Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
My Grandfather’s house is across the road from mine. Beside the old house are several intact outbuildings, including a smoke-house. In the corner of the smoke-house door is a cat hole, which allows felines to enter at their leisure and helps keep down the rodent population.
We were checking our back pasture Sunday before opening it up for the cows, when I ran across this skull of a young buck. He could have died of natural causes, but most likely he was wounded and died later. We have had a problem with poachers for the last couple of years, both in the daytime and at night. I’ve been awakened at 2AM by someone shooting towards my barn from in front of my house. Seems like we don’t really have a lot of hunters in my area, but rather a bunch of people that like to shoot at deer. There is a difference. What a waste.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
An old pair of log grabs hang from the grainery wall on our farm in Randolph County, North Carolina.
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Old tractor in the snow. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Photograph of Jersey cow, Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
It was pretty cold this past weekend, but not cold enough to stop neighbor Tommy Routh from continuing with his annual “pig picking” for friends and neighbors at Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel. A 200 pound free range hog raised by his son-in-law Bobby, split in half and cooked slow for about 15 hours until the meat falls off the bones. This is the “whole hog”, with a choice of ham, shoulder, rib and tenderloin. I’m primarily a vegetarian these days, but I freely admit I did have to try some. Excellent.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
When cold and messy weather comes, most of us can duck inside and get away from it. On a dairy farm, it means dealing with it head on. Cows have to be milked and fed twice a day whether it’s sunny and warm or frigid and nasty. Michael Williams of Williams Dairy south of Greensboro, North Carolina handles it every day.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Milking cows in the dairy parlor of Williams Dairy, a family farm south of Greensboro, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(Photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
An old Farmall tractor sits in a tractor shed on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A bird’s eye view at feeding time in our barnyard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
