The Northern California counties of Marin and Sonoma exhibit a century and a half of agrarian history in dozens of working farms. Sun, wind, fog, and gravity
For forty-five years I’ve travelled our rural roads, watching transitions - usually slow, as in the weathering of a fence, but sometimes sudden when, for example, a silo collapses in a storm.
Few of these old farm structures retain economic value to their owners. Yet I’ve
seldom met a farmer who is blind to the beauty of that very decay which he battles daily.
I look for striking photographic images where the work of man and nature gently merge over time - a lichen coated shed, a broken-backed barn, a weathered redwood gate, a rusted farm implement.
I record these farmscapes on traditional large format film to capture their naturally exquisite detail and color. I want the image you see to match what nature shared with me - nothing more nor less.
Please see my book available on the Web from Blurb.com at Farmescape Notebook: Marin & Sonoma 2005 - 2011.