Barbed Wire

 

Several years ago, I joined a weekly blog meme called "Good Fences" where we would show and write about fences. Since I love to photograph fences I miss this meme - it ended around 2016, I think. But that doesn't prevent me from still blogging about fences every now and then.

Today it's barbed wire. Horrible if you get hurt by it and photogenic at the same time. I'm not talking about the rolled barbed wire that is used to keep prisoners inside camps or to create a barrier against different thinking people or to divide countries. I'm thinking of the barbed wire along meadows, pastures and the like. The often rusty kind.

If something is entangled in the fence, it's even more interesting and often prettier.

It makes a great foreground for a Hawai'ian sunset. 

Often you can find grasses hanging over it, softly waving in the wind, or the young mustard in the background.

It becomes fascinating with snow on it, frozen from the wind.

Barbed wire winds around fence posts and functions as supporting actor in a shadow play.

Irresistible with the background of a stunning sunrise.

Photos were taken during the last ten years, most of them in Sonoma County, but some on the Big Island of Hawai'i and in Northern Arizona.