Camera phone competition August 2019: Harvest
 

The August theme will be Harvest.
Since August is the big harvest month in the north, I thought that could be a suitable theme. So go out and pick some peas or berry, reap some wheat, drag something edible out of the dirt or just pick an apple. Any harvesting is OK.

Rules are as usual :
Photos must be taken during this month (after theme is announced) and posted before voting starts
Photos must be taken by the posting member
Photos must be taken with a camera phone
Users post only one photo per entry
Users can change the entry only once
Users must name the phone they used (and software if not stock)
Post processing is allowed but you have to say what you did
3 days voting period starts on August 28th at 20:00 UTC and ends on the evening of August 31st

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Great theme!

Not my entry since shot last week by my wife.
Not even my work since she does all the picking.
But i can attest tasty things happen over here :)

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considering how the weather was/still is awful this season I don't think that the harvest will be near as good as the last season. But I hope there will be something for this subject by the end of the month.

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Nice. Something in the squash family, but what?

In my old garden, I learned way too much about the sex lives of those plants . . .

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yay, thanks for teaching me squash family, did not know that term. It indeed is a zucchini.
We are participating in a "collaborative field" where a farmer prepares smaller parcels with preplanted things in rows and rents them to locals to look after and harvest their share.

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I'm almost sure I've eaten that flower stuffed with something, sometime somewhere, many years ago. :rolleyes:

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yeah, but in Germany it's more common to eat the green fruit instead. Usually they are eaten about 20cm long, though I can remember from private gardening they get harvested as long as 40cm and more than 10cm diameter.
At that size you would cut them half, spooning out the middle and fill it up with something meaty. Then bake it in the oven.

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so, something like this :D

not my competition entry
https://i.postimg.cc/Wp8kRPGz/20kawxx.jpg

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yeah, like this...

and that would be more like an entry for last month's theme :D

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You could have your blossom and eat your fruit too on mornings when you have a surplus of male flowers beyond what you need for polination. I've seen but not tried them fried -- the flowers, that is.

Silly anecdote 1, As a child I didn't recognize Zucchini at the grocers as they were harvested at the more common small size, whereas my mom would allow them to mature to the size of your forearm in the home garden!

Anecdote 2, It was a year before I realized that I could make the 'courgette' recipes in a British cookbook I'd been using
:rolleyes:

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To confuse you further, you could also try some marrow :D

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Ok, and here we go...

This topic suit quite well for me, cause i'm "ex" farmer and know something about that... from 80's, not any more ;)

Now a'days i only have very, very, very little forest (not Gump) and that also needs harvesting cause we have to take care of our nature and keep new plants growing as much as possible...

So, this first picture is one shot my skill's, how to cut down trees... "Like a glove " ;) - N9, little cropping, and scaled by Gimp.



Second picture does NOT participate but just showing my fine and highly qualified tools to harwesting forest...

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Not my harvest but my entry this time :D
All farmers around me cut their crops this week and left those nice towers of Strohballen out to dry. No idea what they are called in english. Deeple and Google failed but it translates to straw bales.

The problem with those is they "somehow" start to burn rather quickly. No idea if it's the farmers themselves looking for the insurance money or just juvenile "jokes".
But the one i took a photo of was the last remaining today after most of them burned down all night over.

Taken with XA2 and pulled all the registers in Darktable.

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/20...compressed.jpg

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Hay bales, would be the usual English term.

Tedious and possibly inaccurate explanation follows . . .

"Hay" and "straw" are often used interchangeably, but if you're buying a bale the difference is important. Straw is lightweight dry plant matter, stems mostly, with little nutritive value. It can be used for animal bedding, providing a mulch on scatter-seeded lawns, stuffing scarecrows in movies . . . Hay, on the other hand, has a higher water and nutrition content and is fed to livestock. If you see a footstool sized bale of straw or hay and you can lift it over your head, it's straw. If you can barely lift it because you're not the hulk (or not a farmer), it's hay.

Oh BTW, just the heat from the metabolism of composting bacteria can be enough to start a fire. So no mischief is actually required . . . but of course I don't know the ne'er-do-wellishness of your local ne'er-do-wells. ;)

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or to further simplify things.........
hay is grass and straw is from cereal/grain plants

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Once you start thinking of a contest theme, you start seeing it everywhere . . . sort of. Or maybe it's just me. Anyway . . .

Not my entry, but some amusing stuff I've come across so far:

A Harvester, or Harvestman (or daddy longlegs, or granddaddy longlegs). This one hitched a ride on my shoulder.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c4a3f020_o.jpg

Also not an entry. Although a photo with another picture within it could be art, this is just a snapshot of a painting I found at the frozen custard shop. (It's for sale if you like it.) Titled: "128 People & You"

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a3997408_o.jpg

The title refers to these signs, which can be found along Kansas highways.

https://flic.kr/p/7X8nTS

This is an older version of the sign, the latest value on new signs is 150 people + you. Of course this is some inadvertent lying with statistics. Sure, there are about 2.2 million farms in the US, and something like 325 million people, so on average there's about 150 farms per person. But in reality, there aren't many mean-size farms, just a bunch of huge farms and lots of little ones that may really be rich folks' big yards.

Real contest entry coming Soon.

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N900 was resting for the summer cause the camera died so I used an iPhone 4. Now I changed back to N900 and the camera works again! Lets see if it works long enough for me to take a harvest picture.

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Very nice to read that! N900 is quite old, so sometimes have to give some rest for one... Waiting we are...

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"Autumn Berries", SFOS/XperiaX with slight cropping, levels & usm in gimp
http://www.swagman.org/juice/marjasato.png

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Wow, you can almost hear those berries calling, "juice me!" :D

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This is from my own crops. The carrots are fine but the parsnips need to grow another month.
Xperia X stock photo app and no finishing.

https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/20190817_132934.jpg

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Unfortunately not much to harvest here. The only thing which is worth to harvest (I don't know if one can speek of harvest on such a small scale):

Xperia X added a vignette with gimp:

https://i.postimg.cc/B4YkvjPQ/20190818-101110.jpg

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Here in Brazil we have a popular saying specially applied to the politics... when a politician takes some absurd idea from his hat, something that doesn't exist in anywhere else in the world, we call that idea "jabuticaba". That's because this species supposedly exists only in Brazil. This specimen is from my backyard.
Samsung M30
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ug4p3ivvg1...45402.jpg?dl=1
Sorry, couldn't rotate the picture.

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Tic toc...

About 14 hours left only. :eek:

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This picture was taken shortly before leaving for vacation so there has not been time to do postprocessing.
Taken with Xperia X stock camera on my balcony.
https://i.postimg.cc/HLbFptnc/20190809-133457.jpg

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XA2, cropped.

https://i.lensdump.com/i/iT85GK.jpg

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...75727952_o.jpg

Not much of a shot, but it's what I've got.

Corn with Cropduster, Middle of America.

Xperia X, Sailfish X Camera, cropped in digikam, window reflection by Toyota.

Dusty Crophopper is spraying a nice crop of zea mays. This stuff is probably feed corn meant for livestock and is definitely genetically modified to resist glyphosate.

Also added for fun, the harbinger of harvest, some variety of dog-day cicada:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c7a9bb46_o.jpg

Of course, it's his song that tells us harvest time is coming soon, not so much his ugly face - - and a still photo just doesn't capture that rapturous chorus in all its . . . glory? My youngest child has been collecting their "shells" (exuviae). My wife scolded him, insisting he not store his collection in the fridge. So I found them in the freezer, of course.

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I am fairly sure this bush we have in finland is not related to your "jabuticaba" but the berries grow in same way, like directly off the trunk of the branches.
This is called "Tyrni" and the berries are really really sour, almost to the point of being inedible. However they are so full of vitamins and antioxidants that if one eats spoonful of them every morning through the whole winter one never catches cold. Very useful.

http://www.swagman.org/juice/tyrnit1.jpg
http://www.swagman.org/juice/tyrnit2.jpg

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Those agricultural planes always were the sign for the sheer size of your country to me.

If a farmer would try to work with a plane here i wonder what happens first.
Get shot down by annoyed Schützenbrüdern or slam into the next Freileitung :D

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Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus with great community port SFOS.

http://i.imgur.com/y8tv84m.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/K96JtuA.jpg

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It tells me that I know way too much about the private lives of fruits and vegetables that can identify the sexes of those flowers . . .

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Sorry for the delay, but here are the 9 entries, that were within the time frame, to vote for this month.
Could not make saponga's picture visible from that dropbox link, so I decided to re host it. Please correct me if I did wrong.

#1 catbus
https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...2&d=1565031659

#2 mosen
https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/20...compressed.jpg

#3 juiceme
http://www.swagman.org/juice/marjasato.png

#4 eson
https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/20190817_132934.jpg

#5 Fellfrosch
https://i.postimg.cc/B4YkvjPQ/20190818-101110.jpg

#6 saponga
https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/20190825_145402.jpg

#7 Amboss
https://i.postimg.cc/HLbFptnc/20190809-133457.jpg

#8 Pentona
https://i.lensdump.com/i/iT85GK.jpg

#9 robthebold
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...75727952_o.jpg

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...and I vote for #8 Pentona. Reminds me of an earlier competition theme, the "three of a kind" competition.

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#2 mosen
I had to leave home so no entry fom me :(

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#2 mosen
Without a question. Not only does it fit this month's theme literally, but the mood of the picture is just... impeccable.

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I vote #6 Saponga

That is some serious bokeh!
Also being a fan of portrait orientation used and done right, you got me.

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while I like all pictures my vote goes to:
mosen

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#6 Saponga

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I would have voted for robthebold, if he would have chosen the buggy creature for competition. I allways struggle with the shitty focus of my Xperia X, when it comes to macroish themes.

Anyway this picture isn't to vote, so I vote for mosens darktable advertisement ;).

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I vote for #2 mosen. "Make hay while the sun shines" is the aphorism that comes to mind when I see the darker clouds collecting in the corner.