Grassy Knoll

Long time Shawn, good to see you posting again.

ajmiller said:

Long time Shawn, good to see you posting again.

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Thanks! I've been checking in here and there the last year or so but not as much as I'd like.

I was looking through some of my older image posts and realized I used to write a bit more about the making of the image I was presenting.

I was early to pick up my wife from the hospital where she works and decided to take a walk around the university across the street. They were finishing up a rather large construction project in the back field and that's where this "unnatural" grassy knoll sat. I was immediately taken with the movement of the grasses and how thay related to both the tree line and clouds in the background. There was a small flock of geese making a considerable amount of noise just on the other side of this hill, so imagine that as the soundtrack! Only a couple of weeks later most of the hill had been removed and there was a large backhoe parked on top of what bare earth remained. If photography has taught me anything these last 26 years, it's been the ephemeral nature of life and "beauty"...

Wow, what an image. A symphony in wind and grass and the composition is superb.