It isn’t often that a photograph nearly five months old winds up on our front page. This week is an exception.
A Time to Grow is the title of the photo feature on pages 70 through 73 and the front page image seemed an appropriate introduction. It’s a young farmer looking forward to the season ahead and toward a setting sun.
Back in April, we decided to forego our usual harvest photo spread in favour of a package featuring agricultural and rural life throughout the growing season and from Ontario to British Columbia.
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Our staff travels the globe to bring readers the stories and images that we feel will inform, inspire and sometimes entertain.
We hope that our readers find this photo feature akin to looking in a mirror that reflects the rest of the farming world.
When you peer into our pages, we hope you see stories and images of others whose days and experiences look a lot like your own – whether in the province next door or halfway around the world.
Often Western Producer staffers capture images that stand alone in the paper, without a story but they contain a news-style caption that gives information about the moment the image was made: who, what, where, when and sometimes why.
In A Time to Grow, many images carry lengthier captions, the better to place the image in the context of the bigger agricultural picture.
Our intention with this project is to add additional value to the images.
The Producer has 22 editorial staff members. Each week, 15 of these professionals take photographs to accompany stories or to stand alone in the paper.
All 22 editorial team members handle images and 11 perform editing duties each week.
As well, this year our publisher contributed news photos to the paper when he snapped photos of a grain train derailment he happened across.
Throughout the course of this season, many of the best images intended for the project found their way into the pages of the Producer.
Sometimes, we just can’t wait to get the good stuff into print.
All the photos in our photo feature were shot while our people were working on other editorial assignments.
Then they were edited and arranged for your perusal.
We hope you enjoy these photos as much as we enjoyed finding them.
To everything there is a season.
