It seems odd that I discovered a conservation park I didn’t know about just 5 miles from the house, but considering Dane County has around 300 parks I guess it’s not surprising. Pope Farm Conservancy is an interesting concept in a conservation park. Not only does it protect wildlife and the prairie landscape it also is preserving Wisconsin’s farm heritage. There are several working fields in the park and some rock fences built by the first settlers and a lot of interpretive signs commemorating the agricultural and natural history of the area.
Here’s a couple of pinhole photos from Pope Farm.
The rock fence was built up over time as the farmers removed rocks out of the field left by the glaciers thousands of years ago. Every year some new rocks emerge out of the ground by frost action and need to be removed to till the land.
I had the gift of some great clouds to work with while shooting. The long exposures of the pinhole blur the clouds for a nice effect in this sunflower field in Pope Conservancy.
