Playing in the corn field.

[leuallen]

A nice light fog the other morning. This is the only place I could quickly find that had any possibilities to take advantage of the light. How did I do?

Factoids as I remember them from conversation with a bailer:

The round bales equal approx 13 of the conventional rectangular bales.

The round bales are going for $100-120 around here.

The bailing equipment is expensive and rather specialized thus many farmers contract the bailing out to specialists.

Round bales are more common now than rectangular bales.

Sometimes the bales are enclosed in a white plastic wrapper. This encourages fermentation much like the old time silage. When bales so covered, the field looks like it is dotted with marshmallows.

For some reason the sight of bales in the field has always attracted me, but what does a city boy know.

Larry

[Bruno Gil]

I can tell you that you captured an amazing light, don´t know if it this to close but i like it anyway

[Jeremy Roussak]

The light is wonderful. I'd have framed it very slightly differently, with more space on the left; it feels a little cramped.

Jeremy

[leuallen]

Jeremy

I took a couple of hundred photos - the light was tricky, the sun kept darting in and out. A strong wind moved the mist briskly. To the left, right, high, low, but don't think I  took any with more to the left. The way I framed it just seems the natural way to frame it to me. I leveled the tripod and then started rotating it slowly until my brain said stop, then I took the picture.

It was a serene, alien moment, alone in the misty cornfield. I often fondly remember times like that.

Larry

[leuallen]

Jeremy,

I spoke too soon. I found an image taken 2 minutes earlier that has more too the left. It has a more central composition with the main elements in the center. That was what I was trying to eliminate by cropping off the left.

But I was wrong. I think the second image is better. You were right.

Larry

[dhancock]

While #2 seems tight on the bottom, I think the problem with the first, was the shadow of the final bale in the row went outside the frame. I think it might have been okay if it hadn't been for that shadow.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Also one of my favourite subjects! These photos are very nice. In Portugal, where I live, one still sees a lot of these in the summer. Some farmers wrap them whole up in blue plastic, which is not very photogenic...