Dreaming of a Cloud Harvest: Cotton Season in DeKalb County, Alabama

There is a moment in the Alabama autumn when the cotton fields look like the clouds came down to rest on the earth. Row after row of white bolls stretch in every direction, so dense and so bright against the brown stalks that the whole field seems to glow — a harvest that looks more like a dream than a crop.

In the Little River Canyon area of DeKalb County, Alabama, this cotton field at peak harvest captures that dream perfectly. Shot from the field's edge looking across the full expanse, the white bolls fill the entire lower two-thirds of the frame — thousands upon thousands of them, stretching all the way to a distant treeline where a farm building sits small and quiet on the horizon. Above it all, a deep, cloudless blue Alabama sky completes the composition in perfect contrast — the white of the cotton below mirroring the white of the clouds that aren't there.

Cotton has been part of the Alabama landscape for centuries, woven into the state's agricultural heritage as deeply as any crop in the American South. "Dreaming of a Cloud Harvest" honors that heritage without nostalgia — it is simply a stunning portrait of the land doing what it has always done, producing something beautiful in the brief, brilliant window of harvest season.

Bring the timeless beauty of Alabama's cotton harvest home with this museum-quality fine art photography print by Bama Price — available as metal, canvas, or glossy paper.