Here’s a bucolic little scene, a nice, traditional farm with a windmill and a red barn outside the Minnesota community of Red Wing. Clouds are breaking up, a number of train tracks cross the scene to give your eye more to look at, and it just feels like a bit of the country we think might have vanished, but there it is in front of us.

I also like it because I took it from my seat on an Amtrak train going 60 mph with my cell phone. There are going to be a lot of cell phone shots on this site, and someone interested in photography might be interested in seeing how the technology has improved over the years.

This was the cover photo to my 2025 calendar.

October 14, 2024. OnePlus 12 cell phone, 6.06mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 23mm), f/1.35, 1/640, ISO 100.