In The Palouse - Luminous-Landscape's Palouse Workshops

It is time for my annual Palouse trip.  This year I’ll be in the Palouse for two weeks, running two back-to-back workshops with four participants each.  For those of you that don’t know, the Palouse is an area of southeast Washington State that is comprised of rolling hills, small towns, and has some of the richest farmland in the country.  The specialty crop here is wheat.
I discovered the Palouse in 2005 and have been photographing here almost every year.  There are two times to visit this area: the early summer (now) and the middle of August for the harvest.  The rolling hills are beautiful this time of year with wheat as far as you can see.  These hills are green with paths of brown from freshly plowed dirt.  The big, puffy cumulus clouds that adorn the sky move and cast shadows on the hills and regularly make them a dynamic part of the landscape as the shadows move.

There are also many farms, abandoned houses, old trucks, and surprises around every turn.  There are no preset vis...