pfm Picture A Week (PAW) 2017 Part III

[eternumviti]

Spooky stuff, maize. Pheasant cover, I should think. I love the photo.

 

[Gromit]

Spooky stuff, maize. Pheasant cover, I should think. I love the photo.

Thank you

There a quite lot of fields just like this round our way - to my untrained eye it's almost as though they're being left extremely late. They do look good against a very wet Lincs sky though.

 

[John Barry]

Lovely photo

I'm waiting for Shoeless Joe Jackson to emerge from between a couple of rows....

 

[eternumviti]

Thank you

There a quite lot of fields just like this round our way - to my untrained eye it's almost as though they're being left extremely late. They do look good against a very wet Lincs sky though.

If it is crop, and the fact that there are fields rather than strips suggests that it is, it is often harvested late, though I suspect we are getting towards very late now.

 

[cctaylor]

Not sure how the weather has been down south, in North East Scotland we have had so few dry days since the start of September. The dry days have come in ones and twos making harvest a slow process and the straw has lain so long it has lost a lot quality. Locally straw, mainly for bedding, is selling for much more than hay or silage used for feeding animals.

If it is fields of maize, the farmers will be hoping to harvest this (normally maize is harvested in September and October). It will be cut with a forage harvester and ensiled, either to feed cattle or anaerobic digesters to provide energy. Field beans are normally harvested in November.

 

[Pete MB&D]

It isn't as high as an elephants eye yet.

Pete

 

[Pete MB&D]

Wall leaf by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Decending order by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[JemHayward]

Bamburgh Sunrise by Jem Hayward, on Flickr

Possibly the first time I've successfully got up to photograph the sunrise in about 40 years... took two attempts, but we got to Holy Island just in time to watch the sun rise over Bamburgh castle.

Fuji X-E2 with Fujinon XF35F1.4 R at f5.6, ISO 800 1/900s

 

[JemHayward]

A couple of (very different) experiments with deliberate camera movement. The first image is sunrise, hand held, and panned, the second is a long exposure, with the camera moved part way through the exposure, on a tripod...

sunrise icm by Jem Hayward, on Flickr

castle icm by Jem Hayward, on Flickr

 

[Paulicus]

Newtyle, Angus. Scotland by Paul Wood, on Flickr

 

[Lefty]

Liking that Paul - the people give the image a sense of scale which helps to emphasise the size of the trees Nice colours too!



Minus One by Amar Sood, on Flickr

Nikon D800E / Tokina 100mm f2.8 Macro

Lefty

 

[Pete MB&D]

Repetition by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[Gromit]

Paul - 'Newtyle' is just gorgeous.

 

[Gromit]

HFS69 by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Olympus Pen F/Oly 60-2.8 Macro

 

[Pete MB&D]

Caution contents hot by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[Lefty]

HFS69 by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Olympus Pen F/Oly 60-2.8 Macro

Astonishing image Richard!!

 

[Gromit]

Thanks Amar - most kind.

I want to try this again but getting in a lot closer - the distance from front element was at least 1'. I took one with the Pen F's hi-res function but it throws up so much detail it'd take me hours to get rid of all the miniscule dust spots!

 

[John Barry]

On our last evening in Scotland, sorry it's a bit of a cliche!

 

[Gromit]

Little & Large:

Little and large by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

OM-D E-M1/Olympus 40-150 2.8 Pro

 

[Stunsworth]

Very nice Gromit.