{"id":2356,"date":"2010-05-03T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2010-05-03T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:47:38","slug":"american-farmer-the-heart-of-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2373\" title=\"paulmobley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/paulmobley1.jpg\" alt=\"paulmobley\" width=\"250\" height=\"219\" \/>Enlightening Stories Behind the Inspiring Photography<br \/>\n<em>written by Mike Gustafson, Deer&#8217;s Landing Communication<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Mobley started his presentation with a story explaining how he lost his love for photography, and how he regained it at a small-town coffee shop. There sat four farmers who would change the course of Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life.<\/p>\n<p>Paul had never photographed anything having to do with agriculture before. But these people where so real, so engaging, that by the end of the summer, Paul had taken photos of nearly every farmer and farm family in that county. He pitched the idea of a book commemorating rural America.\u00c2\u00a0 His publisher loved the idea, and off went Paul on a four-year, 100,000-mile journey through 37 states.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This book is about people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And so it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Over 270 pages of incredible photographs of people who work the land. Incredible, too, are the stories behind those pictures.<\/p>\n<p>One such story Paul shared was his opportunity to photograph Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana. At 115 years of age, Edna was, at the time, the oldest living person in the world. Paul recounted his time with Edna as a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctrue honor.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p>While Paul may have set up and posed his subjects, he says that his best shots came from those moments when people were unaware he was shooting.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it seemed that every photo captured the true character of people in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, <em>American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country<\/em>, contains more than two hundred portraits and forty-five farmer and rancher interviews. A journey through his book is truly a journey through the heartland.<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks go out to the Cattlemen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Beef Board and Elanco Animal Health for their sponsorship of the Closing Session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlightening Stories Behind the Inspiring Photography written by Mike Gustafson, Deer&#8217;s Landing Communication Paul Mobley started his presentation with a story explaining how he lost his love for photography, and how he regained it at a small-town coffee shop. There sat four farmers who would change the course of Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. Paul had never photographed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}