Field Of Gold
Field Of Gold
Originally uploaded by Liam O’Neill.
The yellow crop is called Rapeseed, and it’s a very popular crop in these parts. Rapeseed is used to make biodiesel, amongst other things.
I would have liked a better defined sky, but it was a hazy day. I decided I would go back another day when the weather was a little more co-operative. When I did I found a very green field.
A few days after I took this shot, and a few days before I returned, we had about 2 days of wind and rain, and it had stripped the flowers from the plants. It wasn’t just this field, it seemed it was every field of rapeseed in Hampshire, at least! I was glad I’d taken this shot when I did.
Blue Yellow Green
Originally uploaded by Liam O’Neill.
Actually, it’s not true that all the rapeseed flowers were blown off. This little patch a few fields away did survive, probably because they were sheltered by the row of trees. Just outsidde the frame of the picture the flowers end and it’s back to the flowerless plants. Indeed, without the lack of flowers I don’t think I could have taken this picture. Rapeseed has a very heavy smell. It’s a very strange sensation to stand next to a field fo the stuff. It actually makes it hard to breath. I can only imagine it’s something to do with the pollen. To get this picture I had to take the marked footpath across the field from where the car was parked, and I really don’t think I would, or could, have had the field been the sea of yellow it was a few days previously.