Photography Guidelines and Permission Form for Community Chamber Orchestra’s 2008 and 2009
“Agriculture and the Arts” Project
You may submit photos at any time, but they need to be sent as digital images through the Internet. If you use 35mm film, when it is developed you should request a CD. Please e-mail only your selected photographs from the CD or digital camera card to Jim Beck at:
(as attachments to an e-mail).
Please include on the e-mail: Your name (for our credits)
Address & phone
Photo title (Optional)
Farming theme (see back of this page)
For the Spring 2008 concert, the deadline for photography submissions is April 1; and the same for the Spring 2009 concert. However, please send photography all throughout the year, and only a small amount at the deadline. We want to see all seasons of the year!
You retain all ownership rights to all of your submitted photos, but by signing and returning the below permission form, you grant permission to Community Chamber Orchestra to use them in the concerts and to print and frame them to be placed on display in Clay County area businesses and public places.
All the photos need to be taken with film and camera settings that produce very clear, vivid images and colors. This is because when we project them on the movie screen at the Rex Theater, there is a loss of color and a darkening/dimming effect.
To participate in the project as a volunteer photographer, please sign the photo release form and mail or e-mail it to:
Dr. Anne Clark, 454 23rd Rd., Morganville, KS 67468-9117
If you have questions, you may call 785-925-4725 or e-mail
(You can request this form by e-mail as well.)
With the submission of my photograph(s) for possible inclusion in the
“Agriculture and the Arts” project, I understand that I will retain ownership.
I hereby grant to the Community Chamber Orchestra and its agents the
permanent right to use copies of all my submitted photographs for educational, artistic, archival, promotional and presentational uses without
limitation. Agreed to and accepted by
______, dated______
(Your signature above)
Keep a camera with you at all times possible, so you can capture those amazing moments which cannot be posed. However, we also want you to send us posed photos which you think will appeal to the general public (perhaps something like at our farm: the raccoon and farm cats feeding out of the same food pans in the shed!)
The mission of this project is to document, celebrate, and provide artistic ways to appreciate the Clay County small family farm heritage (through two multi-media concerts and a permanent community exhibit of photography). The photos will provide a glimpse for future generations and those not familiar with Clay County into what farming for small family farms was like in 2007-2009 in our part of Kansas.
Take pictures so that they unmistakably show a connection to small family farming in Clay County. For instance, a sky shot should include farm buildings, animals, machinery, stacked bales, etc., not just pictures of the clouds by themselves.
Take some pictures which are beautiful (such as on calendars), also pictures that are significant and typical of farm lifestyle, such as damage from weather and constant struggles endured. Portraits are also fine, as long as they are clearly farm-related. Old photographs taken before this project started are also welcome. If they have been copyrighted somewhere else, you need to obtain permission for us to use them, and send them in digital form.
Here are sample themes we will use in our two concerts. Try to select one that is a “best fit” for your photos when you submit them by e-mail, or suggest a theme of your own.
Seasons Make Farming Interesting Being Sociable on the Farm
Struggles and Disappointments Funny, Unusual Happenings
Animals and Plants, Wild and Tame Tools, Contraptions, and Work
Conservation Clay County Century Farms
Good Neighbors and Volunteers Something Old, Something New
Faith’s Importance to Farming What Makes Small Farms Precious?
Farmers, the Original “Multi-Taskers” Feeding the World
That Independent Streak! Childhood is Special on a Farm
Solving That Problem NOW A Family Business
To start you thinking about all the possibilities, here are subjects typical of Clay
County you could photograph:
All stages of fieldwork and caring for CRP and pastures; windbreaks
Cutting thistles, cedars, cheat…
Tearing out and building fence
Farmers working with livestock: birth, growth, death, bonding with animals, silhouettes
Farm ponds for livestock (drinking, keeping cool in summer), people
(swimming, fishing, BBQ), wildlife (snapping turtles, migrating birds, deer),
footprints and paw prints…
Water: windmills, wells, septic systems, solar, irrigation, drought, flood,
bridges, springs, “cricks,” sandbars
How the seasons look on Clay County farms
Wildlife: fish, badgers, raccoons, possum, coyote, bobcat, snakes, bugs, lizards, hawks,
lines of birds across the sky, woodpeckers, cardinals, meadowlarks, quail, doves,
robins, deer, pheasants, skunks, woodchuck, geese, ducks, wild turkeys, turkey
buzzards, heron, pelican, sea gulls, nests and burrows, catfish holes, rats, mice, chipmunks, amphibians, frogs, toads...
Country cemeteries, Diphtheria Hill, sites of lost country churches and schools,
recycled country churches, schools, barns & buildings
Country paths and roads, gullies, makeshift dumps and crossings
Remains of old pioneer settlers; foundations, outlines or partial cabins, wells…
Arrowheads, fossils, old coins, pieces of glass or other items from old farms
Hobby farms and kennels; exotic animals
Animal auctions and sale barns; bull rentals
Old farm implements or farmer’s items no longer in use (wagons, old cars and
trucks, silos…)
Broken down farm houses, barns, outbuildings; also setting next to newer ones
Mailbox supports made out of farm items or other old stuff
Seasonal decorations along the roadside of farms
Vet activities; birth of animals; nests and eggs; rearing of young
Trails, graffiti on rocks or wood
Sources of warmth: chimneys, fireplaces, animals basking in the sun, cutting
and burning wood
Safety from weather: storm shelters; weather spotting; weather radios and scanners,
waiting for the school bus; home schooling on farms, children/teens driving farm machine
Aftermath of floods, tornadoes, drought (washed-out roads, bridges, erosion,
knocked-over electric poles, barricades, alternate routes…)
Snow plowing with tractors, pulling vehicles out of fields and ditches, fires of
machinery, bales, etc., also planned burnings
Trucks, tractors, 3 or 4- wheelers, mowing, combines
Clouds, sunrise, sunset, stars, aerial views of farms and cropland
Old and new elevators, storage bins, augers, trucks; loading, weighing, unloading,
waiting in line to dump or get the tickets; custom operations; “settling up”
Building/maintaining terraces and pond dams
Harvest and harvest meals; fieldwork in the night or before/during sunrise & sunset
Water tanks, feed bunkers, feed lots, loading/working chutes, electric fencing,
barbed wire and other fencing; bulls breaking fences; loose cattle and calves
Machinery scrap lots; new machinery; repairs
Feeding cattle, weaning, bottle-feeding, twins, dairy cows and calves
Sale barns and auctions
Country picnics, celebrations, country music festivals, country dances (Cactus
Club?), fireworks on the farm, cutting the Christmas tree
Farm dogs and cats
Lightening and its damage; tornadoes/wind shear
Manure and hauling/spreading
Wildflowers and plants
Farmer’s gardens, canning, drying, rabbits, jackrabbits, pests in the gardens,
Fruit trees, damage to fruit trees from weather and pests
Farmer cafes, getting gas, propane delivery and storage, heat lamps
Longford rodeo; Longford water
Country coops – electric, water, elevators…
Horse riding, breeding, showing, competitions
Farm floats and participants in Piotique parade
County Fair and 4-H; Extension Units
Wheat, brome grass, oats, alfalfa, soybeans, sunflowers, cane, milo, corn, and
other crops
Hunting and wildlife on CRP
The farming close to everyday activities (Green School surrounded by fields,
Same for ballparks, etc. on the edge of towns)
Home businesses to supplement farm income
Changing tires, recycling iron…
New technology: GPS, no-till, new varieties of seed, high-speed Internet, cable,
cell phones
Safety and crime – farm accidents, meth labs, illegal hunting, stealing & poaching,
wildfires and arson
Peace and quiet, also frantic activity and noise!
Crop rotation of the same field; idling the land; terraces and contour farming;
cover crops
Holding titles to land and property; landlords & shares
Hunting and fishing seasons
Dirt, hail, dust, mud, slush, snow, ice, bites from bugs and animals; poison ivy and oak;
Spraying for weeds; noxious plants eradication
Endangered and rare species – eagle’s nests, etc.
Humor and jokes; funny photos!
Quilting, crafts,
Community Celebrations