Hay Baling (August 2021)

The harvest theme for the late August photography continued in a field off Combs Lane, on a path which is part of the Robin Hood Way. It is a route that I often walk and I am always on the look out for something interesting to photograph.

On this occasion it was the lines and textures of cut grass that caught my eye and in particular the sense of order from chaos. 

The grass, presumably cut for hay, was neatly distributed in rows, rolling with the contours of the land and conforming to the rules of perspective. Yet, each line was a chaotic jumble without any order providing a visual contrast that I tried to capture in the following set of images:

The following day I returned to the same field and this time the rows of cut grasses had been gathered into film covered hay bales…a re-ordering process, but a job not quite finished, as the bales waited patiently for collection:

The final subject from this field was a small series of abstract shots from one of the bales that had been dropped across the path. The tightness of the film wrapping created a reflective surface with stretching textures and overlapping lines: