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A client that knew this spot well once asked me why her picture of this tree didn't look like mine.

I explained to her what went into this image.

This particular image was actually three years in the making. When I first saw the lone live oak in the middle of a cotton field I was in between cameras and the cotton had been harvested before I got my new one.

I went back the following year but the farmer had planted soybeans that year.

The following year I saw that he had planted cotton and made plans to shoot the scene a week or two before they harvested it. I made the two hour trip to the field only to find that this field was the first to be harvested that year and it had been done the day before I arrived.

Last year I wasn't going to let that happen, I saw that cotton had been planted so I drove by every single week to check on the progress of the cotton field. When the cotton started to pop I monitored it closely until the whole field was...

A little about me: I was raised a military brat and lived all around the US growing up. I went to Auburn University then joined the Air Force upon graduation. In the Air Force I flew B-1B bombers, T-37 and T-38 trainers, KC-135s and taught counter terrorism CQC defensive tactics for aircrews. I retired from the Air National Guard after 21 years of service. I was also an airline pilot for Midwest Airlines where I flew DC-9s, MD-80s and Boing 717s. All of Midwest's flight-crews were outsourced in 2008 and now I make my living selling art and various other jobs in the Dallas Fort Worth area. A little about art: Like many photographers I received my first camera as a gift at some ridiculously young age. Like many I am passionate...