The Easter Bunny is coming tonight. Hope the one for ‘‘this district makes it through the rain! John Orcutt April 21, 2019 Instagram You Might Also Like Historic Pillsbury Grain Elevator, between Felt and Ashton, Idaho. Like distant ships on the horizon, grain elevators in the American West appear in the wide-open landscape long before reaching them. Happening upon these magnificent structures, one thinks about the engineering, the transport of materials, the labor and perseverance that it must have taken to construct them.Frank Gohlke, master of the Texas landscape, expressed his feelings about these extraordinary buildings with these few sentences: “I was frustrated by the discrepancy between the ordinariness of the facts surrounding the grain elevators and the intensity of my emotional responses to the objects themselves. …. The dignity of grain elevators, the precision, intelligence and grace of their formal language, their majestic presence within the landscape all seem to confirm the faith that, given the right circumstances, we will make visible the best that is within us”. #orcuttphotography #bestofthegemstate #historicidahograinelevators February 16, 2022 Returning to our home in Driggs from a trip to Idaho Falls to pick up a few building materials, we came into beautiful Teton Valley with this mellow sunset illuminating the open landscape. #teronvalleyidaho #bestofthegemstate #orcuttpgotography #iphonephotofromthecar #westernnaturephotography November 20, 2022 Bridges and apartment buildings between Cincinnati and Covington, KY. April 30, 2015
Historic Pillsbury Grain Elevator, between Felt and Ashton, Idaho. Like distant ships on the horizon, grain elevators in the American West appear in the wide-open landscape long before reaching them. Happening upon these magnificent structures, one thinks about the engineering, the transport of materials, the labor and perseverance that it must have taken to construct them.Frank Gohlke, master of the Texas landscape, expressed his feelings about these extraordinary buildings with these few sentences: “I was frustrated by the discrepancy between the ordinariness of the facts surrounding the grain elevators and the intensity of my emotional responses to the objects themselves. …. The dignity of grain elevators, the precision, intelligence and grace of their formal language, their majestic presence within the landscape all seem to confirm the faith that, given the right circumstances, we will make visible the best that is within us”. #orcuttphotography #bestofthegemstate #historicidahograinelevators February 16, 2022
Returning to our home in Driggs from a trip to Idaho Falls to pick up a few building materials, we came into beautiful Teton Valley with this mellow sunset illuminating the open landscape. #teronvalleyidaho #bestofthegemstate #orcuttpgotography #iphonephotofromthecar #westernnaturephotography November 20, 2022
