Welcome to my blog

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Published: September 17, 2009

Welcome to my blog called, “Crop of photos.”

Before I go any further let me first thank WP Editor, Barb Glen for the invite and opportunity to converse with you about a topic important to me: photography, more specifically photojournalism.

Since we are an agricultural content-based newspaper, Crop of photos seems an appropriate name.

It’s my hope and aim that this blog will be a forum to open doors, let down walls (for you and me) into the world of photography and beyond. Will it relate to agriculture – perhaps, perhaps not.

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As government makes necessary cuts to spending, what can be reduced or restructured in the budgets for agriculture?

Please comment and offer up your suggestions and ideas you would like to know more about and discuss. I do not pretend to be the expert in the room, however my research skills are decent.

The photography field is wide open for conversation and polite argument. We’ll discuss the technical side of making photos, current affairs, books and reviews and so much more. I enjoy looking at the works of others and sharing what I’m working on.

Crop of Photos will be a showcase for your photos too. Often, when I travel, people have been comfortable enough to get out their family albums and tell me their stories. I love this on so many levels.

When a house is on fire, besides family and pets, what’s the first thing people try to save?

Here’s a couple photographs I made this past spring. I like them because they’re moments, slices of life; real people doing real things.

Brock, Robert and Jeremy Simonson load the components of an irrigation system onto a flat deck trailer near Osler, Sask. (WP photo by William DeKay)

Surrounded by horse tack, Lucy, a two-year-old Beagle, receives a hug from Dave Elliott after morning chores were completed at the family ranch northeast of Maple Creek, Sask. (WP photo by William DeKay)

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