Development: Pyro, Normal
Printed on: Ilford MGIV, fiber, glossy
Selenium toned, silver gelatin

    On my way home from a high school state track meet in Cheney, I spotted some nice clouds over Creston Butte. I spent several lazy, warm hours photographing this field and a couple others as clouds came and went.

A very high contrast filter (red) was used as much to make the clouds pop out of the sky as it was to create some contrast in the field. A light meter showed little variation between tilled and untilled soil.

Photographer Don Kirby, a friend, often used Tech Pan film (discontinued now) to get the maximum separation in tones. His photographs of wheat fields appeared in LensWork magazine, issue No. 33, Jan. - Feb., 2001.