This has always been my favorite time of year to shoot. I love the scenes of the world getting ready to slow down. Bringing the corn and beans in. Planting rows of winter crops. It will never not be beautiful to me and I am grateful to be back in this area just in time to see it. 

Harvest crews work the field Sept. 15, 2015 near Steeleville, Ill.

A mowed field Sept. 15, 2015 near Steeleville, Ill.

Corn is ready to be harvested Sept. 15, 2015.

 Melchor Fabcan, middle, and his father, Salvador Fabcan, right, examine apples brought by the pickers and hand out bonus pay tokens Sept. 1, 2015 in a stand of trees at Rendleman Orchard. Salvador has worked on the farm for more than two decades and raised his son there. As the years have gone on, orchard owner Wayne Sirles says multiple generations of works at the orchard have grown more common.

Salvador Fabcan sorts through apples brought by pickers in the field Sept. 1 2015 on Rendleman Orchard in Alto Pass. 

An abandoned house Sept. 17, 2015 near Steeleville, Ill.