Meanygate meanderings (and beyond) - a farmed landscape

[sphexx]

For me 1 has the title “Patterns” and 2 is called “Patters” in the links above, not on the zines . There is no numeral in the second link you posted so I assumed it was 1 whereas the first link has numeral 2 in the title (and the typo!) … if you see what I mean . No idea if @Boots is using the same order .

 

[Boots]

For me "Growing Patterns" is #1, "Growing Patters 2" is #2.

 

[Ed Sutton]

For me 1 has the title “Patterns” and 2 is called “Patters” in the links above, not on the zines . There is no numeral in the second link you posted so I assumed it was 1 whereas the first link has numeral 2 in the title (and the typo!) … if you see what I mean . No idea if @Boots is using the same order .

For me "Growing Patterns" is #1, "Growing Patters 2" is #2.

I shall go and ponder some more.

 

[Ed Sutton]

For me 1 has the title “Patterns” and 2 is called “Patters” in the links above, not on the zines . There is no numeral in the second link you posted so I assumed it was 1 whereas the first link has numeral 2 in the title (and the typo!) … if you see what I mean . No idea if @Boots is using the same order .

For me "Growing Patterns" is #1, "Growing Patters 2" is #2.

To be clear is this the final spread in the version you both prefer? If so then my pondering is over as I think (for now) that's what I'll go with.

 

[Boots]

Yes, that's my preferred one.

 

[sphexx]

The same.

 

[Ed Sutton]

Thanks both. That's pleasing because that is actually my reworked version, despite it appearing as the first link.

 

[Ed Sutton]

A bit of sun and a spare couple of hours and I can't keep away! Here's that hoe in use.



The wet May has kept a lot of fields uncultivated longer than usual.



Yet another lettuce harvester.







The printed zine arrived today and it's turned out the way I hoped it would.



the inevitably rubbish zineflip video...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4oz2YOcg4
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[sirch]

Hand hoeing a field! I can't get motivated to do a flower bed

 

[sirch]

The zine looks good, thanks for sharing

 

[Ed Sutton]

It seems that if I don't go out to the moss so often when I do there are different things to see. So I might carry on with sporadic visits when I have a spare couple of hours.



The white van is a crew bus used to transport gangs of workers to the fields.



Another take on bird scarers.



I could have done to wait for the spray boom to get closer, but it was tea time!

 

[Boots]

Love the first two!

 

[Ed Sutton]

Eventually got the light on this 'scarecrow' after spotting it some weeks ago. Couldn't get an angle to make a better picture though.



This is just a sunset because sunsets have to be photographed.

 

[sirch]

This is just a sunset because sunsets have to be photographed.

Absolutely

 

[Ed Sutton]

A last minute walk this evening not expecting much, but it proved worthwhile. Particularly for the onions.











And a sunset...

 

[superpippo]

Interesting shots, partic the onions and the large machine.

 

[Ed Sutton]

I've not been out on the meanygates for some time but a quicky from today to point out how it is worth photographing things that 'will always be there'. In case they're not.



I also got this which I quite like.

 

[Hadron]

I've not been out on the meanygates for some time but a quicky from today to point out how it is worth photographing things that 'will always be there'. In case they're not.

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I also got this which I quite like.

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The last one brings back memories of Quadrophenia

 

[Ed Sutton]

The last one brings back memories of Quadrophenia

 

[Hadron]

 

[Ed Sutton]

Foggy here today so I thought I'd take look to see how it looked round the meanygates. The water tank is being replaced.



The last of the veg are almost all gathered in.







I had expected the mist to start burning off during my hour and a half walk but it didn't. There wasn't much to see.

 

[Ed Sutton]

The water tank is completed.





A cracking afternoon to be out.





Something's been making tracks which the setting sun picks out.

 

[superpippo]

That water tank has a strange beauty

 

[Ed Sutton]

Something different today. I had a cataract op on my shooting eye on Wednesday and am trying to resist using it with the camera to my eye. There's probably no need as I wear glasses so unlikely to press the camera into my eye but better safe than sorry. As I'm also supposed to be 'off work' I was at a loose end and went for a short walk which turned into a longer one. In my pocket was my Fuji X100T, just in case. Out on the moss I remembered it has a sweep panorama function. I had a play.


meanygate panorama by Dave Lumb, on Flickr



meanygate panorama by Dave Lumb, on Flickr

I went mad and stitched two together in Lightroom!


meanygate panorama by Dave Lumb, on Flickr

If I get really bored I might (probably won't) go and have a try at some panoramas using a DSLR.

 

[Ed Sutton]

Someone lock this thread to stop me having a place to post this rubbish!

 

[sirch]

Someone lock this thread to stop me having a place to post this rubbish!

absolutely not

It's great to see you keep going with this

 

[Boots]

Love the bolts, and the caravan is good too - returning to nature.

 

[Ed Sutton]

The remains of the old water tank.



Spring on the way.



Random nonsense.

 

[Ed Sutton]

Some random snaps of the soil as the time for planting gets close.

 

[Ed Sutton]

Spring is here and cultivation and planting are underway.





It's a never ending task keeping the roads in reasonable order as they are laid on peat.



A hopeless snap, but fun to watch.


A hopel

 

[Ed Sutton]

Off piste to the 'other' meanygate this evening. I had hoped to find some lambs backlit by the sunset, but the buggers were at the far end of the field so it was fleece covered veg and sacks of soil.

The sun sure does sink quickly!

 

[Ed Sutton]

The sunshine continues and it's all go on the moss.







Landscape with grey partridge.

 

[superpippo]

Another good set showing the variety of the work going on

 

[Ed Sutton]

After the sheep wandered away last night I went off-piste again. I've left these deliberately dark to reflect the time of day but now think they need lightening.







This morning it was back to the moss after boxing off some work.





I timed it well, the self-propelled planting contraption was approaching the road. Father and son on board.







It has to be stopped and turned round by hand at the end of each run.

 

[superpippo]

Very much like the shots of the planting, illustrating the large amount of work going into planting seedlings. Last shot is top stuff.

Not keen on the darker ones, not because they are dark but because it looks like it has snowed and that does not fit the time of year.

 

[Ed Sutton]

Not keen on the darker ones, not because they are dark but because it looks like it has snowed and that does not fit the time of year.

Thanks for the feedback.

I know what you mean, but even in 'real life' it can look like snow at first glance. In the same way polythene covered fields can look like water when the sun catches them at the right angle and seen from a distance. I've been fooled by that a time or two when driving around unfamiliar places!

 

[Ed Sutton]

A cold northerly today, but plenty of birds about. A bit of ditch work going on.









There be sheep on them thar hills!

 

[superpippo]

So good of the farmer to use blue bags - makes a real difference

 

[Ed Sutton]

I like this one because it has three things in it - seedlings, bird scaring mylar tape, and fleece.



The imperfection in this one is what caught my eye.

 

[Ed Sutton]

I'd not picked up a camera for a fortnight until yesterday! And not walked round the moss for a while longer. Things have changed. It looked like one crop of radish has already been harvested. Elsewhere fields have been cultivated and crops planted.

I tried to take a different look at things. Not sure I succeeded.









Three stages: tilling, sowing, covering.