Out to Grass

bwlchmawr · 2010-02-16T20:03:54+0000

I know I only posted here yeaterday and I promise not to make a habit of it, but I took this on Saturday afternoon and, for once, got what I visualised. Had to climb a wall (in my condition: the lady wife wasn't pleased) but was rewarded with a brief shaft of sunshine which lit up these two lovely old Fordson Majors. What do you reckon? Any good, or just a snap of two old tractors running to seed? K 100D Super with Hoya 24mm mf. ASA 400 f8. My usual BW conversion and a slight vignette to focus attention.

Your PhotosYour Photos

Add Comment

techno-termin... techno-terminator

4141 posts
17 years
Glasgow

Posted 19/02/2010 - 00:06 Link

haha - just proves I'm older than you thought

Remember getting codliver oil and malt at school ? I do - YEUCH - I was 5 then and in Yorkshire

let the education continue

proud owner of a couple of cameras and a few bits and bobs

i-Berg i-Berg

3045 posts
16 years
Melbourne,
Oz

Posted 19/02/2010 - 05:59 Link

bwichmawr wrote:
A wonderful list. Used to be milk monitor...

This reads like a prose poem: an elegy to a long lost, simpler world.

(Hope no one else reads this or we will be thought sad!)

Thanks for making my day.

Andrew

(Blimey, I'd forgotten all about dubbin and those brown footballs that got all soggy and heavy in wet weather...)

And all of this segues nicely into the very reason I was drawn to this image in the first instance Andrew - I learnt to drive on a petrol/kero Nuffield tractor. For the uninitiated - they got started (with a crank-handle, of course) on petrol, and when they were heated up, you switched over to the kerosene tank. Power kerosene was cheaper, readily available (back then), and safer.

Talk about a different world...

http://www.pbase.com/iberg