I think I am just about far enough away from the town to show it off in its best light (or at least its least worse light). The image is about scale – east of the Cascade mountains, once you climb out of the Columbia River valley you are in the big wheat country of the Palouse
Steptoe Bute in the Palouse is a major magnet for photographers in early June as the various cereal crops are at different stages of development and hence different colours and textures. I liked the sinuous line between the “fields“ and the gradation from dark green to the reds in the distance
A more traditional Palouse image – rolling fields disappearing into the distance with the low light picking out the undulations in the ground. I had spotted this view on a previous trip with one of the few major fence-lines providing some detail
