One of my golfing buddies took a week off after shooting a five under par 67. I asked him why he wasn’t back out on the course immediately. He responded that he knew the next round wasn’t going to be as good as the last one and he wanted to enjoy remembering how great his last round was. After yesterday, we have the same issue. Our response is a little bit different. We headed out to make more photographs.
Brooks wanted to go back to Stonehenge because he thought he had some better ideas about how to improve what he did yesterday. When photographing, the better you know the area the better your photographs will be.
After a stop at Stonehenge, we headed east up the Columbia River and turned north after a bit. We wound up in the little town of Bickelton for lunch at the town's combination grocery store, restaurant, and community center.
Leaving Bickelton I realized the two characteristics of this area; wind and wheat. There are dryland wheat farms and wind farms with lots of wind turbines generating electricity.
This is a combination of five images. If I printed it at my normal size, it would be five feet long and a foot and a half tall. That’s a lot of windmills and a lot of wheat fields. I decided that this combination of elements, wind and wheat would be a good topic for one of my projects. It will be something I will be looking for during the rest of safari.
I think the project will have to include some videos just to capture the silence of the wheat fields and the whooshing of the turbines.
Today is the half way point of this year's safari.
A late add. In the tradition of "the making of..." Here's a picture of what the panoramic photographic of the wind and wheat photograph looked like.
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