Cut Corn Field
This morning was one of those wierd end of summer phenomenons in Texas where there is both fog and blue skies. It has something to do with the “dew point”, whatever that is, and is an early indication that it will be an incredibly muggy afternoon. Even though the temps have ‘plummeted’ to the low 90’s the humidity makes the afternoons like a Russian steam bath and by afternoon I mean after 10am. By now most of the cotton is picked and setting in giant bales the size of mobile homes in the cotton fields. Another week and they’ll be on their way to the gins. It doesn’t matter what price cotton prices are its always regarded as a ‘loss’ by the farmers. I have asked a few of them about this and they give me these long stories about the price back in aught two or fuel prices soaring or interest on their war bonds or whatever till my eyes glaze over. Anyway, I’m driving down this farm to market road where there’s a straggler still baling cotton in his field. His green and yellow tractors and big bales of white cotton are on top of the brown cut field like decorations on a cake. The image is made more magical by this rain-forest like mist or fog or whatever it is. Because of the good rain we’ve had the past weeks everything else around these fields is orgasmicly verdant. And in this mist the green shimmers like precious emerald. I round a bend in the road and this field comes into view. It appears to be corn that has been cut and will be plowed into the ground. I have heard from the farmers that none of the corn fields made it because of the drought, but I don’t think farmers are to be trusted. This one is shimmering gold in this wierd misty light. It struck me so that I decided to turn back around and take a picture of it. I used the old 3.2mp Olympus and in this light I couldn’t really even see through the viewfinder. I guessed on a couple of shots and stitched this photo together. I confess I amped up the color saturation a bit, and added a little glow to it to make it more match what I remembered it to be like.
