No longer rolling wheels

Several years ago, I was back in Terra Alta, West Virginia... visiting cousins. This is the birthplace of my Dad. It is a town that is almost forgotten... in some of the most beautiful country on earth. Near my Dad's old home... Mr Teets had his collection of old farm equipment out along with old cars from the 30s and there about. I immediately was attracted to the wheels. These wheels made history, carrying early settlers, plowing the land, harvesting crops. I isolated four different wheels & large pulley wheels and then put them together in this collage.

Well... I entered this collage of images into a juried photography competition called the Eye of the Camera that is held yearly at the Backus Gallery in Fort Pierce. Florida. To my amazement and joy it took first place earning a blue ribbon in the Digitally Manipulated Division... and it sold!