Harvest Season is Upon Us ...

The great part about the end of summer has always beens the fact that harvest season is just around the bend. It is truly an experience to help farm during this time of the year -- there's so much anticipation as to how the crops are yielding, if the weather will cooperate, or even what part of the machinery is going to break down. It's exhilarating, and at the end of the day, one is exhausted ... but it feels goods, and you can actually see what progress has been made.

The above images were taken on Saturday while my dad harvested the soybeans; the dust created by the beans just hovered above the fields until it finally settled, created a magnificent sunset. The other two show my dad combining.

Stopping by Woods ...

This tree nests itself on the far side of the family lake, all by itself. Even though the season is contrary to the stated imagery, the humidity, the lone reflection, and the time of day remind me of Robert Frost's, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

Tonight I attempted to experiment with what is commonly known as HDR. Now, although it is a three-letter word, it is nothing like what is commonly referred to as PCP. in the photography arena, HDR stands for High-Dynamic Range. You see, film / digital cameras can only capture so many tones. This is the reason that many times when you photograph someone or something and the sky is in the background, it turns white with no detail; it simply cannot capture beyond a certain tonal range. HDR takes multiple exposures, at both ends of the tonal range, and merges them together for one image that looks somewhat surreal. Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful with my HDR, however, I did capture this image of the lake on our family property. It seems that I have been consumed by sunsets ... hmm.