This past summer I spent some time photographing the wheat harvest across Oklahoma. Most of my images were shot with my Nikon digital equipment, but I did grab a few shots with my 1970’s era Pentax 67 film camera. This is my favorite medium format film camera I have used and I have several lenses […]
4x5x365 – Day 57
Still working on photos from my wheat harvest assignment. I grabbed this photo during the morning maintenance before the harvest each morning. The guy on the left is a local farmer who works for his friend during the harvest, and the guy on the right is a custom harvester from England that comes over to the […]
4x5x365 – Day 56
Last combine photo for a while, I promise! I spent the past couple of weeks working on an assignment about the wheat harvest in Oklahoma so I have been around a lot of combines. Sorry about that, but this is what I got. This combine was sitting still in the field undergoing maintenance – an […]
4x5x365 – Day 55
Another John Deere combine shot. This time it is a 2012 (approx) John Deere 9860STS with GPS autosteer and all the bells and whistles on the left, and a 1997 (approx) John Deere 9600 on the right. The 9600 is a workhorse but not nearly as sophisticated or as fast as the one on the […]
4x5x365 – Day 54
I spent last week working on an assignment about the Oklahoma wheat harvest in northern Oklahoma, right close to the Kansas border. It was dusty, hot, and windy so I had to be careful to keep my lenses attached to my digital cameras in fear of dust on my sensor. I was quite busy shooting […]