Exif data: NIKON D300, Focal Length: 46 mm, Aperture: f/5, Exposure: 1/800 sec, ISO Speed: 200, Flash: Not Fired
06/01/2010 at 22:05
Category: [landscape]  
38 comments
 

• Wow this is a great winter scene ;) I am getting chilly just looking at it right now ha - Great shot, thanks for sharing.
  John Masters @ 2010-01-06 22:09:09
• Looks cold but wonderful, and in a bit you may be able to skate there too. even if its not good for the farmers
  Ivar @ 2010-01-06 22:50:54
• I suspect the ice is now covered by snow. There's some corn around here that never got cut...too wet to pick.
  ordinaryimages @ 2010-01-06 23:35:59
• A gorgeous winter scene. I really like how the water, with it's frozen quality, still seems to have movement. Lovely image!
  martie @ 2010-01-06 23:39:01
• Reminds me of an Edward Hopper painting! Great tones and colors and......well, everything! :)
  Ken @ 2010-01-06 23:40:40
• Edward Hopper is right. And a brand new theme! I like it - goes very nice with todays image - a beautiful serene scene...
  Mahbubur Rahman @ 2010-01-07 00:23:02
• uh oh, rice shortage, not good.... makes for a sad picture then :(
  Elaine- @ 2010-01-07 00:35:49
• Beautiful view, excellent image with great light and colors! Happy New Year!
  Andrei Barbu @ 2010-01-07 00:40:36
• Beautiful winter scene, nice composition!
  Zing @ 2010-01-07 01:37:31
• i remember that post
  it is beautiful, but in a sad way, especially after reading the text
  yz @ 2010-01-07 02:28:51
• Not good for farmers but giving such a beautiful sight!
  Standley @ 2010-01-07 04:13:15
• Such a silkiness to this atmospheric image
  Peter Miller @ 2010-01-07 04:14:12
• Very Cold. love the situation . nice shot
  Joan Felix @ 2010-01-07 07:41:12
• Great spot you found!
  Robin @ 2010-01-07 09:36:55
• A fine documentary shot and appealing landscape in this image. I especially like the overall effect of a two-color image. Somehow these colors unify the shot. Very interesting about the flooding and its effect.
  don @ 2010-01-07 09:54:09
• Beautiful winter scene!
  Andy @ 2010-01-07 10:04:26
• Beautiful good photograph taken from view, bravo!
  THEYS @ 2010-01-07 10:50:08
• Tranquil winter scene...which I'm none too happy with at the moment (not your photo---winter). With wind chill it's dropping to near zero or below tonight/tomorrow AM...In Texas. I'm too Southern for this.
  Hess @ 2010-01-07 10:59:54
• A very nice winter scene. No very different from Hueston Woods.
  Nick @ 2010-01-07 11:40:40
• very beautiful place - I like the winter colors
  yiannis krikis @ 2010-01-07 11:45:01
• Looks pretty wet and cold there in AR.
  Andrés @ 2010-01-07 12:17:31
• I don't think I have ever seen a rice field. I feel bad for the farmers.
  Teri @ 2010-01-07 12:37:54
• I really love the colors and tones in this. Feels very tranquil, silent...hauntingly beautiful. But sad about the conditions. Farming is always hard, eh?
  sylvia cole @ 2010-01-07 12:44:11
• Fine - beneath the tranquil scenery I love that almost vintage coloring. If you wouldn't have told about this scenery being an agricultural area, I would have thought it's a flooded area of a river.
  Markus @ 2010-01-07 12:55:42
• Love the color tones, they bring a sense of sadness - the dark brush in the foreground, the flat land, the omnipresent ice. Makes me shiver!
  Claude @ 2010-01-07 13:11:02
• Hope things improve in 2010. I'm ready for spring.
  Terry H. @ 2010-01-07 13:27:41
• Perhaps a good place for some skating? Looks cold though :-)
  Frida @ 2010-01-07 14:57:38
• lovely half-tones colors!
  Still @ 2010-01-07 15:05:52
• Sherri, this is such a wonderful composition. The tones and colours bring out the detail in the foliage so nicely. I love the way the water is in motion, little waves.
  bluechameleon @ 2010-01-07 15:45:42
• nice soft colors. lovely.
  Otto K. @ 2010-01-07 17:13:16
• the weather's looking pretty bad over there too.. tsk3..
  rian @ 2010-01-07 18:25:39
• looks like power lines or the top of small bluff on the distant shore - beautiful lines what ever they are and they work so well with the wisp clouds in the sky. gorgeous colors here too.
  michele @ 2010-01-07 20:47:50
• Love how you matched the comment to the experience of the photo!
  Yvonne @ 2010-01-07 22:26:47
• Calm and meditative atmosphere. Light and tones are beautiful.
  Arnd @ 2010-01-08 15:00:55
• Lovely. My first impression when I saw this was how tranquil it looks.
  Erinn @ 2010-01-08 18:39:16
• Love the tones, beautiful shot.
  Ashish Sidapara @ 2010-01-09 11:01:21
• Interesting post about those farmers. This image has a bit of a sad tone because it used to be farmland. But, again a great moody scene of winter here.
  javga @ 2010-01-10 07:28:52
• Sobre et très très beau !
  JMS* @ 2010-01-11 04:36:01

Jackson County, Arkansas

I drove to Jackson County this week to see if the farmers had burned the rice fields. Some of you many recall when I posted several images in the fall of 2008 of the burning rice fields. One of those images was [After the harvest...]

In 2009 Arkansas broke a record for the most rainfall in one year since 1888. From what I could tell not only were the farmers unable to burn the rice fields, but some of the fields looked as if they weren't harvested.

The field in this image was harvested, but not burned and it's flooded and covered with a thin layer of ice. This isn't good for the farmers.


The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
- John F. Kennedy, (35th President of the United States)