Amish tobacco

Posted by Lerkes on Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:30 am

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An Amish family cutting their tobacco crop. 7D 70-200 Hand held. 1/1600 f/4.0 ISO 400 Full frame.

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by Gary Briney on Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:45 pm

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Great shot of summertime on the farm back when --- this also would look really good with a B/W vintage treatment.

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by James W. Milligan on Sat Aug 23, 2014 2:55 pm

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A very nice image of an Amish family working the land. I always enjoy my trips to Lancaster and one can't help but marvel at the clean and well attended farm land. Just love the 2 mule power tractor

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by jerryb on Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:24 am

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Nice comp showing the curves,crops, and other workers in the BG.

Larger sized samples of my work can be seen on Google Plus at https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JerryBarnettPhoto

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by Steven Major on Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:41 pm

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Nice shot. Interesting how most Amish refuse to use tobacco but all are eager to grow it, putting others peoples health at risk, for cash. Those Amish who do use smoke cigars and chew tobacco because cigarettes are to "worldly".

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by pleverington on Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:27 am

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Love your images of the Amish Steve. This is another wonderful one. The different layers are graphic and make some good composition. I didn't know they grew tobacco.

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by Lerkes on Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:32 am

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Paul - they grow a lot of tobacco, esp this year. It brings a good price for them and the kids they have are needed when they plant it and then when they harvest it. Steve

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by pleverington on Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:31 am

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Thanks Steve. Hey...don't they smoke pipes? Or am I not remembering right...

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by Lerkes on Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:37 pm

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Paul - very few of them smoke around here and I don't think I've seen any of them smoke a pipe. They smoke something that looks similar to what Josie Wales smoked

Not sure about the other Amish communities. Never seen a woman smoke anything.

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by pleverington on Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:54 pm

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Ahhhhhh....... Josie Wales....Just watched The good, bad, and ugly again the other day....Hard to believe it's been so many years now..(1966). It came to mind because we just lost Eli Wallach who played the infamous beloved character "Tuco" in that one. He did such a fine job....

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