Huge skies in Teton Valley this week with clouds at multiple levels. This is a view from our house in Driggs looking northwest. #tetonvalleysky #driggsidaho #bestofthegemstate #idahophotography cynthia November 8, 2023 Uncategorized 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 #orcuttphotography.com February 15, 2022 Wheel Line Art from eastern Idaho, Teton Valley during a white-out. When the background is obscured, these irrigation devices are sculptures on the landscape! #wheellineart #bestofthegemstate #tetonvalleyidaho #driggsidaho #orcuttphotography.com #newwork January 19, 2023 Tree trunks after an overnight snow storm are provided with additional definition with snow on the side facing the wind driven snow. The ethereal nature of this scene evoked a sense of solitude and completeness in the winter forest in western New York State a few years ago. #westernnewyorkstate #solitude #winterphotography #orcuttphotography.com March 16, 2023
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 #orcuttphotography.com February 15, 2022
Wheel Line Art from eastern Idaho, Teton Valley during a white-out. When the background is obscured, these irrigation devices are sculptures on the landscape! #wheellineart #bestofthegemstate #tetonvalleyidaho #driggsidaho #orcuttphotography.com #newwork January 19, 2023
Tree trunks after an overnight snow storm are provided with additional definition with snow on the side facing the wind driven snow. The ethereal nature of this scene evoked a sense of solitude and completeness in the winter forest in western New York State a few years ago. #westernnewyorkstate #solitude #winterphotography #orcuttphotography.com March 16, 2023
