Field Labor -Tools-long view
Two more for today to end my ballon ride story.
And so we floated along in the morning light, watching the people going about their morning routines below us. All of us snapping away at the scenes unfolding before us.
Then we passed over the Nile and some chatter started among the crew. The we got lower still and the farmscapes were getting much closer. More chatter from the crew and then we dropped in a farmers field. We could see balloons landing everywhere off in the distance.
Then came the none to happy farmers, their families, friends other farmers nearby, passing strangers traveling on the small dirt road that held the irrigation canal and almost as many children.
As a heated discussion started to take place between or ballon team and the farmers, we were ushered out of the ballon to wait on the edge of the field. We learned later that farmers and ballon team were working out the payment for the damage we had done to their field.
While the scene was playing out the younger boys were finding it very amusing, the farmers not so much.
I imagined this same scene was taking place in the other fields where the landing mark was missed.
So I just kept snapping away at part of life that we would not have access to as well guarded tourist. It was truly fascinating.
The farmer with cows in the field posted a few weeks back was taken from this location.
This scene was on the edge of the field we landed in (we landed in the field of green in the bottom right). When I turned and saw this handmade wooden harrow resting in the field my mouth truly dropped in amazement.
All of those beautiful fields we had seen along the way by bus and boat came flooding back to mind. The piles and crates of yummy fresh veg delivered to the boats almost daily by donkey cart and sometimes trucks, all from fields not unlike these, just amazing.
I thought it almost made our local Amish farmers look modern by comparison.
I posted the larger color image to give a sense of the place. I also marvel at the skill or luck of the ballon team. We might have landed on that other brown field with fresh new sprouts emerging.
Captured in Egypt in 2006 with Panasonic FZ20. Both images were edited today on the desktop, first in Viveza then in Alien Skin Exposure X.
Field Labor -Tools-long view
Two more for today to end my ballon ride story.
And so we floated along in the morning light, watching the people going about their morning routines below us. All of us snapping away at the scenes unfolding before us.
Then we passed over the Nile and some chatter started among the crew. The we got lower still and the farmscapes were getting much closer. More chatter from the crew and then we dropped in a farmers field. We could see balloons landing everywhere off in the distance.
Then came the none to happy farmers, their families, friends other farmers nearby, passing strangers traveling on the small dirt road that held the irrigation canal and almost as many children.
As a heated discussion started to take place between or ballon team and the farmers, we were ushered out of the ballon to wait on the edge of the field. We learned later that farmers and ballon team were working out the payment for the damage we had done to their field.
While the scene was playing out the younger boys were finding it very amusing, the farmers not so much.
I imagined this same scene was taking place in the other fields where the landing mark was missed.
So I just kept snapping away at part of life that we would not have access to as well guarded tourist. It was truly fascinating.
The farmer with cows in the field posted a few weeks back was taken from this location.
This scene was on the edge of the field we landed in (we landed in the field of green in the bottom right). When I turned and saw this handmade wooden harrow resting in the field my mouth truly dropped in amazement.
All of those beautiful fields we had seen along the way by bus and boat came flooding back to mind. The piles and crates of yummy fresh veg delivered to the boats almost daily by donkey cart and sometimes trucks, all from fields not unlike these, just amazing.
I thought it almost made our local Amish farmers look modern by comparison.
I posted the larger color image to give a sense of the place. I also marvel at the skill or luck of the ballon team. We might have landed on that other brown field with fresh new sprouts emerging.
Captured in Egypt in 2006 with Panasonic FZ20. Both images were edited today on the desktop, first in Viveza then in Alien Skin Exposure X.