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Noir Cornfield

2008.07.27

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

It rained and rained yesterday. Today the sun made a brief appearance and then the thunderstorms started up. I intended to photograph the corn field's green stalks against a deep blue sky. Instead the sky turned gray and washed out.

The longer I stared at the field the more it morphed into a forbidding place. So why not pursue that?

I imagined the corn stalks in a Kafka story—

19 Comments

wow, the atmosphere is great!! well great overall really

DisturbedShorty · 2008-07-27: 18:31

The corn stalks came to life!!!

cobaltbutterfly · 2008-07-27: 18:38

Great job, interesting to see something so normally vibrant in bl and wh- creative!~ R

urmysunshine · 2008-07-27: 19:11

The above photos are the reason I love your blog. You continue to take a simple gray day and turn it into a work of art. Thanks for always show me something different.

Queen911 · 2008-07-27: 20:44

great set ........very good B&W !!!!!!!

vterezia · 2008-07-28: 00:54

your images + Kafka + Diane Arbus + noir = menace! well done!

jagungal · 2008-07-28: 01:52

Though the weather was uncooperative, you did a nice job.

leocheung · 2008-07-28: 08:14

:):):)

ronin53 · 2008-07-28: 09:13

I'm glad that you took these (and hope that there's more to follow! ;-) because I think they superbly express the feeling you had whenyou were there.

Very well done B&W. I really love the contrasts.

Madoc · 2008-07-28: 09:39

Nice B & W :))

KC727 · 2008-07-28: 10:00

flipado · 2008-07-28: 10:59

original! well done and mysterious!

tomie · 2008-07-28: 14:26

I drive by corn fields every day here in IA. We are known for our corn. But I've never seen a corn field in b/w. It does look rather scary. Haven't read Kafka in years - since that existentialism class in college - but it took me immediately to thoughts of Stephen King's "Children of the Corn" even before you mentioned Kafka. Iowa corn fields or colored corn fields don't seem to do that ;-)

I liked that evergreen branch in the road. Oh, and I wondered why there was a road through the corn to begin with!

oldbabe · 2008-07-28: 19:56