Rural america

Everybody knows everybody. That can be a good and bad thing.

Morning Sunrise Dirt Roads and Old Barns❤️❤️❤️ Via Old Barns Project on Facebook

One summer evening, my husband and I got in our old truck and drove down a remote dirt road. We drove and drove and drove and didn't see a soul. I always wonder where the telephone poles go--no one seems to live out here. We explored the backroads for almost four hours and didn't see a single person. We saw abandoned farm equipment and an old truck but no people. As the sun was setting I jumped out of the truck and took this photo of the country road. I thought it was just a nice country…

Like something out of a cult sci-fi movie or thriller, these atmospheric photographs by Michael McCluskey are mainly captured

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Waiuku, New Zealand, 1984. Monolta X-500, Tokina 28-70 mm, Fuji Color slide, digitized with Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED in 2004 in too low resolution, altered by Snapseed 2014.

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If you believe Democratic politicians and their allies in the labor movement, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has a barely concealed agenda to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. Donahoe “can say whatever he wants,” Montana Senator Jon Tester told the Washington Post, “but I think he wants to privatize.” Why else would Donahoe be so eager to cut costs at the USPS? He’s trying to push the post office to the brink of collapse so there will be no choice but to sell the 238-year-old government…

States that grow the most corn have the lowest share of mobile homes. What, if anything, is behind that correlation?

Rural Iowa. Went for a drive out in Dallas County last night. Photographed some scenes of Iowa's farmland under smokey skies. #iowa #farm #farmlife #rurallife #rural #ruralphotography #landscapes #boringplace #liminalspace #heartland #midwest #nikon #nikoncreators #nikonphotography #lightroom

i wondered if the sound of my shutter would destroy the silence. it might even scare the bird on the wire. or if someone were sleeping on the front porch, under (notes) or, it might cause the sun to come up a second higher and destroy the whole effect..... a chance i had to take.

Vermont farm

"Abandoned Barn in Rural South Dakota, USA" by Stocksy Contributor "Raymond Forbes LLC"

Old tornado damaged house outside of Cedar Vale Kansas (IPhone 6s)

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Max Campbell on the photographer Sheron Rupp, from Mansfield, Ohio, who travelled around America documenting the people of rural communities from outside their homes.