of California Photographers capture beauty and grit of state’s farms and ranches
Story by Judy Farah
A little girl watches her father rope cattle. A young woman captures a sunset view of her twin sister on horseback. A curious cat hides in a vintage rice harvester. A black cow stops by for a visit, dirt covers boots after a long day working the fields and a foreboding wildfire cloud moves in over crops. Amateur photographers captured these images and more for the annual California Farm Bureau Photo Contest, themed 2020 Visions, which encouraged participants to communicate their personal perspective of agriculture in California. The top adult winners took home cash prizes and so did the young Budding Artists, in a category sponsored by the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. All the winners shared something else: seeing their photos in print.
Grand Prize
Hannah Gill, Tulare County The Gills have been ranchers in Tulare County for five generations. Hannah Gill said her 2-year-old daughter, Hayden, likes to watch her father, Levi, rope cattle with friend Ralph Garcia on the family ranch in Exeter. Gill saw Hayden watching intently and snapped this Grand Prize-winning photo that captures family ranch life. “She was so excited to watch Dad on a horse,” Gill said. “She loves it. She loves the cows, loves the horses.”
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