Hay Bales Metal Print

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Farmers work year-round growing crops with no assurance that price will outweigh cost when the season ends. Baling hay is hard, sweaty, honest work done under the hot sun.
I was driving along one of those two-lane back roads out in the middle of nowhere when I came upon a field of freshly cut hay that had been rolled into round bales and held together with plastic wrap not much different than the plastic wrap in my kitchen.
I knew I had to turn around and get a better look. I drove slowly along the dirt road bordering the field and stopped. A farmer on a four-wheel ATV came toward me while I struggled through weeds nearly as high as my head through the ditch and onto his land.
He arrived as I was standing still composing the shot and asked what I was doing. I explained I wanted a picture of the hay bales. He tipped his hat and said, “I thought maybe you were looking for choke cherries.”
“No,” I said, “All I want is a photograph.”
“People pay for that?...

My artwork is focused on bringing out the emotion of the location to you the viewer. If the photograph puts a smile on your face, then I have achieved my goal. You are invited to enjoy evocative scenes of the world as it is and on occasion as it could be. My career in photography began over forty years ago when I purchased a Polaroid camera that popped out small prints on hard paper after having been waved in the breeze. A series of simple cameras followed until I realized that photography was more than a hobby, and it became a passion, one that I still enjoy today. I challenge myself to find new and interesting locations and use the wonder of changing light and weather to present to you, the viewer what it feels like to be there, and to...