Day 1: Old Grain Silos
As a child I pretended that the grain silos that dotted the Kansas landscape were not full of food from the harvest, but were actually rockets full of volatile fuel, each in various stages of construction. In the realm of my imagination, Kansas was the center for aerospace technology, and not merely a state focused in agriculture. After all, the state motto is “Ad astra per aspera.” Latin for “To the stars through difficulty.” That seemed fitting for my imaginary Kansas than it ever did for the real one.
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The contrast is so strong this looks like a painting, rather than a photograph. It almost makes the silo look like it’s holding up the sky.
Ah, you started this project on your birthday, didn’t you? … which you share with Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke and Bill Hicks.
I love this photo. What did you do to get these colors, this look? Are you going to share your secrets?
As I say in a later photo: AHHHH!!
This is surreal, almost post apocalyptic. I want to get into your brain and steal (well, I wouldn’t steal, I’d just copy and paste into my own brain) your talent and your post-production secrets.