The old fashioned grain elevators which were regularly used in the agricultural industry are now being replaced with the newer modernized cylinder shaped inland terminals. In the town of Morse in Saskatchewan, Canada, a brightly painted building stands between the cylinders where the grain elevators clean, weigh and store the grain.Rail cars are then used to transport the grain to the ocean ports like Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Churchill and Thunder Bay where it is moved to terminal elevators and loaded onto ships to be sent to over sixty different countries. The process continues year after year with some grain being kept for seeding or to feed the farm animals.Saskatchewan is the province of grain elevators who had a record number of 3200 elevators in the 1930's, but by 1999 the numbers had decreased to 304. The newer grain elevators are able to contain more grain and the process has become quicker, keeping the grain industry booming. ... continue below the picture...
... Grain Elevator in the town of Morse, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Technical Information:
I photographed this photo with the digital SLR camera model Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, aperture of f/13.0, exposure time of 1/25 sec. on ISO 100, as always I used a original Canon Lens, the focus lenght for this picture was 75mm.