The Swallows and the Gray Barn at Bayonet Farm

The swallows were flying all around me, some of them almost crashing into me.

I noticed that if you walk right into the barn and among the mud, straw, feathers, and poop that litter the barn's dirt floor, and stay still, they soon forget you are there and proceed to go about their business of catching insects and flitting in and out of the barn's three openings.

In this post, I'll walk you 360-degrees around this old barn and also wander through the open doors into the utility section that these swallows call home.

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For these photos, I was fooling around with the HDR settings on my Sony RX100 V in which you can configure it to take 3 images in succession: one under-exposed (-3), one over-exposed (+3), and one composite image that aggregates the dynamics of the three images.

If you look carefully at some of the images, you'll be able to see some of the ghosted swallows due to their rapid movement that was occurring as the RX-100 attempted to capture its three images.

One down-side about multi-captures with HDR and/or continuous shooting mode is that it makes the job of editing the images in Lightroom a PITA. You have to spend too much time reviewing and deleting the unwanted images. But, as the saying goes, "you can't have your cake and eat it too!"

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All images @cognoscere and taken on Thursday afternoon 08/10/2017 at Bayonet Farm in Holmdel, New Jersey (Sony RX100 V)