In 2016 I had an assignment to photograph Oklahoma State Senator Mike Schulz at his cotton farm in southwest Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Senator Mike Schulz
I met Senator Mike Schulz while on an assignment to photograph him for the cover of Oklahoma Living Magazine. We met before daylight on his farm in far southwest Oklahoma. He was excited to meet with me and very cooperative. I enjoy meeting people and getting to know them through my camera. As I was […]
4x5x365 – Day 48
Back to the wheat harvest. Each morning, crews get up at daybreak and clean the combine. Now combines are not some small piece of machinery you can just run to the car wash. They are massive, expensive pieces of diesel-powered computers that must process massive amounts of straw to get a few kernels of wheat […]
4x5x365 – Day 46
Here is another shot of this massive John Deere combine working to harvest wheat near Altus, Oklahoma. As I mentioned yesterday, I had to guess at where the combine was going to be and hope I was in the correct spot and prefocus my Toyo VX-125 on the spot I thought the operator would drive […]
4x5x365 – Day 45
Oklahoma is an agricultural state and wheat is the number one cash crop grown in Oklahoma. Our sweeping western plains is perfect for growing this golden grain, and at harvest time, the prairie is alive with combines working hard to harvest the bountiful crops. I was in Alva working on a story about the wheat […]