IH McCormick Farmall

Ditto to the Deere. I really like how this has reproduced the red. Nearly looks like one of my Grandfathers old slides (oh, those were the days, sitting in the lounge room with the whole family, watching slides from the farm...boring back then, but still a good memory!)

I've got one of these Farmalls sitting under the old barn waiting to be restored.

I grew up in the town where this show was last weekend, and this is really home. When I first started getting back into photography some years ago someone asked me where I thought I would go to take pictures, assuming that one needs to go to Yosemite like AA. I said I'd go out the back door and take pictures of cows and corn.

michaelbsc said:

I've got one of these Farmalls sitting under the old barn waiting to be restored.

I grew up in the town where this show was last weekend, and this is really home. When I first started getting back into photography some years ago someone asked me where I thought I would go to take pictures, assuming that one needs to go to Yosemite like AA. I said I'd go out the back door and take pictures of cows and corn.

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If you can't make good photos in your back yard, you can't make them anywhere! Cows and corn are good for me too. I have an H and an M from the farm, even though the farm is long gone. Everytime I get on the M, I think of Dad, as that was his tractor.

We've still got about 300 acres, about half woodland, some wetland, and probably 100 acres of actual tended field. The "farming" is done by tenants these days, so no one has actually been in the tractor riding business for a number of years. But we've still got three tractors and two farm trucks that my grandfather bought from the 40s, 50, 60s, and 70s.

And a lot of folks in the neighborhood still keep livestock, too.

I think they all make pretty glamorous subjects. After all, if it weren't for farmers, everyone would starve.