The Earth Remains but the Dreams have gone

Nice photo but there are 2 points that disturb me :

1/ the fields at the foreground suggest that "the dreams" have not completely gone

2/ you seem to have blurred these fields, but it appears to be "unnatural"

The field is blurred by the DOF of the 400/5.6 used. I have shots and crops without the suggestion of the furrows but left them to show the field (earth is used still) but the people who tilled are no longer there. Some one who doesn't live on the land now tills it.