Field Of Hope And Dreams – Archival Pigment Print

I associate open fields with the emotion of freedom. I’m drawn not only to their inherent beauty, there’s a feeling of peace and tranquility that I often get from walking in one. In this image, I did a fair amount of manipulation to get the emotional effect of what I felt. I wanted the simplicity of diffuse light descending like particles upon the golden field. The lone stalk standing tall in the center, to me, is a metaphor to the forces of nature; a constant battle of competition, of survival  — the stalk represents the will to thrive against all the odds. This image gallery contains an unedited version just for comparison purposes.