This public domain photograph of farmland is a great addition to any stock photo collection.
This is a public domain photograph from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection in the Library of Congress.
This is a very nice stock image of farmland in the Mt. Sneffels area of Ouray County, Colorado. In the distance, a range of gray rocky mountains stands out against a clear blue sky. In the foreground, a mix of scrubby farmland recedes into forested rolling hills.
This photo was taken by Russell Lee, who was working as an agent of the United States government. Because this image was taken by an employee of the federal government, it is in the public domain.
61 megabyte TIFF. Hosted at the Library of Congress.
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03.16.10
The image is is so attractive that it cannot be expressed by mere words. It is an wonderful art of photography. Needless to say that it is a masterpiece of Art. When a man looks at it , he gets stunned by the Gods,”creation. He would be thankful to the Almighty for His creation of such a wonderful landscape besides he would wonder about the talents of the photogrpher who presented it to the eyes of others. A silent valley ,presented with sense of beauty Hats off to the photographer.
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03.20.10
This color photograph appears to be an older one taken of a mountain range out West, possibly in Colorado. There is no snow on the peaks, so I assume it is mid to late summer. The mountains stand over dry farmland, with bales of hay in the fields ready for winter. The sky is clear blue, with only a couple clouds visible. It’s clear enough to call it a cloudless sky. It looks like the type of scene you would see in an old Western movie and I keep expecting to see a group of horseback riders to gallop by. No farmhouses or barns are visible. There are a few trees in the foreground, but otherwise the valley is mostly grass and farm land. It looks like over to the left is a now dry swamp with barren cattails stalks jutting up. I bet there are tumbleweeds rolling around whenever the wind blows. Most pictures of mountains include a body of water, but there doesn’t appear to be any in this one. There are no fences anywhere, so either the animals are free-range or in separate fields. There must be some cows somewhere to eat up all that hay over the winter!
03.27.10
This is the picture of the farmland in Colorado.The image shows out a beautiful landscape with clear skies,bushes standing almost upright and trees which are seen on the sides of the image add a peculiar beauty to the image.The mountains and hills which lie as a background to the image is describing me the beauty of mother nature.the lush greenery displayed in this image is the main reason for the attraction of this image.The ups and downs covered with short grass ,The concave mountains,all these show the true beauty of nature.The skies at the horizon are given a very light tone,moving from the horizon to the top of the image the tone becomes dark which gives an originality to the image.This image has a proper touch of shading,the color and shading of the mountains,shadow of the trees prove that this image has a proper tone and shading.This picture has a unique type of texture;until the tip of the hills the image follows the same type and then the texture is changed with definite adjustment in all the aspects;tone,hue,color.so the viewer can,t easily tell that the texture has changed. This image pictures out nature and its beauty to the very extent.In a world like this places such as the farmland in Colorado are becoming rare.Any person who will see this image will definitely have a thought about nature and its greenery.