Field Of Hope And Dreams

I associate open fields with the emotion of freedom. I’m drawn not only to their inherent beauty, there’s a feeling of peace and tranquility that I often get from walking in one. In this image, I did a fair amount of manipulation to get the emotional effect of what I felt. I wanted the simplicity of diffuse light descending like particles upon the golden field. The lone stalk standing tall in the center, to me, is a metaphor to the forces of nature; a constant battle of competition, of survival  — the stalk represents the will to thrive against the odds.

Every photograph is to a degree a manipulation, even if it’s taken straight out of the camera and viewed on a screen. The very act of taking a picture is to take but a chosen piece of a whole. To get to a final print, of its very nature, there’s so many variables just the printing inks and printers alone is a highly subjective journey. It can also become a truly rewarding journey for photographer and viewer alike. This image gallery contains an unedited version just for comparison purposes

About My Prints:  I use only Canon Lucia inks for printing which are archival.  In addition to the printing papers, any future matting and framing materials used, if archival too (with reasonable care), will last 100 years or more. The papers I use almost exclusively are Canson Fine Art Papers and also do not contain brightening agents that decay over time.  For this image, the paper I used is the Canson Baryta Prestige 11, an absolutely beautiful, wide tonal range paper.