Pictures of Fog and the Depleted Land

flat-field fog

used-field fog

field-corn fog

These fog-field images were taken with no motive except that I liked the fog and the light combination and the fact that the lines or rows in these cases were leading into the light.  While editing these foggy images I can see a lot more meaning in them.  

The ethereal brightness of the fog could signify the unknown future of the farming industry here in the USA.  Terry Evans expresses it as a "linear uniformity, leading to exhaustion".  The root system of a cornfield is very shallow.  We know growing the same crops year after year depletes the soil of nutrients.  Are we on our way to a barren wasteland, how long will it take?  

The heart of America, the work of the farmer, is supposedly what supports the American people.  These fog-field photographs could also signify the movement from dependency on the North American farmer to a dependency on global import for our citizens’ food. 

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  "The prairie expresses a cyclical or spiral system of growth based on diversity and self-renewel, wile the wheat filed expresses a linear system of growth based on uniformity and leading to exhaustion."  Read the rest of Terry Evans' statement and check out more of his work at ---- http://terryevansphotography.com/index.php?/projects/prairie-imagesstatement/