Special Projects

COVID-19

 Prairies

I traveled 3000km across the prairies. I never would have imagined this being a trip that would celebrate this milestone birthday, but it quickly became exactly that. This work assignment/project came up during the week leading into my 50th, canceling other plans. Things don’t always go as planned and I’ve lived my life rolling with it. What started out as a work assignment, turned out to be an experience and journey of a lifetime, and I have traveled across the world for assignments, but something about this trip in our own backyard was so special. In those thousands of miles traveled, we drove with no radio or wifi, just our long conversations, wide open roads, and massive fields. With no deadlines in play, no family to answer to, and some of the COVID restrictions lifted, it really revitalized and re-energized my passion for photography. Open roads, vast fields, flat lands, abundant wildlife, farmland and farmers, abandoned barns, grand silos and unbelievably impressive sunsets...these images speak to me in a way that is slow and unimposing. They reveal this silent gaze upon things, full of tenderness and vulnerability. Photographing these farmers, their land and their crops was an experience of a lifetime. A planned trip might not have turned out to be as spectacular as this one to the prairies. Thank you AGI, https://www.aggrowth.com/ for making this happen, this is 50!