cultivates

From one palm tree in California to a tree farm in Wisconsin. This last summer I was visiting Sayner Wisconsin, and there I made this photograph. I don’t really remember if I knew the deer was there, dead center in the photograph.  

  David’s image of the mountain had a field of yellow flowers in the foreground and it reminded me of this image I made recently.   Driving along the American highway in September you will see field after field of corn. Sometimes the field will have signs next to it as some sort of identification. I fear it is genetically modified. I have driven past corn fields and other fields of agriculture so many times and thought they were beautiful in their patterns and colors. As I speed by a field it reminds me as a child watching those lines fold and bend in a perfect pattern waiting to be photographed. It has always been difficult to make those photos because it becomes a problem of the forest for the trees. The large field in it’s entirety is fascinating but can you really see the plants. One has to make a decision of what to show. This time I selected just the front row and narrowed that down to the few in the center of the frame to put light on. The effect is dramatic and isolating of that one stalk of corn amongst the rest. It allows the viewer to observe the tree and the forest.