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Producers may qualify for state and federal drought relief funding in several different areas of production agriculture, including water availability, livestock loss, fire and disease. (Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agricultural Communications Services)
May 2022.
Walk from Berwick to Exceat via Alfriston.
Son heridas. Heridas provocadas. ¿Y el culpable? . . puedes verlo y sentirlo. Ahí está, tras la oscuridad del camino. Radiante, devorando y consumiéndolo todo. Pero dentro del monstruo sobrevivimos unos pocos con una pequeña luz, menos brillante, pero más firme. Repondremos el daño, curaremos las heridas.
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They are wounds. Wounds caused. And the culprit? . . You can see it and feel it. There, behind the darkness of the road. Radiant, devouring and consuming everything. But inside the monster we survive a few with a small light, less bright, but firmer. We will replace the damage will heal the wounds.
Meki Batu, Ethiopia - Young pepper plants growing in a dry cracked field at the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative in Meki Batu.
Photo © Edwin Remsberg. High res version available for license at www.remsberg.com
Meki Batu, Ethiopia - Young pepper plants growing in a dry cracked field at the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative in Meki Batu.
Photo © Edwin Remsberg. High res version available for license at www.remsberg.com
Meki Batu, Ethiopia - Young pepper plants growing in a dry cracked field at the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative in Meki Batu.
Photo © Edwin Remsberg. High res version available for license at www.remsberg.com
Meki Batu, Ethiopia - Young pepper plants growing in a dry cracked field at the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative in Meki Batu.
Photo © Edwin Remsberg. High res version available for license at www.remsberg.com
Meki Batu, Ethiopia - Young pepper plants growing in a dry cracked field at the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative in Meki Batu.
Photo © Edwin Remsberg. High res version available for license at www.remsberg.com
It's the Cracked Ground with Rocks texture created in the Filter Forge plugin. It can be seamless tiled and rendered in any resolution without loosing details.
You can see the presets and download this texture for free on the Filter Forge site here — www.filterforge.com/filters/14003.html (created by Sneath)
To use this texture download Filter Forge 30-day trial for free here — www.filterforge.com/download/
Steens Mountain gazes at its own reflection in a lake on the Alvord Playa. Also worth noting: the appearance of Andromeda right over the mountain and the fading of some zodiacal light on the western horizon.
I took this photo in March, and it was one I had been contemplating for quite a while before I took it. Playing near the water on the Alvord playa is a tricky business. The words "sticky" and "slippery" cannot often be used to describe the same thing, but in this case the oxymoron applies: When exposed to water, the playa becomes extremely sticky/slippery, which I had discovered while scouting this location earlier in the day.
Having accidentally left a single footprint earlier, I assumed I'd be shooting across the water with a longer lens during the night, which is the plan I had in mind when I returned. I parked several hundred feet away from where the ground appeared to be wet and walked as close to the edge of the wet area as I dared. However, as I was setting up, I heard a strange whistling/sucking/slurping noise that seemed to grow louder as the wind blew harder. After a few minutes and a few test shots, I realized that this little lake was moving toward me. The water first flowed into the ground's cracks; once the cracks were filled, the playa itself became covered in an inch-deep (or so) layer of water.
I ended up switching to a wide lens and just waiting where I was. After 10 minutes I ended up taking this photo; the cracked playa in the foreground had been dry and 30 feet or so from the edge of the "lake" just 5 minutes before. After grabbing a few shots, I got out of there before, fearing that I was going to get stuck in the Alvord's infamous mud.
Little Sahara, Juab County, Utah.
Yet another one from the Alvord Desert.
The title of this photo is derived from a paraphrased portion of one of my friend Buck Christensen's short stories. I met Buck a dozen years ago or so in a fiction workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He also does some great photography, which you should check out.
At the conclusion of Buck's short story (the name and many of the other details of which escape me), after a tense family meeting, one of his characters exhales cigarette smoke near a window; the smoke hangs and slowly shifts in the morning light, creating a number of different smoke sculptures. It's a moment in which the narrative slows to quarter-speed and the characters as well as the reader have an opportunity to reflect on what has taken place, with the smoke possibly being a metaphor for the characters' thought processes as they each silently work through the story's events in their minds.
Out in the desert, I decided to set up my camera for timelapse while I ate breakfast, and while reviewing the photos I was struck by how much these thin clouds danced, wiggled, and shifted around the sky without actually travelling anywhere. I was immediately reminded of Buck's story--of smoke shape-shifting into various sculptures. It's a powerful image, and it has obviously stuck with me for a long time.
A lot was happening in the story's subtext, but for me that one scene in that one story reminds me of several things--that my favorite art is understated and layered with ideas that can lie dormant for years, that we're constantly surrounded by beautiful pieces of art (in this case, smoke sculptures) that could be seen if we could only momentarily disengage from the myopia brought on by our own problems, and that I'm becoming increasingly aware that I'm just the sum of my own artistic experience.
Following that last line of thought, if I were asked to name my photographic influences, I'm not sure I could stick to only photographers. Literature, cinema, and music especially all have played a role in the way my photos look. Many of these influences are subtle, but some are a little more obvious. For example, I haven't been able to process a photo for the past couple of weeks without listening to a song written by Jason Molina. And many of these photos have a cooler (ie, more blue) look to them. Does this have to do with Molina singing the blues? I wish I knew.
