Harvest time

It’s that time of year when there are a lot of farmers bringing in their crops. However, the weather this last few weeks has not been at it's best. So, I was pleased to find these contract farmers bringing in the crop from these Essex fields. I managed to have a chat with one of them & he tells me they are from Wales, they were proudly flying their Welsh Flag.

                                                        © Lionel Callow 2021

Harvest 2019

It’s that time of the year when all the farms in my part of the world, Essex & Hertfordshire, are ready to have their crops gathered in. Most of the fields have turned a beautiful golden colour, so I spent a few days gathering images of this year’s harvest.  

This crop has been grown for a thatcher. I was attracted to this crop by the way it had been gathered. When I was a boy this was the way all crops where gathered in by the workers & put into stooks, now of course it is all done by machinery.

 Now for some of the work that this crop will be used for.

These are some of the fields now ready to be harvested. 

© Lionel Callow 2019

Hertfordshire & Essex Harvest Time

It's that time of the year again bringing in the harvest. So over the next week or so I will be trying to get a few shots of the ripe crop and the combines at work. I love the colours of the country at this time of the year.

© Lionel Callow 2017

Bringing in the harvest

Sunday was such a beautiful day Carol and I decided to take a drive out into the East Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire countryside. The idea was to visit places well off the beaten track, villages we had never visited before even though they are less than an hour from where we live. I think that most of us just stick to the main roads to get to our destination as quickly as we can. So the day was spent taking any small road that would take us as far away from the main roads as possible.

This first post concentrates on bringing in the harvest, the subsequent posts look at some of the interesting buildings we found.

The Product 

 I think I have chosen the wrong place to stand. OMG, my sensor, oh well it’s due a clean anyway.

© Lionel Callow 2016

Harvest 2

I am still playing with ICM and at the same time the harvest, so I made another quick visit this morning to the Essex fields before its too late and the season is over.

© Lionel Callow 2016