If photographer Mike Drew had gone out two weeks earlier to document this year\u0027s harvest, he figured, it would have yielded more photos.
Especially at this time of year.
There were pelicans there and several blue herons, too. Over in the deeper part of the lake in an area sheltered from the wind, a hundred or so Franklin’s gulls were hunting bugs on the water. Half a dozen harriers patrolled the shoreline looking for prey. Which was part of the reason I’d waited to come out this way. Even though I was a bit surprised at how ripe all the crops were, I was pretty certain I’d find at least some of them being taken off. But no, I didn’t. Between Nanton and Carmangay, I saw not a single combine working in a field.Article contentYeah, I know, I’m maybe a little too enamoured of these patches of alkali and dry algae but I just find them so fascinating. Especially when I’m looking down on them.
There was a lone cow grazing on the native prairie by the reservoir and a little cottontail that posed for me close to the dam. The lake was like a mirror, the wind from earlier in the day now completely still, and I could make out a trio of cormorants flying low along its surface though they were barely visible through the smoke that had settled into the valley.
Bright green plants contrast with red samphire at a dry slough east of Carmangay on Tuesday, Aug. 29.An ant navigates a windblown sunflower near Travers Reservoir east of Carmangay on Tuesday, Aug. 29.I could have just parked and sweated there in the heat until the sun went down but one of the reasons that I’d headed out late in the day — besides the crops and combines — was because I wanted to shoot the moonrise.
From a few metres up, the crop looked pretty dire and the combines didn’t have much to work with. I love to see dried-up sloughs. Don’t much like seeing dried-up fields.Mike Drew/Postmedia
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