Irrigated fields in Spain (9 photos)

Photographer Edward Bartinski always been interested in human impact on nature, and he devoted more than 20 years of shooting on this topic. All his works show a retreat under the onslaught of the pristine nature of man.



Pictures taken rainfed fields in Spain, made from a helicopter.



Irrigated fields - land on which crops are cultivated without irrigation



Irrigated field in Aragon, province Monegros, Spain, with a height of about 600 meters
This series of photographs taken in 2010 and is part of a larger project called Water, work on which Edward began in 2008 and plans to complete in 2013





Bartinski says: "I like to take on some topic and develop it, finding visual matching her ideas. Interesting pictures of water, and agriculture is the water most relevant, so I could not lose sight of irrigated fields in the province of Monegros »

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Rainfed fields where moisture is mainly used, the resulting soil in the spring, usually grow drought-resistant crops, fodder plants and melons.



Rainfed fields are totally dependent on nature, as if rainfall in insufficient quantities, the crop may be reduced or may not be at all.



At present, the series devoted to dry farming, presented at the New York gallery Bruce Volkovitsa.



 - Source: trasyy.livejournal.com