This is a field next to my parent’s house in rural North Dakota. Do ya’ like how I threw ‘rural’ in there? As if wheat randomly pops up in the sprawling urban center nearest you?
And now, a conversation between yours truly and a fictional tourist in the sprawling urban center nearest me:
Tourist: “Can you tell me how to get to TGI Friday’s?”
Me: “Let’s see… go 2 blocks north, and take a left at the field.”
Tourist: “The corn field, or the wheat field?”
Me: “Either will get you to that Appletini, chief, but I’d take wheat. Traffic is murder in the corn at this time of day…”
About this image: Ilford 35mm film scan moderately modified
Refrigerator Magnate 
stunning!
So inky, when are you going to publish a book of all these exquisite photographs??
Thanks so much, Dishy!
Well… I figure if I can keep shooting for another 30 years or so, I might have enough marginal material to make a small pamphlet. The cool kind. On shiny paper. 🙂
He should shouldn’t he!? 🙂
Er… ahh…
🙂
If so, don’t forget to publish the comments as well 🙂
That would be the best part! 🙂
Wheat. It’s what’s for Breakfast.
*munch munch munch*
I think I chipped a tooth.
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So pretty! It makes me want summer… and beer for some reason. Maybe that is just a left over desire from yesterday still…
Or fall…
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So now you’re taking photos before you were born. I don’t believe you! Pre-womb photography is impossible!
Hahaha!
It’s time machine Friday, Binky! 🙂
Damn, got in there before me Binky. Talk about a fetus prodigy!
Am I really the only one with a way-back machine?! 🙂
I agree with Annabelle…where’s the beer?
Ha!
You would think it would be around here somewhere! 🙂
Did someone say beer? Hmm, day after St Paddy’s I need a wheat pack 😦
It’s a common feeling, I think! 🙂
Nice, very nice. If I may ask, what are you using to do your editing? I love the look. As in my “real” job, I’m a history museum director, I would love to be able to “age” some images like that for work.
Not at all!
I use Photoshop almost exclusively.
I scan scratched up film leaders to create dust/scratches as well as pieces of hand painted paper for ‘borders’. I almost always abuse adjustment layers, blending modes and the blur filter, as well. I find putting a soft vignette / burning-in the edges often helps, too.
If you ever have any specific questions please do ask – I’m happy to help if/when ever I can! 🙂
OK, gotcha – I finally broke down recently and bought Lightroom, so I’m still very much figuring it out!
Never used Lightroom – but I’ve heard good things.
I love Photoshop. I’ve been self-teaching myself for almost 10 years now, yet I’m proficient with only a small fraction of its capabilities. 🙂
I like the scratchy look – kind of wheaty.
I like the wheaty look – kind of scratchy
It is a bit wheaty, too…
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It is a bit scratchy…
🙂
I like it Robert. For some reason this shot made me think of the WPA photos of the thirties…maybe the work rural draws me that direction. Nice post-processing.
Thank you very much, Mr. J!
Ah, yes… the power of ‘rural’. Or is that the power of ‘cheese’? Either way, I guess…
🙂
Rural was a nice touch. Murder in the corn… Wasn’t there a movie about that? I was in rural Tasmania yesterday. I love getting out of town & being surrounded by farmland & cows & sheep & manure…
Hmmm… now that you mention it!
Smells like a nice vacation, eh?! 🙂
XOXO
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My wife’s parents live on a farm and everyone gives directions by saying turn at the barley field, if you’ve reached the alfalfa field you’ve gone too far, but they all look the same to me.
I can relate!
Fields… they’re a trip (or… something along those lines). 🙂
i think this one is my favorite so far…appeals more to the poet in me…grins…
very very good…