The unique grain elevator with the twin headhouses in Meriden, IL witnesses a nice sunset on the tail end of a low pressure system that moved through earlier in the day on September 11th, 2022. […]
Category Archives: Grain Elevators
New Work: The Reaper’s Scythe
The last remaining bits of the ADM grain elevator in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood are still standing on June 20th, 2021 but the end is near for this venerable business. Demolition equipment from Heneghan Wrecking […]
TBT: Grain Elevator – Simla, CO
Today’s Throwback Thursday takes us to 2012 when I photographed this grain elevator in Simla, Colorado along the abandoned Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific line east of Colorado Springs. Sadly, not terribly long after I […]
Film Friday: 5 Minutes of Light
You might remember my post about waiting for the light. I finally decided that I wouldn’t have access to my film developing equipment (stored at my Mom’s house) for awhile, so I sent a few […]
New Work: Grand Ridge Grain Elevator
Another photo from Sunday’s rainy outing. This is the old wood grain elevator in Grand Ridge, IL framed by the newer concrete elevator. When I was working on the map that I discussed in this […]
Tools for Reviving a Project
It’s been awhile since I worked on my grain elevator project in earnest. And that is despite the fact that I have moved to a state where I only have a handful of elevators photographed. […]
Sunrise – Bethune, CO
I came across this image while digging out images for the Old Trucks and Grain Elevators post from yesterday. For reasons that I cannot remember nor extrapolate from my Lightroom notes, I never even marked […]
Old Trucks and Grain Elevators
One thing I’ve discovered while organizing my Lightroom library is that I really love shooting old trucks while working on my grain elevator project. Old trucks and grain elevators just seem to go together perfectly. […]