[Leica] The Hop Harvest on Pender Island

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> On Sep 6, 2018, at 3:09 PM, 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
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