By ella.greenslade Posted on

Farming on Wawawai Grade Rd.

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I chose to depict the farms on Wawawai Grade Rd. The rowing team travels these roads every afternoon on our way to the Snake River. Coming from New Zealand, this is one of my favourite moments of the day as it reminds me of home. It amazes me how the farming environments can be similar and yet so different. Pullman’s farms have a sense of loneliness, abandoned and broken equipment lies on the road. NZ farms flaunt much more livestock and green fields. While NZ has abandoned farms, the Pullman farms are much more rustic and machinery filled. This essay shows the parts of Pullman’s farming environment that contrast with my memories of New Zealand’s farms. Photos were taken with an iphone 12, and I used the rule of thirds throughout the shoot, showing the empty and open space surrounding each piece of abandoned equipment.

Fallen fence posts
A fallen fence at the intersection of Wawawai-Grade Rd. and Wawawai-Pullman Rd.
A fence post frames a man fishing
A fisherman tying his lure in the distance at Wawawai Landing.
An old tractor & harvestor
An old tractor & harvester abandoned along Wawawai-Grade Rd.
Old Broken Car in front of green hills
An old broken car near the bottom of Wawawai-Grade Rd.
Wooden sign
A wooden sign pointing to local farms/houses along Wawawai-Grade Rd.
Two mailboxes on an oil drum
Two mailboxes sit on top of an old oil drum in an empty field.
A yellow tractor in a field
A yellow tractor sits abandoned on a farm on Wawawai-Grade Rd.
An old combine harvestor in a field
An old combine harvester in an empty field.
A hand outreached to a brown horse
A hand stretches out to a domesticated horse at the bottom of Wawawai-Grade Rd.
A motercyclist drives down a hill
A motorcyclist passes a farm while driving down Wawawai-Grade Rd.