this old barn :: photo journal

if you've followed this blog for a while, you know that i live on a farm and pretty much love it. we have several old barns on our property that will maybe, someday, be demolished. it will be a sad time, but until then, i explore and snap away...

dinner on the farm :: photo journal

summer sunset :: photo journal

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” ― Richie Norton

photography by cassandra pence ostermeier

grow to seed :: photo journal

"Then I discovered the prairie, and a slow healing began."

--stephen r. jones

photography by cassandra pence ostermeier

lilacs & dandelions :: photo journal

"darling, we go together like lilacs & dandelions"

 -- said no one ever. but they should have.

photos by cassandra pence ostermeier

on the farm :: photo journal

"there is never enough time to do all the nothing you want" --bill waterson

photos by cassandra pence ostermeier

this old barn :: photo journal

did you know i live on a farm? yep, i do. a very old one in fact... it's one of the original dairy farms in springfield. there are no longer cows, but we do have a wide variety of pets. haha! we are just corn & beans these days, but the old barns still stand.

i love living where i do. i love that my boys can run off and set up forts and build inventions out of the old "junk" they find. they play for hours. it's a childhood that i'm incredibly happy we are able to give them.

on the weekends, right before sunset, i usually have to walk over and herd them home. last weekend, i took my camera because the lighting was oh-so-perfect. it had been a few months (since it got cold) that i had wondered over. i'm glad i/we did... everything looks different in the winter.

maybe i'll build myself a fort sometime soon...

xoxo

photos by cassandra pence ostermeier

vintage camera collection :: photo journal

hi, my name is cassandra and i'm addicted to vintage cameras. i meeeeaaan.... though, isn't everybody? they sit on shelves in my bedroom and sometimes when i'm supposed to be working i daydream about who owned them before me. i think about what kind of pictures they took... what kind of memories were captured with this wonderful little machine? i think about how he/she's hands looked as he/she held the camera. did they buy it new or used... or maybe it was a gift?

do i use my vintage cameras? sometimes. definitely the polaroids. i've used my pinhole that i built myself, but i always loose patience. when i get the film developed, nothing ever turns out. most of the others collect dust, but look oh-so-pretty doing so.

here's my camera collection diary:

1. the kodak brownie holiday flash: bought at a flea market for $6. my day was made. i mean, the original price in 1953 was $5.  it's pretty darn cute if you ask me.
2. an original box brownie: found in a friend's garage. seriously. it's from the 40's and is basically a box of cardboard covered with leather. this was made before bakelight (plastic) was invented.
3. camflex by national instrument corporation: another camera from the 40's, this one gifted to me by my mother-in-law. she gets me.
4. handmade pinhole camera: i bought a kit at barnes & noble that walked me through how to make it. seriously.
5. kodak brownie starflash: this was my sweet friend's grandmothers. i can't believe she didn't want it. it came in the box and still has the flash bulb intact. i think this one is my favorite.
6. polaroid land camera with rainbow flash: i have a lot of polaroids. they are all blue or black or dark green. the rainbow stripe is simply a sticker but it makes the entire camera so.much.cooooler!!! just ask any hipster.

so that's that. what do you collect?