Magnificent! Your piece captures a very serene moment. You’ve caught imagery that feels European, i.e. Dutch or Belgian landscapes. But no, your magic is Long Island. Almost the Long Island of yesteryear. I’m enthralled.
I guess the obvious answer is they must have been excited at the idea of being able to document what they were seeing in that brand new way. Going deeper, I don’t know, but their aesthetic and the way they saw the world was different. Their relationship to the land was different. I guess that’s what you’re talking about.
Magnificent! Your piece captures a very serene moment. You’ve caught imagery that feels European, i.e. Dutch or Belgian landscapes. But no, your magic is Long Island. Almost the Long Island of yesteryear. I’m enthralled.
Thanks Ed. I don’t know if Whitman would recognize the place anymore but maybe just enough got saved for our imaginations
Fields of fallow stubble…..crunchy, yet soft…..
Big like for that description. 🙂
I’m trying to up my description game. 😉
Another evocative title and a timeless image.
Thanks so much Lynn. Sometimes I wonder what the earliest landscape photographers felt before photography had much of a past.
I guess the obvious answer is they must have been excited at the idea of being able to document what they were seeing in that brand new way. Going deeper, I don’t know, but their aesthetic and the way they saw the world was different. Their relationship to the land was different. I guess that’s what you’re talking about.
Great response, Lynn. That’s a lot to think about.