Farmers Daughter Quilt Barn Kids T-Shirt

This Callaway County barn was built in the 1940s from lumber cut from the farm. The logs were cut by hand, and then hauled to a sawmill set up in the woods. After the barn was built, a public dance was held in the hay loft. A piano was hoisted by ropes up through the door in the hay loft, and temporary stairs were added to get to the loft. The barn has sheep and milking stalls, and was used as a cattle barn in later years. This image is number eight in my Quilt Barn Collection. (Northern Callaway County, Missouri)

Cricket Hackmann is a fine art photographer specializing in Missouri landscapes. As a farm wife and mother-of-two, Cricket Hackmann's love of photography began with documenting her children's days...and has expanded to become a means of holding on to a piece of all the beauty that surrounds us. Her goal is to produce vibrant, stunning images of the rural landscapes and close-ups of nature in central Missouri...with occasional other subjects included as they catch her eye. As a self-taught photographer, Cricket works daily to learn new ways of honing her skills and improving her art. She uses a DSLR camera as her primary tool to capture an image, and then various software programs, as needed, to transform the image into the desired...