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Palouse 15 Finishing Palouse with a week of Aerials 

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Palouse 14 Finishing Palouse with a week of Aerials 

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Palouse 13 Finishing Palouse with a week of Aerials 

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Palouse 12 Finishing Palouse with a week of Aerials 

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Palouse 11 Finishing Palouse with a week of Aerials 

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Palouse 10  What I think is a limestone process works and silo in Northern Washington State

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Palouse 09 Grain Silo Magic (actually in The Palouse today)

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Palouse 08 Addy Rescue Mission (again not in palouse but more north in washington state)

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Palouse 07 another barn actually in montana but same trip… (this weeks posts are black and white buildings)

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Palouse 06 Barn in a field and sky (this weeks posts are black and white buildings)

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Palouse 05 Dusk Dust from the many busy trucks that shared the maze of little roads with us. Harvesting seems a community effort with a mix of local farmers and contractors moving from farm to farm. I was told by locals that three rotations are used - an autumn sown crop that survives the winter to get a head start on the weeds, a spring sown crop and a fallow year. As well as wheat lentils and beans are harvested. I got to ride in a harvester with a young man who was a timber cutter in Canada the rest of the year.

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Palouse 04

The peculiar and picturesque silt dunes which characterize the Palouse Prairie were formed during the ice ages (Alt and Hyndman 1989). Blown in from the glacial outwash plains to the west and south, the Palouse hills consist of more or less random humps and hollows. The steepest slopes, which may reach 50% slope, face the northeast. The highly productive loess ranges from 5 to 130 cm deep.^[8] Large areas of level land are rare. wikepedia

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Palouse 03 Rendezvous 

As you can see we had the option of a flight. Wonderful to be the only passenger in a cessna which had high wings and an opening window  AND  a pilot with lots of military experience who was very happy to fly close to the ground for me.

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Palouse 02

During the workshop we started and finished each day with dawn and dusk ‘shoots’. The 5 white vans became familiar to locals who were very welcoming of us. We were often greeted with ‘so your that group of photographers….” so I guess the gossip ‘net’ was working like all country regions.

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Palouse 01 Harvester from above. 

This series is for the most part images from The Palouse. 

The Palouse is a region of the northwestern United States, encompassing parts of southeastern Washington, north central Idaho and, in some definitions, extending south into northeast Oregon. It is a major agricultural area, primarily producing wheat and legumes. Situated about 160 miles (250 kilometers) north of the Oregon Trail, the region experienced rapid growth in the late 19th century, for a brief time surpassed the population of the Puget Sound region of Washington. (Wikepedia.)

Images were photographed with a Phase 1 60 GB back while attending a PODAS workshop where each participant had the use of the Phase gear. Presenters included Art Wolfe, Michael Reichmann, Jeff Schewe and Paul Dubovoy as well as experts from Phase One. A great workshop.

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