Fields aligned

Fields aligned. 2020.

The paddocks fall into order, three horizontal bands of colour laid one on top of the other. The canola is a solid block of yellow, almost buzzing, held back by the thin dirt road that cuts across the frame. Above it, the line of flowering trees becomes punctuation, bright white commas marking the divide before the eye climbs into the darker green of the upper field. I was drawn to how the chaos of a working landscape briefly reads as something printed or painted, a simple barcode of colour and rhythm, before you recognise flowers, tyre tracks and the slow curve of the land underneath.

24 mm • f/4.0 • 1/400 sec • ISO 100