John Phelan Photography

Agriculture Photography

Agriculture photography that covers planting, seeding, fertilization, chemical application, irrigation, crop harvesting, transportation, storage, weather, distribution, farm land, farm equipment, farm buildings, agricultural associations and agricultural publications.  

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  • The Buy Rite seed sales and seed treating facility
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  • Wheat harvest in the Nebraska Panhandle.
  • Wheat harvest in the Nebraska Panhandle.
  • A horizontal picture of a man's dirty and grease covered hands resting on a worn blue tractor part called a 3-point draft link hitch as he takes a break from working on his farm equipment.
  • In this vertical picture an Hispanic day laborer on his hands and knees is pulling weeds from a row crop field under a cloudy sky. He is large in the frame and smiles with a sense of pride towards the camera from beneath a white straw full brim hat and he wears a plaid unbuttoned shirt and blue jeans. His hands and shirt sleeves are covered in black soil. In the distant background a new housing development is being built.
  • A horizontal image shows an agricultural scene photographed with only the light from a full moon. At the bottom right of the frame a dirt and gravel road recedes in perspective to the distant horizon with a corn field on the right and an uncut wheat field on the left that also recedes towards the edge of the sky. Almost 2/3rds of the upper frame are a deep blue sky with a handful of stars and white cumulus clouds. In the center of the horizon line a burst of bright light from a storm's lightning strike can be seen.
  • In this vertical picture of wheat being harvested near Potter, Nebraska, a blue sky with a few cumulus clouds near the horizon makes up half of the image. The bottom half of the picture is the wheat field with three John Deere combines cutting wheat as they move forward towards the camera.
  • Vertical picture of the western Nebraska wheat harvest near the town of Potter. The top of the image is a blue sky with a few clouds near the horizon line. Three John Deere combines mow wheat coming towards the camera on the left of the frame. The bottom right of the frame shows cut wheat stubble and a shadow of the photographer who is standing on the roof of a John Deere tractor for an aerial perspective of the scene.
  • A vertical picture shows a west Texas farmer fueling his green John Deere tractor from a tank on a trailer. The top third of the image is blue sky with white puffy cumulus clouds floating above a petrochemical refinery. The bottom of the picture is red dirt soil that is being tilled by the farmer.
  • A horizontal image of a wheat field waiting to be harvested in the bottom 3/4s of the frame support a tree line and country road that is just out of site as a farm truck heads to the combines to pick up a fresh load of grain. The sky silhouettes two power line towers and lines that fill the top left corner of the frame with a muted blue evening sky.
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  • Vertical picture of farmer's blurred arm and shovel head reaching into the corner of a grain truck to scrape out the last of this load from the harvest for the weigh in.
  • A horizontal picture of corn fields in late afternoon sun. A gravel road cuts through the fields at an angle from right to left and a car is near the center of the road heading to the left as the tires churn up dust.
  • This horizontal picture shows a combine harvesting corn late at night. The combine is moving from right to left and the work lights create an eerie almost surreal feel of a monster on the move. The bottom quarter of the image is corn stubble from the previous pass. The corn stalks in front of the John Deere stand tall and frozen by the light waiting for the corn head to take them down.
  • Horizontal picture of a construction scene of Behlen grain bins. The overall scene has a monochromatic feel of gray colors and tones. The grain bins on the left appear finished while the bins on the right still need the leg and tubes. The sky has a stormy dark gray look and feel. The red Behlen name and logo stand out from the gray overall feel.
  • A horizontal picture taken from a small plane gives a strong graphic design to a road and a field that has just been harvested. The country paved road just cuts through the bottom left of the picture at a strong angle. The green grass that parallels the roadway contrast nicely with the red of the combine and yellow grain and brown of the field. The farmer can be seen throwing a long shadow as he walks away from the combine that is near the top left corner of the frame.
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  • A horizontal picture of an old John Deere tractor, model 2640, sits large in the left half of the frame next to the dirty worn wooden boards that make up the right half of the image. The green tractor, with it's distinctive yellow band, is lit up brightly by an early morning sun.
  • This wide angle, aerial perspective vertical picture shows a tractor towards the bottom of the frame pulling two filled carts of soybeans. The tractor and carts are stopped right next to one of the elevator's storage bins that takes up most of the right hand side of the frame. Beyond the two carts another tractor is pulling a single cart towards a different elevator in the background underneath a blue sky.
  • A vertical, forced perspective, view looks almost straight up the side of the {quote}Old Elevator{quote} in the bottom half of the frame. The {quote}Old Elevator{quote} sign that sits just above the drive through entrance has a dimly lit light bulb in a dirty reflector. The top left part of the frame shows a newer, large grain silo or bin. The dark blue sky at the top right of the frame has a couple of vapor trails from passing jet planes.
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  • In this horizontal picture water droplets sprayed from a center pivot irrigation device appear to glow from late afternoon sun back light. The center pivot moves in a circle around the field and large at the left side of the frame and tapers off in to the distance at the right side of the frame. There are some dark silhouetted hills in the background and a dark gray cloudy sky above the field of wheat.
  • A vertical picture has several layers. Starting at the bottom, and working upwards, there is a, slightly out of focus small garden, with a green bush at the left bottom corner, that has brown soil that has recently been turned with a wire fence surrounding the garden. Above that is a small pond that goes out of the left and right side of the frame and reflects a blue sky, a tree line and a tractor that is cutting green grass, for hay. The next section up shows the grassy land and gentle hill side that the tractor is moving across from left to right as it cuts and piles the grass. At the top is a rich blue sky and a deep green tree line with one tree at the center, from left to right that has no leaves on the tree.
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  • In this vertical picture two men, in the center of the image, kneel in a field of growing radishes with strong leading lines as they look at the crop. A tractor at the top of the frame cultivates the muck that the radishes are grown in that is ideal for their short growth cycle in the Anoka, Minnesote area.
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