Photograph info: This photograph was taken last week at the Middletown Grange Fair in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania, our annual county fair, a 5-day event with great food and entertainment, rides for the kids, and those wonderful blue-ribbon contests in every category from antique tractors to apple pies, Beefsteak tomatoes to Dinner Plate Dahlias and cows to quilts!
I spent four days at the fair photographing various 4-H events for the Penn State Cooperative Extension (where I also work as a Master Gardener) and will share a couple dozen of the images over the next few posts.
Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Camera settings and post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II 
Thank you for visiting Durham Township!
--Kathleen
Striped shirt, striped tent, people looking around,
Fruits of lots of hard work at the Grange Fair abound.
A fresh trimming and primping is the best way
To keep your sheep from having a ba-a-a-ad hair day.
Welll i guess somebody has to do it but I could never shave a sheep.
Posted by Ms Willis on August 20, 2009 3:26 PMT'is the Season of Fairs across our land.
Scenes as this oft' appeared
May not a nation someday awake,
and realize whom else has been sheared?
Apologies to the Bard,
I'm embarrassed to hype it.
Fore King Lear it is not,
but a monkey, at least, could type it!
--Anomalous
Posted by david tinnon on August 21, 2009 3:09 AMI love the journey you take me.
A wonderful image. Charlotte's Web at the fair.
Posted by Richard Dennis on August 23, 2009 12:28 PMSuch a great shot.
I was at the Hunterdon County 4H fair for a couple of hours today and saw a sheep getting sheared. She did not seem too happy about it, but with the heat I am sure she appreciated it when it was all over.
Posted by Laurie on August 23, 2009 10:40 PMI like the strength of colours on this, and the sheep in the background looks like a camel
Posted by Tayab on August 24, 2009 8:37 AMCounty fairs are so much fun - we just had ours in Salem County NJ and I had so much fun taking pictures there - I am anxious to see all of yours - this one is fantastic with the DoF and long view down the tent....
Posted by Chris on August 24, 2009 4:48 PMTender toned.
I love how you've captured the thoroughness of the sheep's preparation before the competition. The John Deere hat nicely tops off the picture.
Posted by Jane on August 29, 2009 3:08 PMVery practical shot. I'm looking forward to seeing the others from the fair. I'm going to our fair in the morning.
Posted by Adam on August 30, 2009 4:01 AMVery beautiful shot..
Posted by Ard on August 30, 2009 3:49 PMThere's nothing more American than a good county fair and you captured it with this shot. Children who learn to love and care for animals, learn how to love and care for others but that's my opinion.
Mouse
Posted by Mouse Assist on September 2, 2009 9:28 AMI liked how the sheep is the center of the attention and not the person shearing. The sheep area is very in focus and the color seems more intense than the rest of the photo. I didn't know what was meant by curves adjustment.
Posted by Jane on September 2, 2009 11:47 AMI like how the symmetrical tent frames the rest of the scene, but I think there are to much stripes.
Posted by Xavier on September 8, 2009 4:18 PMWill the last person leaving the Fair please turn out the light? ......Hello?......Hello..........click...
Posted by David Tinnon on September 9, 2009 10:35 AMNice Pic.. I love the fair and all the little things that go on!
Posted by cheryl cassidy on September 12, 2009 9:43 PMDavid, I have been reading your comments over and over and laughing for at least the last half hour! You and JPH should be on stage as entertainers.
Posted by Victoria on September 13, 2009 10:10 AMVictoria -
Just egg me on with comments like yours.
DT and I will never be grouped with the bores. :)
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Posted by Kelli Garner on September 26, 2009 4:41 AM