloud-free shot before – but like you now I mostly just shoot clouds for the sake of shooting clouds. When I can find any, I mean!
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Glad I’ve corrupted you with clouds. After all, I spent the entire spring just mixing ’em with trees and stuff. 🙂
BTW, on July 1-5, 2014, I’ll be teaching a course at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in taking visualization of photographs all the way to fine art prints. It’s called “The American West: Crafting Digital Prints. I’d love to have a Texan in the workshop….
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The class sounds excellent, and I would love to be the (token?) Texan! Thanks for letting me know.
I like clouds, and would like to learn how to photograph them – now that our weather patterns may be getting past the drought, there are more opportunities to practice shooting them!
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