Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A truly noble exercise! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 06 Sep 2018, at 21:09, Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Hello Luggers, > On Tuesday some 60 neighbours gathered at Richard?s Hop Farm on Pender > Island > to harvest his hop crop which he sells to the Hoyne Brewery in Victoria. > > The community building exercise takes about 4 or 5 hours - including > a break for lunch with beer provided by Hoyne - who send their truck over > on the morning ferry - to take the freshly picked hops back to the brewery > for immediate cooking. The end product is Wolf Vine beer - highly sought > after > and in very limited quantities. I have already ordered 6 big bottles from > the liquor store for our thanksgiving dinner with the family. > > Here is a sub folder in my 2018 folder of the Hop harvest. Almost all > pictures are > taken with my repaired M10 and the Tri-Elmar at various focal lengths. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/ > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/> > > We managed to pick 40 barrels (each weighing about 12 pounds) of Cascade > Hops and 10 barrels of Sterling in the sunny 4 - 5 hours we were there. > > I wanted to highlight one photo - the reward for the day: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/ > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/> > > You can look large if you like. C&C always welcome. > > Howard > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information