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Post by byuphoto on Sept 6, 2006 21:17:54 GMT -5
Around here september means the harvest of Louisiana white gold. We have other crops but cotton is still king. Also the Tallow trees start to change colors  Canon G2 |
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Post by GeneW on Sept 6, 2006 22:16:00 GMT -5
This is a very interesting shot, Rick, and the colours are saturated and warm. Man, that G2 is a good 'un, isn't it?
Gene
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Post by backalley on Sept 6, 2006 22:39:33 GMT -5
great colours! i should have taken that g2 out more often...  |
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Post by John Parry on Sept 7, 2006 2:37:57 GMT -5
Rick,
So that's what it looks like. We generally see it as Y-fronts!! Joking aside, I never knew what cotton looked like - it could have grown on trees for all I knew. Anyone else got anything growing (or running) locally that they tend to take for granted, but may be of interest to others? (I'm thinking of those mayflowers I posted - some members hadn't realised there was a real mayflower).
Regards - John
ps - Great composition Rick.
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Post by byuphoto on Sept 7, 2006 6:04:59 GMT -5
Never reallt thought about others never seeing a cotton field. yes the G2 is a remakable camera. Thanks for all the kind words here are a couple more  closeup of a cotton boll  and another field. That is irragation pipe laying in the trench |
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Post by Randy on Sept 7, 2006 6:13:43 GMT -5
"in dem old cotton fields back home..." Vera nice Rick, I've seen folks picking that stuff from a distance back when I was drivin an 18 wheeler. People still don't pick that by hand in this day and age, do they? I remember seeing a plant close up and they had some kind of prickers on them.
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Post by byuphoto on Sept 7, 2006 6:18:51 GMT -5
No, They have these huge machines that pick up to 6 rows at a time. When I was six my Dad had a little 40 acre patch and we picked it by hand. My little hands were bleeding by the end of the first day. I will post a photo of a cotton picker and go over and get some photos of the gotton gin in operation. Funnty the things we take for granted others have never seen
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Post by herron on Sept 7, 2006 8:30:21 GMT -5
Had some distant relatives in southern Georgia that we visited once in a while when I was a kid. Saw cotton fields on some of those trips...but never saw it being harvested. Those folks passed on about 35 years ago...haven't seen a cotton field since!  ----- Rick: Are those trees turning already? |
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Post by byuphoto on Sept 7, 2006 15:58:09 GMT -5
yes, the tallow trees turn here in sept.
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Post by GeneW on Sept 8, 2006 16:11:31 GMT -5
It's interesting to think about cotton. I'm not sure where its cultivation originated but in the back of my mind I think it was in Egypt (I'm too lazy today to Google it).
I've often thought, though, what a tremendous impact it must have had on Europeans (are UK dwellers also considered Europeans now?) who until it became commonplace wore clothing fabricated mainly from wool, leather and flax, all rough-textured products. That soft cotton feel must have blown them away, to use today's idiom.
Thanks for these photos Rick!
Gene
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Post by doubs43 on Sept 8, 2006 20:34:51 GMT -5
No, They have these huge machines that pick up to 6 rows at a time. When I was six my Dad had a little 40 acre patch and we picked it by hand. My little hands were bleeding by the end of the first day. I will post a photo of a cotton picker and go over and get some photos of the gotton gin in operation. Funnty the things we take for granted others have never seen This isn't a "picker" but a machine that compacts the cotton into HUGE bales for transport to the gin. The next time I see one of the bales ready for transport, I'll try to get a picture.  Walker |
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Post by byuphoto on Sept 8, 2006 22:53:42 GMT -5
dpwn here we call those module makers, the cotton gin use module hauler trucks to take the modules to the gin. Each one contains about 5 compressed bales of cotton to be gined
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Post by doubs43 on Sept 9, 2006 0:37:13 GMT -5
dpwn here we call those module makers, the cotton gin use module hauler trucks to take the modules to the gin. Each one contains about 5 compressed bales of cotton to be gined They may call them the same thing here in GA but I can't say for sure. I grew up in rural MD where most farms were dairy farms with a few beef cattle farms here and there. Crops were corn, wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa for hay and the like. In Southern MD and on the Eastern Shore there was a fair amount of tobacco grown and I think a little cotton but that wasn't near to me. Any cotton would have been picked by hand at that time. I've seen as many as three and four bales together here in GA waiting to be picked up but I've never asked anyone what they called the machine that packed the cotton into the bales. Walker |
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Post by John Parry on Sept 9, 2006 13:23:42 GMT -5
I really should have known more about it - for "this is the land where cotton is king". Where I grew up, there was a spinning mill at the top of our street, with half a dozen more in the immediate area - each one belching smoke from their factory chimneys. In those days there was a saying; "England's bread hangs from Lancashire thread".
No more - they are all long gone. As a young seaman I did a little "moonlighting" while on leave. One of my jobs was to convert a "Garnet" machine, originally used for picking the bits of stalk and other rubbish out of the cotton and teasing it out so that it could be spun. It was to be used for teasing out kapok for use in sleeping bags.
Can't say that I regret the passing of the 'dark satanic mills'. The air is much, much cleaner now.
Regards - John
ps Don't know if anyone caught the BBC's 'Last Night of the Proms' (I know it's broadcast worldwide) - but one of the venues for 'The Proms in the Park' - Heaton Park, is the place I was talking about in this post.....
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