Biographical Information

William E. Barksdale, who recently relocated his operation from Memphis, Tennessee to Cotter, Arkansas, specializes in agricultural photography. He produces stock images and accepts photo assignments from advertising and public relations agencies, corporate communications departments and publishers. Bill produces extensive photography of Mid-South crops, especially cotton, rice, soybeans, corn, grain sorghum and wheat. He also shoots in the Southeast, Midwest and Florida, with occasional trips to other regions.

Using professional grade Canon digital cameras and lenses, he produces images for use in ads, brochures and other marketing communications, as well as magazine covers, calendars, etc. He strives to capture the perfect angle and quality of light for each situation, usually beginning his days in the field at sunrise and ending them with post-sunset shooting.

A native of Fort Smith Arkansas, Barksdale combines agricultural writing with photography. After graduating from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor's degree in General Agriculture, he held editorial positions with two leading farm magazines before establishing Barksdale Agri-Communications, an agricultural writing-photography service. An avid outdoors man, he fly-fishes for trout with his wife, sons, and friends in his leisure time.

Sample Photos By Bill Barksdale

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Aerial chemical application of insecticide on cotton crop / MS Delta.

AGST-492
By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Chemical application of fungicide and insecticide on fresh market tomatoes / FL.

AGST-580
By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Cotton Gin interior.

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Cotton seedling in no-till field emerging through cotton residue / MS Delta.

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Field of harvest stage ultra narrow row cotton in late afternoon light / TN. Crops-Cotton-South-Harvest Stage

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Early growth rice plants in a newly flooded field in late afternoon light with the levee winding off into the distance / MS. Crops-Rice

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - A field of maturing grain sorghum (milo) with a farmstead in the background / AR. Crops-Sorghum (Milo)

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - A John Deere tractor pulling a 16 row planter plants corn with a stormy sky in the distance / IL - Villa Grove. Planting-Corn

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Looking down between two rows of mature soybeans ready for harvest with the sun setting in the distance / IL.

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Two young farm boys play in a grain cart full of harvested grain corn / IL.

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Silhouette of a crop consultant checking harvest stage rice at sunset / MS.

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By: Bill Barksdale
Agriculture - Silhouette of two cotton pickers harvesting cotton at sunset / MS.

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