Get Pushed 114: Food at Vignouse - Milk, Cream, Butter and Cheese!
My Get Pushed partner for this week, Trisha @trishaclancy , said - "I would like you to focus on food photography. I miss everything about food in France ....from selecting the produce at the markets/boucherie/boulangerie, to the careful preparation, to the meal itself. I wonder if you can capture this for me. Hope this works!"
From her last comment it's obvious that Trisha is physchic because she choose a week when Mrs S is away; the butchers and the bakers are closed for much needed end of season holidays; I will be unable to get to the Sunday morning market because of a prior commitment... and the local supermarket doesn't allow photography!
What I'm going to offer Trisha as my response to her challenge is 'Food at Vignouse'!
And today's food is milk, cream, butter and cheese!
Well let's see: all of these are dairy products... they come from cows. What you see in the picture is maize being harvested for silage which will feed the cows until the next harvest. Sadly, cows don't each much grass anymore, well dairy cows don't anyway... so this future silage is the raw material of our dairy products after processing by a 'cow factory'. I took this picture standing in my back garden this afternoon, so it's definitely food at Vignouse.
Not sure if the challenge goes with the picture, but it's a great picture!! Same logic that i could use saying I'll eat beef (I'm vegetarian) since cows only eat plants - and sileage
@irisn Your logic seems sound to me Iris ;-) As I'm sure you realised, yesterday's quirky shot was a matter of necessity as I had no time to do anything else but I kind of got suckered into 'quirky' and hence today's off-beat approach to the challenge... sileage is food for cows after all! We'll see what Trisha @trishaclancy has to say about it.
@lleo Thanks Gwenllian - well I haven't missed a day so I guess you've been busy. OK on the treatment - after a month of SOOC I'm probably 'process binging'!!
This is great! Beautiful sky, nice pov, and wonderful contrasts. We are in the midst of harvest too, but the silage crew has been shut down because of the rain. Now freezing temperatures are arriving and they will be scurrying to finish next week before the corn dries down too much.
A few steps removed from dairy products but I like the reference. Glad I live in a country where all the cows stand in a paddock every day and eat grass.
Great to have a fellow 'outside the box' get-pushed thinker. Lucky you and Mrs. S having this as the view from your garden. I like your 'process binging' very much. Brings out all the gorgeous textures.
@jocasta Thanks Joy - well we are surrounded by fields so our view for the past few months has been just 2.5m high maize plants... tomorrow we will be able to see our neighbours across the fields again!
Wow Richard love your processing................the b&w, tones and contrast.
I love b&w and always want to take more in b&w but never seem to have the right subject matter. I will have to work on that.
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Great capture! This is proof you too have cornfields right at your back door as I do. The field behind my house was harvested yesterday while I was away so I missed the opportunity to take a picture. Yours is wonderful with a variety of machines used in the harvesting process. The angle of the tractor and trailer adds a jaunty feel to the image.
@lyndemc I was wondering if you would spot it Denise! This corn is/was about 15 metres from the back of the house and the corn at the front about 7 metres away just the other side of the lane. This combine harvester is an older model because they come down our lane which is only 5 metres wide and the huge modern machines can't get through. The farmer who rents the land around the house was lucky because today we've had torrential rain so all the other farmers are going to have to wait.
Ian
I love b&w and always want to take more in b&w but never seem to have the right subject matter. I will have to work on that.
FAV