Mid-Day Sun

I never go out in mid-day sun to shoot!  So what inspired this image?  Well what brought me out with my camera (Nikon D50) was a trip to St-Pierre-Joly, to see my son Cam.  He was part of a film crew for Travel Manitoba, doing a piece on The Frog Follies.  The Frog Follies are St-Pierre's annual summer festival, where the main attraction is a frog jumping contest.

It was a typical hot, humid summer Manitoba afternoon, and as I drove I kept on noticing the beautiful yellow canola fields going on for miles.  I decided that on the way back from The Frog Follies that I was going to take the slow way home.  That means taking the country roads.  I love driving country roads and this one was especially deserted because it was dirt and probably used mostly by farmers to get to their fields.  The sky was amazing, so blue with these big white puffy clouds everywhere.  I had to stop, get out my tripod and camera and start shooting.  It was all about the colours and I wanted to make it simple and still capture everything I was seeing.  As I got out of the car, the heat and humidity hit me like a brick wall, and the only sounds I could hear, besides the faint sound of  Dave Edmunds playing on my iPod, were the insects and birds.  It was so Beautiful!