Late harvest

[sdwilsonsct]

Suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

All are nice, but #3 is really something.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

All are nice, but #3 is really something.

+1.

[NancyP]

I like all of them. #3 and #2 do show a seldom-noticed part of a farmer's life, the rush to get the harvest in.

[Rajan Parrikar]

All evoke beautifully the mood of the prairie, but #3 is a standout.

[langier]

+1! No. 3 is the best of the lot.

[leuallen]

Scott,

We parallel each other in what we are imaging quite frequently. Sometimes it is hay bales, or old barns, and now harvesting. I have spent the last week chasing harvest pictures but the light has been poor. Got two good partial days and a few nice images.  Number 2 is the one I like but they are all excellent. I too like to work at the extremes of the light- just at sunrise or sunset and a little after. I learned something interesting last week. I was talking to a farmer and telling him that I could not find any farmers in the fields harvesting at sunrise and I thought that they all got up real early. He said that they are up but don't start early because the crops are too damp for field corn but the seed corn farmers don't care and they are there at sunrise. He told me of a general area they would be working and sure as rain I found them and they were heading out to the fields just as the sun came over the horizon. Had 20 minutes of blissful light. Don't think that works for beans though. Here in Central Illinois it is all beans and corn. If I remember right you are more in the wheat area.

At the beginning of November there will be some plowing bees. Do you have them up in your neck of the woods? They are fun and have lots of opportunities with 30 or 40 tractors running through the fields creating all sorts of patterns.

Larry

[sdwilsonsct]

Thanks, everyone. I didn't see #3 as special originally, but I am coming around to your opinion.

Larry, yes, it's wheat, canola, flax, barley, canary seed, lentils, here in southern Saskatchewan. No beans or corn: too cold. No plowing matches, either: it can stay at -20 F in November. Plus we have gone over to no-till farming to stop erosion and increase soil organic matter. Lots of pre-emergence herbicide.

The ends of the day are good not just for the light but for the constant reminder of the ephemeral opportunity to the get the shot. Very engaging.