Regular visitors to this website will know I’m a sucker for hayrolls. Those perfectly cyclindrical shapes, scattered over fields, makes for mighty compelling compositions. Add on new snow and frost and you have scenes like this. What a blessing it is to live in a land where this type of photography is possible. 🙂 Nikon D7100, tripod, polarizing filter
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Hay in my area (Imperial Valley, California) is stacked in large, rectangular bales. The local Navy base is surrounded by hay farms and onlookers climb atop the 12-foot stacks to watch the Blue Angels practice. On take-offs and landings, the pilots can see the “hay-balers” beneath them.
Due to liability issues, farmers have relocated the hay bales, but spectators have resorted to standing atop their vehicles.
[I included an amazing video of this but the comment didn’t post. Some blogs don’t allow inserted links in the comments.]
Environmentalists have sought to curb the production of hay — which is sold to the local cattle ranchers — because the crop requires a whole lot of water … and then there is the issue of cows emitting methane gas. Naysayers would prefer that hay farmers and cattlemen would simply go away.
In full disclosure, our family farm — which is now owned by a conglomerate — has always been a hay farm.
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Hay in my area (Imperial Valley, California) is stacked in large, rectangular bales. The local Navy base is surrounded by hay farms and onlookers climb atop the 12-foot stacks to watch the Blue Angels practice. On take-offs and landings, the pilots can see the “hay-balers” beneath them.
Due to liability issues, farmers have relocated the hay bales, but spectators have resorted to standing atop their vehicles.
[I included an amazing video of this but the comment didn’t post. Some blogs don’t allow inserted links in the comments.]
Environmentalists have sought to curb the production of hay — which is sold to the local cattle ranchers — because the crop requires a whole lot of water … and then there is the issue of cows emitting methane gas. Naysayers would prefer that hay farmers and cattlemen would simply go away.
In full disclosure, our family farm — which is now owned by a conglomerate — has always been a hay farm.