The Landscaper

Pin Oak Road near I-55
Photograph by Tom Atwood

This is the spot, exactly, where I was standing in the fall of 2009, when the farmer who owns this property stopped in his pickup truck to ask what I was doing. He had seen me driving up and down the roads around here lately, and just wondered? Why was I taking pictures of his house? I told him I was shooting a series of landscape pictures in Madison County for a photo exhibit. The farmer seemed perplexed, but said he had also done some landscaping work, on the side, for homeowners in the area. Maybe it was impossible for him to think of his own home, and the land that he sees and works day after day, as art?

Shutter: 1/80; Aperture: f/6.3; ISO: 100; Focal length: 18 mm