Meanygate meanderings (and beyond) - a farmed landscape

Harlequin565 said:
So. 4 years in.

Are you done yet?
If not, what's the holdup?

To be clear, I love the images, even if I don't always comment - I'm more curious as to what it is you're looking for, or why you're still going - not from an accusatory point of view, just a curious one.



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It's somewhere I can get to in a short time when I only have an hour or two spare. I'm not sure there's an end point at this stage because I don't want to embark on a new 'big project' until I've got my sheep book boxed off - and that's probably 12-18 months away - because I know I can only concentrate on one project at a time.

Making the Growing Patterns zine was a sort of chapter, not the end, but I've not found another chapter yet. I thought of putting that in the zine swap but it seemed like a cheat using an old bit of work rather than something new done for the swap.

Ultimately I'd like to get more pictures of work going on to build into something with a final outcome, but that will require more commitment than going out when I happen to have a couple of hours free.

So it's still pretty much practice in looking for, seeing, and taking photos to keep my eye in. Trying to find subjects in the familiar is a challenge, but once spring comes things change pretty regularly out there. Besides, it gets me out of the house and clears my head on days when work has not gone to plan too!
 
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Plenty of work going on in the fields yesterday afternoon. I walked past the sphagnum moss trials for the first time in ages and the wet winter had made a mess of the original plot, but there are new plots being set up and more irrigation going in (ironically).

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To the left of shot was a strange looking machine billowing clouds of steam that looked as if it was 'ironing' the ground.

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I was going to ask the operator what was going on but it was a noisy machine and when he got down from it headed up the field.So it was a Google job when I got home. Turns out it's a machine for disinfecting the soil. Every day's a school day.
 
Mossland machinery today.

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Oops.

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Lightroom is driving me nuts. After one upgrade a while back it started making all my files more contrasty, including ones processed ages ago which it has reverted all profiles to Adobe Standard. I made a new profile to use on import which sorted it, but after the latest 'upgrade' it's making that more contrasty. It's making it harder to work on files.
 
I suspect these 'flags' do more to cheer up the grower than they do to deter pigeons.

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A distant view of the sphagnum trial.

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Took my 100-400 out yesterday evening to see if that might produce some different pictures. As usual the sun hid from me when I got out to the moss proper.

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Then reappeared as it set and and I was heading home defeated with my emergency 50mm on the camera.

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A couple of randoms wandering with a 50mm in an attempt to 'see differently' today. It didn't make any difference other than missing the pics I saw that I'd have got at 150mm....

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On the mere this evening. As usual my impatience got the better of me and I couldn't be bothered waiting for the sun to come out from behind a big cloud, which might have improved the tractor pic. Not important photos, just more 'practice' and ideas gathering, so I wasn't bothered. Leek growing might be in line for a project when the Lonks are out of the way. It would be a more sensible subject as it's closer to home.

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I always see pictures that are backlit when I don't want them to be...

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Maybe sunlight would have improved it, maybe not.

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As I said, practice and ideas gathering for the future.
 
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