Agriculture Archives - Chris de Blank Photography

Oh wow, where is this year going?? Half way through March already and this is only my first blog post for the year. Such neglect of my website. I will have to try and rectify that over coming months. I’ve a few ideas for topics rolling around in my head but getting them out is another issue. But for now I’d just like to talk about my results at the Wagin Woolorama Photography Competition last weekend and to give this Agricultural Show a plug as it is a really enjoyable day out.

Photo Comp

Firstly I’d like to thank the organisers of the Photography Competition that runs as part of Wagin Woolorama. Glenys and her team do a great job every year putting together this competition.

1st Place ‘A Half of Anything’ – Repeating Doorways

This year, they introduced two new special categories, each with great prize money for the winner. I was fortunate enough to take out the Portrait category with this image of the Namibian man starting a fire the tradition way, which most of you have possibly seen before. If you’d like to see the winning landscape image by my friend Richard Hall please click here.

1st Place Portrait – Fire Starter

Here’s my other entries that did well this year.

2nd Place Open Colour – KT The Cockatoo

Highly Commended Mono – Moses Rock

Two Trees - Highly Commended Landscape 2019 Wagin Woolorama

Highly Commended Landscape – Two Trees

Evening Rodeo

After the day events have finished, like the shearing, sheep dog trials and judging of the animals, there’s the evening rodeo. I love to watch the action and also the fashions. The checked shirts, bright colours, fancy jeans and those hand made leather saddles. Love it!

The dust, setting sun and cowboy hats

Bright coloured clothing

Cowgirl clothing

Bronc riding

Guerrero Negro to San Quintin

What a great cool temperature today for riding, but a little windy. We were riding at high altitude again so up and down and around mountains etc, then through the Valle de los Cirios with the Cardon Cactus and Cirios Trees. Most of the day was spent riding through desert like landscape.

Berry growing is a major industry in the Baja. Strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and blueberry, I’m guessing that the majority gets exported as we didn’t see too many in our travels. A little here and there in the fruit platters at breakfast. Watermelon and rockmelon were common place. Many of the fields were protected by the elements like in the picture at the end of this post. Tomatoes are grown in abundance also, with San Quintin being one of the world’s largest tomato growing regions in the world.