PHOTOGRAPH INFO

Another photo from Monday evening when the corn was being planted.

Post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D and the Canon 180mm f3.5L lens at 180mm, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/250s, aperture f/6.3. Curves, color balancing.

Thank you for visiting Durham Township!

-- Kathleen

You've captured a pause in the motion of youth....amused with the bag tie, the boots, the scar on the elbow, speaks of much activity. It's good to remember those days.

Kids find so many ways to occupy there time, who need fancy expensive video games?

This is just a wonderful photo.

Catching him with the "seed corn" label is a great link to youth and potential.

What a cool shot. Great composition.

Unraveling life's mysteries, one at a time.....and how the heck those bags pop open when you pull the string is definitely in that category. (God help the poor soul who pulls at the wrong end of the string!) In the absence of clouds, the blue and white "seed corn" bag could be "cut and pasted" across the top of the frame......them be his walkin' boots ma'am?

How "anyone" caught that moment with those colors and composition.........not a mystery......so thank you.

Love this shot, Kathleen. Great capture.

I really like this image. It's such a simple, candid shot of a boy being a boy, yet at the same time, it's fascinating and interesting to look at. It's rather Norman Rockwell-esque in it's depiction of life on an American farm. The colors are great and the picture is tack-sharp (I can almost read the planting instructions on the back of the bag!). But most of all, I love how the subject is backlit, with the highlights in the boy's hair and how the label he is holding is lit up by the sun. Such a wonderful eye, Kathleen, for something simple yet beautiful. It's a wonderful composition.

great comp. wonderful moment.

I think my favorite part about this photo is how the bag of seed is about as large as he is.

Great capture moment!

Your picture has magic.
Greetings, Mariana Cuentos

i am first time in your blog i like it and your photos

A young boy sitting on brightly colored bags of life and hope that will affect so many, life in the rising sun, he learns the neat trick of opening a bag by pulling on the sewn in string. You hear the string pull through the paper bag with the plastic lining rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp and off comes the top. What a neat trick "Mom, look what I did"

and out comes the smell and the dust of the corn.
1 kernel of corn. Holds so much promise, holds so much life but it takes a combination of so many things for that 1 kernel to live long enough to produce the ears of corn that are its purpose. WIll it be spilled on the ground? hung up in the planter? Left in the folds of the bag? planted too shallow or too deep? Get enough water or too much? Be dug up by passing birds or squirrels? or even if it does sprout, will it survive the heat, the dryness? Will the silk worms eat the kernels? Will the farmer come and harvest it or be paid to leave it in the fields? Will he make any money on the sale so that he can continue his profession or have enough to feed his livestock? WIll it end up in the grocery store or in the next colored bag, laying in a field, waiting for the young boy in the boots to come along?

WHo knows, but until the young boy opens the bag,rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp and shows his mom the neat trick, None of it really matters.