I have noticed that I need to use photo “stitching” much more than I did before I moved to farm country. Someone mentioned they don’t see images like my farm shots from “home” – it has to do with the high contrast of the land vs the sky. I think two things are at play. First, there is a lot of “open space” – really open. I can be standing at the end of a field and the distant tree line can be a mile away. Second, the land is so flat that there are no hills beyond the tree line. There is nothing to fill up the space reserved for the sky. To capture the expanse, it leads me to take multiple frames and then have to piece them together.

Today’s picture is a look across the soybean field just before harvest. The plants are all dried and crisp and the beans are nearly falling out of the pods. Had the sun shown brightly, the field would have nearly glowed with its yellow-orange color. The only crop that is even more awash in yellows is the wheat harvest but that will not come around again until next June.

Since I try to be curtious to those without high speed internet connections, I am posting a very small image of what I saw and what I tried to capture. For those slurping down network bandwidth like a stranded cowboy who stumbles upon an oasis, feel free to click on the image to get a better view.

For the record, most crops were good this year on the shore with special not for the snap beans. The feed crops (corn and soybeans) have all been good as well as tomatoes, sweet corn, and the aforementioned snap beans. The potatoes were OK too but not to the extent of the other notables.