Poppies in one of the barley fields around Charlton Down in Dorset, 5th July 2020.
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Poppies in one of the barley fields around Charlton Down in Dorset, 5th July 2020.
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Beautiful! How lovely these poppies are. So fragile and yet so vibrant.
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Love those poppies. Thanks for posting all these pictures of your daily walks, Jessica.
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Thank you, Emma.
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Thank you, John.
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These are wonderful, Jessica. I especially love Daily Walk 94.7 and Daily Walk 94.1. The color contrasts in all these are really exciting.
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The degree of ripening of the barley varies depending on the location in the field. The sun was in and out all the time as clouds moved overhead. This all made for different colour regimes in different places at different times. At the edge of the field the crop was less ripe and the stalks were naturally yellow-green or blue-green while those further into the field were yellow or golden. I also experimented with different camera settings which changed the intensity with which the colours were recorded.
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Lovely pictures, some wonderful textures and colours. Have you ever been to see the opium poppies in Dorset?
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Thank you, Philip. No, I have not but I think I have seen a photo of them if they are the pink ones. Why are opium poppies being grown here?
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Yes they are the pink ones and there have been fields of them to the west of Dorchester in the past although they will have finished flowering by now. Here is something I wrote about them: https://philipstrange.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/the-opium-fields-of-england/
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Thank you, Philip. That is very interesting. I had no idea it was being grown for medicinal purposes in England. Lovely article in the link. It would be good to go and see it myself one year. Like most, I haven’t been venturing far this year.
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Thanks Jessica, I should have written east of Dorchester not west, sorry about that.
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