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Hard Cider

            I've always loved the contextual aspect of scarecrows. The idea of an effigy set out away from the mainstream. Standing guard over a field of crops, day and night, regardless of weather. I used to look for these things as a kid and always found them disturbing. Part of this was the surprise in discovering them. They would often pop up, seemingly out of nowhere. In my fertile youthful imagination, they had the ability to come to life. And for me anyway, it was not to serve as a playmate but to run me down and swallow me up. Deep down I knew this was not possible, but that did nothing to dispel the distrust and uneasiness. It lingers even to this day. It meshes so well with the eeriness I sense around cornfields in particular. The inability to see beyond the first couple of rows is disturbing. And the rustling of stalks, pushed  by even the slightest breeze (or who know what) is unsettling at best. Like many fearful things, the terror is greatly enhanced by one's own imagination. My vision here was to bring life to those nightmarish thoughts. The specter of a dark witch towering above the cornstalks, swaying about in the wind is jolting. Witches and scarecrows hark back to the Wizard of Oz. In the film, one was benign while the other evil. Combining them into one, evil wins.
   

Taken on: October 26, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/8.0, 1/6 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Lens:	18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.167 sec (1/6)
Focal Length:	18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Macintosh)
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