Crop Harvest (February/March 2019)

There was a lot of farming activity in the local fields towards the end of February and the start of March. In one particular field the crop, possibly sugar beat, was harvested and the landscape that had broadly stayed the same during the winter changed with the new spring season.

This might seem like a small detail, not worthy of its own post, but I was surprised by how photographically engaging the whole process became. I could sit on a bench, dedicated to the memory of a local person who enjoyed the same view, and watch the green field turn into a rich earthy brown with the contours of the landscape explored by the sunlight passing between clouds.

The sequence of photographs started with the pre-harvest view in early February:

The harvesting took place over a couple of days leaving sections of the crop still in the ground:

Finally, these were the scenes after the harvest with sunlight falling on different parts of the landscape including a hint of a rainbow in the last image.