Kyle Venhousen Riverside County Farm Bureau
Venhousen works as a sales representative for an herb grower in the Coachella Valley. The photography enthusiast was out walking the fields one day when he saw this potential for a good shot. “I’m always looking for new angles and perspectives to make a photo interesting. So, for this one, I was lying down in the dirt,” he said. “Water is such a precious resource out here in our desert where we live and where we farm. So, I wanted to capture that in the photo.”
Terrence Wilson Napa County Farm Bureau
Wilson’s family has had a vineyard in Napa since the early 1970s. He captured this image one morning after a light overnight rain. “It’s a beautiful area. It was very fresh, bright and clear, the sky was really blue, there were some puffy white clouds and some mist just out of the shot to the right,” he said. He noted that a little over a year before he took this photo, this entire landscape, except for the vineyard itself, had burned and was completely black.
Hannah Gill Tulare County Farm Bureau
Longtime cattle ranchers, the Gill family suddenly had nine puppies to take care of after their border collie had a litter. One day, Hannah Gill and her husband were cleaning them off and needed a place to put the clean puppies to separate them from the others. With no container handy, they improvised: “We just started taking shoes off,” Gill said. “So, we put this one in my boot and then I looked over and the boot had a cute little heart shape—and I knew I had to take a picture of it.”
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