Fieldwork
A little play on words this Wednesday. Some intense harvesting going on, I think of leafy green vegetables.
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I started this blog in Jan 2007 as a member of the City Daily Photo family representing the village of Villigen. I'm a transplant to Switzerland and keeping the blog was a way for me to keep a record of new things I learnt while sharing with others. I was on a long LONG break, and now I post only sporadically although I still have hopes of posting more regularly. Thanks for stopping by and drop me a line if you have questions or comments. Camera and other information at the foot of the page. 20150322
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My current camera is an Olympus OM-D E-M10 (2014). Main lens: Panasonic 20mm f/1.7. Zoom/macro: Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8. Until mid-2014 I had an Olympus PEN-EP2 (2010). Up until June 2010 I used a Panasonic Lumix FZ7 (2006). Occasionally there may appear photos taken with either a Nikon Coolpix 950 that I've had since 2000 or a used Nikon Coolpix 990 I acquired in 2009.
11 comments:
ah ... now I can see summer kicking in. Very back-breaking this sort of task.
I will g-map Villigen ...
Still a lot of manual work, I guess. Over here machines have taken over most tasks and one day they'll probably be driving around by themselves without the farmer even being around.
My back heurts me when I am piking my strawberries up during one half hour, I will be not able to harvest some vegetables in a large field !
I enlarged but could not identify the crop.
I guess all your Barley is now collected. How's the wheat?
Do you live on a farm?
Halcyon: No, but I'm surrounded by them in Villigen.
Okay have trawled over Villigen courtesy of G-maps. Know that you are relatively close to the German border and that your village is wedged between a large river (name?) and a heavily wooded area whose most prominent feature is a massive quarry that is very scar-like.
I also notice that the Valais - to which you took us courtesy of your blog - is quite some distance away in the southern part of Switzerland.
What is that area of land on the satellite map that appears circular just a little way to the north of Villigen? It looks very agricultural and as though it winds up a hillside that has remnant bush at the top only. It is out further north along the Mandacherstrasse. There is only so far that I can zoom in but as you go further up the hill, the plantings become more intensive in very neat rows. Surely it is not vineyards - too cold I would have thought!
Yes, we can be in Deutschland in about 30 minutes by car from Villigen. The river is the Aare, and I've often written about it. See this listing of posts related to it:
Aare
The massive quarry is something I've been meaning to get out to photograph, but I haven't managed yet. It feeds our local cement plant. The conveyor system for it stretches across our fields as you might have noticed in some of my posts:
Cement
As you note, Valais is on the other side of the country, so to speak. There's a new fast tunnel through the Alps called NEAT (pronounced something like neigh-aught) which means that with public transportation we can reach the area I explored (Moosalp) in about 3.5 hours (door to door, practically) from our apartment. I like to show other parts of CH on my blog (hence based in Villigen) because I get a lot of visitors from all over and feel I should show how close everything is, the variety (IMHO) all easily within 4 hours of here.
Indeed, those rows you noticed are vineyards! I'm not sure the wine is that great (not enough sun, I thnk and I don't drink anyway) however, it keeps people occupied :-)
Some posts on vineyards here:
Vineyards
If you continue along the river toward the top of the map, you'll come to the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), a national research facility. This old post of mine might be interesting as a starting point, click on the PSI label to see my other posts related to it:
The SLS building
Thank you so much. I have now trawled considerably through your posts and it is mostly slotting into place. I know people need employment and an income - but that cement pipe is an eyesore!
However, it is mightily compensated by the beauty all around it. Like a lot of Europe, Villingen is trying to meld the new with the old and sometimes they do not sit easily side-by-side.
It is interesting to see how your blog has evolved over the 18 months - from the size of the border to the length of the text. You list your cameras at the end of your category each time. Do you still have the same cameras that you started with? I am reaching the limit of what a Canon S3 will allow me to achieve and am considering a Canon 40D. I would value your opinion.
Am I close in supposing that you are an American academic in Switzerland on a research grant?
Julie: The rock pipe for the cement keeps our local taxes low (I think) so we put up with it. :-)
Incidentally, there is, in fact, a VilliNgen in Germany not too far from here. A frequently made mix-up.
I was verbose in the early days of the blog. Now, a lack of time and my general tendency to terseness has taken over (though one would be forgiven for thinking otherwise based on these recent comments of mine).
Apropos camera, I'm still using the Panasonic FZ7. Am itching for an upgrade, but can't decide whether to go the dSLR route or not. And if not, whether to buy an ultrazoom again, or go the other direction and get something with a wide-angle lens.
Lastly, I'm not American but I am US-educated/trained and I used to work in research back there. Right now, I'm looking for employment.
I picked up the latest Panasonic brochure yesterday and will widen my choice and look at the FZ18 and FZ50. There are so many options that one has to trade off against other features! And then there is cost ...
Thank you for the conversation. It has been enjoyable.
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