The third and the last one are my favourites. The last one looks like the end of a story, gong off into sunset…
rqsays
Giliell
Actually, it’s more like the beginning, as you’re gazing into a bright, potential-full sunrise. (For real -- sunrise on the way to the morning train for work back in I think late November.)
rq
You’d need to have a hell of a writer to make “as I was riding into sunrise on my way to work one November morning” work.
rqsays
Giliell
Give me a few days. :D
chigau (ever-elliptical)says
I cannot made heads or tails of the first pic.
rqsays
chigau
Well, there’s two heads and two tails… if that makes things any easier.
chigau (ever-elliptical)says
rq
ah
I thought there were more:
a cat and a chinchilla being cuddled by a grizzly bear.
rqsays
No, that’s just my office chair in the background.
Also the cat effect, bending the reality of space time to their own nefarious yet mysterious purposes.
Ice Swimmersays
The glowing clouds in the last one are beautiful. The first is warm and furry, but I wouldn’t put my head is there lest it start bleeding and breathing become difficult.
What are they harvesting in the third picture from the end, rye or caraway with a small combine (not visible from behind the trailer) or something else?
rqsays
Corn! Corn for biofuel. I don’t know how big a ‘small’ combine is dimensionally, but this one probably qualifies (it’s also a Jaguar). It’s an annual tradition to take the kids to Friend’s farm during the harvest: we get free corn, and the kids get a ride on some tractors and the combine (plus a good view of modern working farm life, complete with aged technologies working together with brand new EU-subsidized technologies), and everyone is happy in the end.
Ice Swimmersays
rq @ 10
Ok, so corn (maize) grows well enough in Latvia? Here, hobbyists may grow some sweet corn (I think the Southwestern Archipelago is the best place for it), but it isn’t a commercial crop widely grown in Finland.
I wanted to grow some corn when I was a kid so we (AFAIR) pre-planted it in pots, planted a few at the summer cottage and managed to get a few somewhat mature cobs which I was able to eat.
Saadsays
These are fantastic! My favorite is the third one from the bottom.
From the mood of these photos, I suspect you’d make a great urban decay photographer.
rqsays
Thanks, Saad! As it happens, I love urban decay! But I don’t get much opportunity to play around with photographing it. Although -- if memory serves, I sent Caine a few just recently that probably qualify as urban decay.
Ice Swimmer
It’s corn for biofuel, so probably a specific strain (or one of a selection) as listed in EU subsidies. It’s edible, but not a species developed for flavour. I suppose it grows reasonably well, and I think the edible strains grown here have been specially developed for the shorter growing season. At any rate, it’s expensive.
But it is quite a change from Soviet days, when it was national policy to grow corn everywhere (even where it grew poorly -- I think it was Khrushchev’s idea, and he even recommended a strain unsuitable for all climes), so fields would be sown with corn about three meters deep each side, with the middle portion some regular grain (wheat, barley, buckwheat, etc.). This in case any Party officials came by for photo-ops -- you could prove you were doing your kolkhozian duty and growing corn!* If climatic conditions are right, you can grow corn extremely well (mostly in the western areas, where temperatures tend to be more temperate and precipitation is regular -- though this can go the other way, too, with too much precipitation; legend has it that the first corn grown in the Liepāja region was 4 m high and had to be harvested by axe… **).
* Disclaimer: not sure how much of that is post-Soviet legend, as this information can be found in the Museum of Occupation.
** Info in Latvian.
The third and the last one are my favourites. The last one looks like the end of a story, gong off into sunset…
Giliell
Actually, it’s more like the beginning, as you’re gazing into a bright, potential-full sunrise. (For real -- sunrise on the way to the morning train for work back in I think late November.)
rq
You’d need to have a hell of a writer to make “as I was riding into sunrise on my way to work one November morning” work.
Giliell
Give me a few days. :D
I cannot made heads or tails of the first pic.
chigau
Well, there’s two heads and two tails… if that makes things any easier.
rq
ah
I thought there were more:
a cat and a chinchilla being cuddled by a grizzly bear.
No, that’s just my office chair in the background.
Also the cat effect, bending the reality of space time to their own nefarious yet mysterious purposes.
The glowing clouds in the last one are beautiful. The first is warm and furry, but I wouldn’t put my head is there lest it start bleeding and breathing become difficult.
What are they harvesting in the third picture from the end, rye or caraway with a small combine (not visible from behind the trailer) or something else?
Corn! Corn for biofuel. I don’t know how big a ‘small’ combine is dimensionally, but this one probably qualifies (it’s also a Jaguar). It’s an annual tradition to take the kids to Friend’s farm during the harvest: we get free corn, and the kids get a ride on some tractors and the combine (plus a good view of modern working farm life, complete with aged technologies working together with brand new EU-subsidized technologies), and everyone is happy in the end.
rq @ 10
Ok, so corn (maize) grows well enough in Latvia? Here, hobbyists may grow some sweet corn (I think the Southwestern Archipelago is the best place for it), but it isn’t a commercial crop widely grown in Finland.
I wanted to grow some corn when I was a kid so we (AFAIR) pre-planted it in pots, planted a few at the summer cottage and managed to get a few somewhat mature cobs which I was able to eat.
These are fantastic! My favorite is the third one from the bottom.
From the mood of these photos, I suspect you’d make a great urban decay photographer.
Thanks, Saad! As it happens, I love urban decay! But I don’t get much opportunity to play around with photographing it. Although -- if memory serves, I sent Caine a few just recently that probably qualify as urban decay.
Ice Swimmer
It’s corn for biofuel, so probably a specific strain (or one of a selection) as listed in EU subsidies. It’s edible, but not a species developed for flavour. I suppose it grows reasonably well, and I think the edible strains grown here have been specially developed for the shorter growing season. At any rate, it’s expensive.
But it is quite a change from Soviet days, when it was national policy to grow corn everywhere (even where it grew poorly -- I think it was Khrushchev’s idea, and he even recommended a strain unsuitable for all climes), so fields would be sown with corn about three meters deep each side, with the middle portion some regular grain (wheat, barley, buckwheat, etc.). This in case any Party officials came by for photo-ops -- you could prove you were doing your kolkhozian duty and growing corn!* If climatic conditions are right, you can grow corn extremely well (mostly in the western areas, where temperatures tend to be more temperate and precipitation is regular -- though this can go the other way, too, with too much precipitation; legend has it that the first corn grown in the Liepāja region was 4 m high and had to be harvested by axe… **).
* Disclaimer: not sure how much of that is post-Soviet legend, as this information can be found in the Museum of Occupation.
** Info in Latvian.