'Your hay it is mow’d and your corn it is reap’d.
Your barns will be full and your hovels heap’d
Come, boys, come,
Come, boys, come. '
John Dryden
Traditionally, the Thanksgiving feast was a celebration of harvest. reaping the rewards of a spring and summer of hard work planting and tending to the gardens and crops. In Autumn, those crops are reaped in harvest, providing food for the long winter ahead. It is more than appropriate then, to head into the barn with model Hansel Wellington to celebrate the end of the harvest season.
There's a subtle but distinct difference in reaping and harvest, focused on how the crops are gathered. Reaping means to cut, (usually wheat) where as other crops are harvested, meaning they're gathered or pulled from their stems when ripe. Hansel is clearly the perfect model to demonstrate these techniques. He's beautifully cut, and his fruit appears juicy and plump, clearly ripe for the picking...
Many FH viewers might remember Hansel's appearance last month celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving. (Turkey for One) The barn in this case, was actually an outbuilding from the estate house featured in the October shoot. The house was build in 1892 by a local banker in Ovid MI and Tom's friend is restoring it to it's original state.
The barn like structure featured in this shoot was actually originally the home's old carriage house, Lights On Studio's Tom Nakielski loved the space and especially the incredible light which flowed in from the open barn doors.
'Hansel has no issue with getting naked but the owner of the house)was a little concerned that if we got too close to the doors the neighbors would see a naked man stripping off his clothes and swinging on a rope. I think we got by undetected.... No police arrived, and no arrests were made.'
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Magnifico!
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