Farms
Farms
Preservation runs deep on Block Island, Rhode Island. Nearly half of the island is protected, conserved in perpetuity. Hundreds of priceless acres wind across the island and to the sea. From some fields, I can see the windmills that power the island, the island has the only offshore wind farm in the country. The conservancy land on my road were often farms, now fields that roll over hills and end at the shore. They are so open, that on clear days I can stand on a hill and see the mainland a dozen miles away, without a house in sight. I photograph the old farms through the seasons, through spring mists, summer barley fields to the russet fields of winter. The seasons change, the light changes and the land changes through the years. There is a sense of serenity, knowing how land and time will always change together.