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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
Working against the setting sun

Driving along a rural road close to sundown, I noticed this farmer plowing a cotton field. I did a quick U-turn, parked on the side of the road, and grabbed my camera. Walking along the edge of this Arizona cotton field I was surrounded by the pure white puffs of cotton among a haze of dust that followed the tractor in each plowed row. As one of the five C’s essential to the state's economy - copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate - cotton’s history in Arizona can be traced from the prehistoric Hohokam cotton farms.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 01.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Bapchule, Arizona, United States of America
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6
Copyright: © E Bellizzi