Beautiful Osage Hills

Charmin · Jun 21, 2011

Just some pictures of our beautiful Osage Hills---taken in northern Osage County, Oklahoma. My daughter Josie took these pictures and is experimenting with some new photo effects. See what y'all think----thanks for looking!

Felinepeachy · Jun 21, 2011

Don't know about the photo effects but that pic with the barbed wire and hair is excellent! I would hang that one. :notworthy:

Charmin · Jun 21, 2011

One more---This is an old railroad culvert under the Midland Valley Railroad tracks that used to come across the prairie. Its really something to me that these are still standing--they've been there for many years and haven't collapsed yet!

Charmin · Jun 21, 2011

Felinepeachy said:
Don't know about the photo effects but that pic with the barbed wire and hair is excellent! I would hang that one.

Thanks Peachy! The pump jack and the bald hill close-up has some kind of overlay effect she used---it makes them look like old pictures---kinda weathered or something.
:hello:

Felinepeachy · Jun 21, 2011

Sandcreek, you remember when things used to be built to last? Well apparently those were made during THAT era LOL :laughing7:

Felinepeachy · Jun 21, 2011

sandcreek4 said:
Felinepeachy said:

Don't know about the photo effects but that pic with the barbed wire and hair is excellent! I would hang that one.

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Thanks Peachy! The pump jack and the bald hill close-up has some kind of overlay effect she used---it makes them look like old pictures---kinda weathered or something.

Ah yes I see it now. I thought it was eyes LOL

Charmin · Jun 21, 2011

Felinepeachy said:
Sandcreek, you remember when things used to be built to last? Well apparently those were made during THAT era LOL

People used to be craftsmen and take pride in their work---You just don't see that much anymore! Those old culverts will probably still be standing long after my bones have gone back to the earth.

rginn · Jun 21, 2011

Very nice effects and the pics came out great. That culvert reminds me of some of the old WPA (we piddle around) construction. Or CCC. Those guys built stuff that will be around long after we're all forgotten.

Charmin · Jun 21, 2011

RGINN said:
Very nice effects and the pics came out great. That culvert reminds me of some of the old WPA (we piddle around) construction. Or CCC. Those guys built stuff that will be around long after we're all forgotten.

We found a couple of those CCC erosion control places here on the Preserve after a spring burn---I had no idea these things were even there. The CCC boys were masters of erosion control! Those rocks look just the same today as I'm sure they looked when they laid them out.
Thanks RGINN! :hello:

Some pics of the CCC boys work:

roy2bears · Jun 22, 2011

sand creek is this preserve where the buffalo roam?

allen · Jun 22, 2011

she will make a great photographer some day.

Charmin · Jun 22, 2011

roy2bears said:
sand creek is this preserve where the buffalo roam?

Yes, we have approx 2,500(+/-) head of bison(buffalo). My husband is a cowboy on the Preserve.
Have you ever been up to this part of the state, Roy?
The first group of pictures (of the cattle and the hills) was taken a little further north and west of the Preserve--it really opens up to wide open prairie the further north and west you go. You can see why the Osage Indians wanted this for their reservation!

allen said:
she will make a great photographer some day.

She's trying, Allen...Thank you for the comments!!

Mental Granny · Jun 30, 2011

Carmen Josie is a wonderful photographer I always love her pics !
Hows it going over there ? :icon_sunny:

Charmin · Jun 30, 2011

Mental Granny said:
Carmen Josie is a wonderful photographer I always love her pics !
Hows it going over there ?

Thanks Evy--Everything is going fine over here....We're just as HOT as you are :icon_sunny:

. Been staying cool in the pool.
Hope you are doing well, too? :hello:

Carmon~~

ronwoodcraft · Jul 1, 2011

What great photography!! Love it. :icon_thumright:

Charmin · Jul 2, 2011

ronwoodcraft said:
What great photography!! Love it.

Thanks Ron :hello:

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Ray S S · Jul 2, 2011

Hello, Sandcreek, Very nice pics. She is really developing her skill as a photographer.
I like the close-up of the steer's face and th second one of the culvert. Looking at the
stones and seeing how level and nicely they fit together demonstrates the old rule that
was followed by the stone masons in building the dry stone walls.

It was Two on one--one on two.

Thanks for sharing.

Ray

Charmin · Jul 2, 2011

Ray S S said:
Hello, Sandcreek, Very nice pics. She is really developing her skill as a photographer.
I like the close-up of the steer's face and th second one of the culvert. Looking at the
stones and seeing how level and nicely they fit together demonstrates the old rule that
was followed by the stone masons in building the dry stone walls.

It was Two on one--one on two.

Thanks for sharing.

Ray

Josie is developing her skills and sees things that I would never see unless she took the picture of it. She loves these hills where we live and enjoys all the beautiful wildlife we have, even the steers are photogenic to her.
I'm glad you enjoyed the culvert pictures, too--if only they could talk! I wonder how many trains went across those culverts and how many cattle were shipped off of the prairie over those railroad tracks above them. They are truely a piece of history! and proof that those stone masons were artists and their work can withstand the tests of time.

Thank you Ray for the comments.

Carmon