No Read'n, No Writin', No 'Rithmetic, No Mo'

            Another shot of what remains of this little Delia, Kansas one-room schoolhouse.  I guess technically, this would be a Jackson Co. school as it's about two miles outside the town's boundary.

I got myself temporarily stuck near where I stood to take this photo.  I turned off NW 110 Rd onto the road in front of the school and instantly realized that was a mistake as I started to slip and slide.  I stopped and just left it there in the middle of the road with my tail end jutting slightly into 110 while I took my photos.  Fortunately, I had no trouble backing out after I had finished.  It was all quite beautiful out in the country with the new mantle of snow covering everything.  But it was also quite cold and the wind quickly began an assault on my fingers during the shooting.  Gloves, alas, are just not practical for wielding a camera.  Still, in spite of the frozen digits, it was a pleasant enough foray.  I nonetheless count the days until spring. :-)

This is the photo I mentioned I was having trouble with (in the caption to the previous upload) yesterday.  The sky was marred by one of those seemingly intractable artifacts that digital photography is known for.  In this case, it was what appeared to be an ugly monochromatic rainbow. If you've been involved in digital photography long enough, I'd imagine just about everyone experiences this situation:  a featureless expanse, usually the sky, that instead of gradually, smoothly, going from very bright to darker, it "stair-steps" its way from light to darker--looking much like a monochromatic rainbow.  It took a great deal to rid the photo of the darn thing, and the end result wasn't quite what I had envisioned as a result.

Taken in: United States / Kansas / Pottawatomie (show map)

Taken on: January 12, 2019

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Abandoned Building

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winter

one-room schoolhouse

abandoned school

rural

Kansas

Delia, Kansas

Jackson County, Kansas

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Camera: Nikon D810, f/10.0, 1/320 sec, 21mm, ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D810
Lens:	TAMRON SP AF 10-24mm F3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical IF B001N
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	21mm
ISO:	250
Exposure Bias:	+1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.14 (Windows)
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