Finished, Right?

At the moment, perhaps. Yet, as my university journalism professor once said, the story never really stops. Just because you finished documenting a certain facet of the natural ebb and flow of drought years and wet years in a land highly dependent upon agriculture, that doesn’t mean the next drought will look the same as the last. Each day, month, year, decade, or century brings something new and different to the table, and even as we close the book on a particular story, opportunities for the next one spring forward. As a visual storyteller, you’ve positioned yourself to receive them.

An ominous thunderstorm rolls over wheat pastures near Shallowater, Texas, bringing not only a large amount of moisture but some rather interesting ambient light conditions at the close of the day (above).

Canon 5D Mk II, 17mm, 1/125 sec., f/5.6, ISO 400