It’s not always easy to photograph an object in a semi-urban environment.
On March 15, I had done some research to find locations to photograph and, obviously, I had noticed that barn. It is located near a residential neighborhoods as well as neighboring houses further down this road. I figure that the barn was isolated at the time! Once in Napierville, I visited the so-called barn but once there, it’s what was parked behind that caught my attention. So I went across the road to the house to ask permission to go on the field. Fortunately, I was wearing boots because even the anaemic winter we had turned the field into a mud bath!
Once behind the barn, I approached this “hay collector machine.” I wanted to use a wide angle to emphasize the machinery while extending the field behind. The choice of location was hard: there was this house on the left and a residential area on the right… Finally, I managed to find an angle that was a good compromise: I was barely 2 meters from the machinery. Despite everything, I had a barn in the neighboring field to the left and a house on the right. I had to make them disappear in post-production.
Given the present clouds, I could have done a long exposure and have long trails of clouds. Fortunately, they had a similar form!
