Located in Eastern Washington, the Palouse region is home to a world-renowned wheat landscape. This area is famous for its vast, wave-like, rolling hills, making it a pilgrimage site for countless landscape photography enthusiasts.
I had long planned a visit, and finally made the trip in May. At this time, the fields were in their most vital, “youthful” stage, displaying a deep, concentrated green (though I heard that by early August, during the harvest, the landscape transforms into a sea of flowing gold, a completely different scene).
Nature is undoubtedly a great oil painter. Using light and shadow as its brush, it perfectly harmonizes the emerald green of the wheat, the ochre base color of the soil, and the surrounding vegetation’s tones, outlining the earth’s gentle yet precise geometric curves.
On this land brimming with vitality, every capture feels like the discovery of a masterpiece born of nature. This unique combination of color and line truly makes the Palouse the ultimate paradise for photographers.
In early August：
