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HEAVY EQUIPMENT//

Raw, gritty, and built to move mountains. I love the scale and sheer power of heavy iron, excavators clawing into a hillside, combines rolling through gold wheat, loaders and cranes throwing dust into the light. It is steel, torque, and grit, and I get in close to feel every ton of it.

A haul truck travels a dark haul road cutting through the terraced benches of a Barrick Gold open-pit mine under heavy clouds.

A Caterpillar excavator loads spoil into a tracked material carrier under a dramatic overcast sky, dust flying, at a Hanging H earthwork site.

An operator in a hard hat and hi-vis LiuGong vest sits at the controls inside the glass cab of an excavator at golden hour.

A grapple loader lifts brush and slash onto a forwarder in backlit dust during land clearing at a Hanging H Hood River project.

A worker is silhouetted in golden dust while blowing down a large telehandler at a plant yard.

A LiuGong excavator pours a bucket of soil in a golden backlit dust cloud as the sun sets over distant desert mountains.

A machine operator in a sticker-covered hard hat and hi-vis vest sits focused at the controls, seen through the cab glass, at a Hanging H site.

A Western Star oversize-load truck delivers green pipe joints as a Deere excavator offloads them under a stormy sky at a Hanging H pipeline spread.

A lineup of articulated haul trucks parked in the mud, facing camera, beneath a skyline of tower cranes at dusk on a Woodside Energy construction site.

Aerial view of a yellow LiuGong tracked excavator swinging a bucket of soil and kicking up dust across a dark earthmoving site.

A John Deere excavator digs a deep trench, framed by the trench walls against a dramatic stormy sky at a Hanging H site.

A farmer drives a vintage yellow-and-orange diesel tractor along the edge of a green field beneath dramatic gray storm clouds.

An aerial view of a combine unloading grain into a cart mid-harvest, dust billowing across the crop rows at golden hour.

A combine harvester works a grain field at dusk, kicking up dust under a soft pastel sky, ripe heads in the foreground.

A young man in an Ariat tee and jeans sits on the front track of a big green tracked tractor under a broad sky.

Combine harvester trailing a cloud of chaff through golden wheat at golden hour, with green fields and trees beyond on the Wurzbach farmland.

Overhead aerial of a combine harvester carving diagonal rows through a ripe golden wheat field on a Wurzbach farm.

A tractor pulls an air seeder across a vast golden prairie under a hazy sky, photographed for Gates.

Aerial view of a combine harvester cutting golden wheat and raising a plume of dust across a wide Wurzbach farm field at sunset.

A tractor and air seeder kick up dust while working a stubble field at golden hour, photographed for Gates.

A farmer drives a vintage tractor into a corrugated-metal machine shed, exhaust drifting through the light, with farm equipment inside.

A farmer in a plaid shirt cleans the header reel of a combine harvester in a golden, freshly cut Bayer crop field at sunset.

A woman in an Ariat cap operates a tractor from the cab, hand on the controls amid GPS screens in warm light.

A low-angle view of a large green combine harvester and its header in a harvested field under a blue sky.

A wheel loader moves feed beside towering grain silos and conveyors at an Elanco feedlot feed mill at sunrise.

A four-wheel-drive tractor rests before towering steel grain bins at sunset, photographed for Gates.

A large four-wheel-drive tractor and air seeder sit in a dry field as a worker loads seed, photographed for Gates.

A wheel loader tips feed into a weigh hopper as sunlight flares behind an Elanco feedlot feed mill.

A woman sits in the cab of a wheel loader parked before towering grain bins in this Elanco farm portrait.

A woman operates a tractor from the cab, watching the guidance display, in this Elanco farm portrait.

A wheel loader dumps feed into a mixer amid dust and light inside a barn at an Elanco feeding operation.

A wheel loader fills a feed mixer wagon inside a barn as dust catches the light at an Elanco feed operation.

A farmer in a tan Walls canvas jacket rests against the massive rubber track of a farm tractor parked in a machine shed.

A Pavecon operator in an orange vest drives a backhoe loader through a dusty, sunlit paving worksite.

A John Deere excavator digs on a steep hillside high above a forested river canyon in warm light at a Hanging H Hood River project.

From inside a freshly dug trench, a LiuGong excavator lowers its bucket toward the operator working the controls under a bright sky.

A John Deere excavator and dozer cut a bench into a steep hillside above a forested river canyon at a Hanging H Hood River project.

A cotton harvester rolls through a field of bright white cotton bolls as the sun sets on a BASF crop operation.

A green cotton picker harvests rows of PhytoGen cotton at dusk, with a second machine working the field in the distance under a dramatic sky.

A cotton harvester sits in a blooming cotton field at sunrise with grain silos on the horizon during a BASF agricultural shoot.

A cotton harvester works a sprawling cotton field under a soft dusk sky during a BASF agricultural harvest.

A wind technician in Timberland boots walks across the nacelle of a wind turbine high above a desert wind farm.

An aerial view of a wind-farm technician in Timberland gear standing atop a turbine hub above a green valley of wind turbines.