I went into the barn with my IR camera and saw a wall full of hay, and it is a comforting and impressive sight, I wanted to capture the feeling I get when an old barn is filled with hay and winter is creeping along. When winter comes, I intend to have enough hay in the barn to get us through April. We have two donkeys, a hungry pony, and ten sheep.

In the winter, they eat twice a day. They mostly eat first-cut bales of hay, less rich in nutrients and flavor than the second cut in August. Second cut hay is like Thanksgiving dinner, say the farmers, you don’t have Thanksgiving dinner every day. But in the dead of winter – and this one is supposed to be harsh – the animals need some extra nourishment and energy, and so we mix the second cut in with the first cut when it’s bitter cold.

I’ve got nearly 100 bales, I’m getting 30 more. I took a pinhole photo – very narrow aperture – of the hay to try and capture the warm and timeless feel of it. The IR camera captured the low light in the barn.