I recently had the opportunity to fly a new drone around and do some shake down photos with it. I chose this farmstead to check out. I wandered around it two days in a row a while back, and it was a fantastic place to explore.
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I roamed northwestern North Dakota yesterday, and I thought it was interesting when I saw a “No Jake Brakes” sign. I almost turned around and snapped a shot for a post like this, but I was on a mission to my next photo target. That’s okay…I encountered this one several miles later.
If your name is Jake, and you’re a scofflaw, I can direct you to the location of this sign so you can walk on the wild side. Otherwise, I suppose you’re safe to proceed.
On a recent photo trip I was able to camp out at the beautiful Graham’s Island State Park, which I highly recommend, and then roam the area. The first thing I spotted in the morning was this farm. You can see how hazy the skies were from all that Canadian and Pacific Northwest wildfire smoke. This was a month ago, and much of the summer has been the same.
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This old house is one of the few remaining parts of the ghost town of Trotters, which was one of the Bucket List destinations I finally reached this summer. You aren’t likely to find this house without The Google or a drone, however. It’s visible for an instant as you head up the highway, but it’s easy to miss. I’d surveyed the area from above before heading out here, though, and assessed whether it was accessible once I got there. But there was something I hadn’t counted on.
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I recently took a little road trip, and along the way I found a trio of really nice barns. I thought I’d take a moment to share photos of them here. Isn’t this one majestic? It was huge.
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I don’t consider myself a modern day Don Quixote – I’ll leave that to my friend Rob over at Say Anything – but I do have a thing for windmills, albeit photographing them instead of tilting at them. It’s been a minor theme since I got into this photography and blogging thing way back when.
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While checking out an old prairie church I noticed this truck off to the side of the road and paid it a brief visit.
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When it comes to finding points of photographic interest around North Dakota, I’ve got plenty of resources. I have maps. I have lists. I have online resources. I keep an eye out for interesting things posted by others, especially locals in certain places. The Randolph School showed up on one of my maps, so I followed my usual ritual: finding its precise GPS location; pixel-peeping it on The Google; determining if it’s still where it should be; determining if there’s still a road to it (especially in the Prairie Pothole areas); and plotting my way to visit it for myself. When I arrived at the location of the Randolph School, however, I was surprised to see that there were two of them.
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In a previous post I mentioned the Fargo Airsho and my day-before meet & greet with some of the stars. Today, you’ll see the photos I brought home from the actual event the next day.
Continue readingRecently, some town east of here called Fargo held a little thing they call the Airsho. I went down the day before as part of a meet & greet with the Blue Angels, the A-10 Thunderbolt demo pilots, and the F-22 Raptor demo team. It was a fantastic day!
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