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One thing the covid restrictions are doing is forcing me to explore my local area. Over the years I have made half-hearted attempts to photograph the flat, farmed, land where I live, but now I have to walk through it I'm starting to 'see' it better. Out of boredom I've also started to visit places I've either not been for years or never been. Places that aren't en route to anywhere. The flatlands are long-drained marshy areas, mosses, which are criss-crossed with ditches, drains and single track roads many of which are called 'meanygates', some no longer open to road traffic but still public rights of way.
The farming is mostly vegetables and salad crops, with arable and maize grown on rotation. All done in a fairly intensive way, particularly by the large concerns, yet with some small scale outfits who don't employ on migrant workers but do it themselves, often using old machinery or by hand.
How long I'll persevere with this I don't really know. It might well fizzle out, but the pictures will be a mix of landscapes, but which wouldn't go down well in the landscape section of TP, farm work (if distancing wasn't an issue I'd make contact with people) and details. Here's an initial selection.
Although the land is long since drained and tilled tree remains are still ploughed up from time to time.
Where the land has, I assume, sunk the roads give a slightly raised vantage point making it easier to give an impression of the topography. For such a flat place I find wide angle lenses far from useful. There's nothing romantically nostalgic about the farming methods in use.
The farming is mostly vegetables and salad crops, with arable and maize grown on rotation. All done in a fairly intensive way, particularly by the large concerns, yet with some small scale outfits who don't employ on migrant workers but do it themselves, often using old machinery or by hand.
How long I'll persevere with this I don't really know. It might well fizzle out, but the pictures will be a mix of landscapes, but which wouldn't go down well in the landscape section of TP, farm work (if distancing wasn't an issue I'd make contact with people) and details. Here's an initial selection.
Although the land is long since drained and tilled tree remains are still ploughed up from time to time.
Where the land has, I assume, sunk the roads give a slightly raised vantage point making it easier to give an impression of the topography. For such a flat place I find wide angle lenses far from useful. There's nothing romantically nostalgic about the farming methods in use.
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