mervfrench PHOTOGRAPHY

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mervfrench — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:23:43 +0000

Hi all. Well the heading says it all, I have nothing to show at the moment.

2011 has been a busy year as I’m sure it has been for you all. My goal for 2012 is to shoot as often as I can and to just make it a fun life, who knows how long we are here for.

Happy New Year to you all and I hope it brings you much healthiness and happiness as that is really all that matters.

Cheers All.

Inside the cab.

mervfrench — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:08 +0000

For those of you interested , which is probably no one, this is inside the cab of the new John Deere S680 harvester. The beast is pictured in the previous post.

The dealer has taken the header on to another farm for a demo so we are back to 4 headers now. It’s surprising the amount of extra work you get done with one extra machine.

It was a damp day today after a shower of rain last night so no work today.

” Into It “

mervfrench — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:08:19 +0000

As the weather improves and becomes a little warmer the harvest is stating to move into top gear. I took this today as the 5 machines munched through the crop. The local John Deere Dealer bought out a brand new demo machine to try out. It is the latest model to be bought out by John Deere and its the first time it its harvested anywhere in WA. It is the machine on the left. It was quite a sight to line the 4 machines from the farm and the new demo as well.

The new John Deere S 680 with 500 hp of grunt.

Hard Work.

mervfrench — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:26:33 +0000

Another one from the Royal Show. This was at the shearing competition, something that I love to watch. I used to shear sheep in a former life so I appreciate the skill and hard work involved.

We used to call ourselves ” manuel fibre removers “

There’s nothing much more Australian than sheep shearing.

Take That !!!

mervfrench — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:11:57 +0000

One from the Royal Show a couple of weeks ago. The show offers some great photo opportunities and is a good fun day out.

I went along twice and shot a lot of images that I’m yet to sort through. You know what it’s like …. it all takes time.

Rains Coming.

mervfrench — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:23:30 +0000

There has been quite a bit of rain about in the last week or so. It has done no good at all to any hay that has been cut and laying on the ground unfortunately.

It has helped the wheat crops but from now on rain is not going to do anything as the crops are ready to turn off and harvest is not far away.

This was shot out Cunderdin way as a rain storm was approaching.

Canola Swaths.

mervfrench — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:27:54 +0000

This was taken over a week ago, the same night as the sunset below. Behind me after I shot the sunset I thought these rows of freshly swathed Canola looked kinda nice.

I’d forgotten about these shots until I put the card back in tonight and saw them so I decided to stitch it up and see how it came out. There was a real smokey haze around that night as you can see.

Little Green Tractor.

mervfrench — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:03:04 +0000

Still on the hay theme, what else it’s hay time out here, I went out again tonight to have a look around.

When I was going through them tonight I thought I’d try the tilt shift with this one. Not perfect but I kinda like it.

Forecast is for showers tomorrow , not good for the hay but it might produce a decent sky.

Same Same but Different.

mervfrench — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:14:47 +0000

I went back to the same place as below tonight as it looked like the sunset may be ok.

There was a fire in the west as you can see by the smoke which helped the sun along a little.

The bales that were here yesterday have been picked up and bundled by machine ready to be carted to the sheds.

The Show

mervfrench — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:47:37 +0000

We had a day at the show this year which was pretty good as I hadn’t been for a few years.

There is a lot to shoot at the show and there were a lot of photographers wandering around. I have a few more to go through but this one stood out to me for a start.