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| Marisa D.L. | profile | all galleries >> All My Galleries >> Look at nature as children do! >> Colza Fields | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow | map |
Brassica campestris, or field cabbage,is a cruciferous plant which grows wild throughout the greater part of Europe, and is largely cultivated in France, Switzerland and Germany for the sake of colza, as the oil from its seeds is called.
![]() This gallery, which very probably will not raise any particular interest in casual visitors, is supposed to be a wink of visual complicity and a humorously educational series for my friend Denis Vincelette. Denis has already helped me in many ways and in many fields; I have improved my relatively reduced photography skills following his patient and wise suggestions and I have also learnt to be broader minded in my approach to clichés, related with nationalities. In French Switzerland and in Quebec we speak the same language, but often we discover that we have not all the elements and references for fully understand each other’s daily life. I thought, naively and superficially, that colza field were just spread everywhere, since I’m so familiar with their presence in my environment. Denis made me realize that it’s not like that and what looked so banal and common for me, looked on the opposite a little unusual and unknown to him. I have realized that in Quebec they don’t grow colza, so they are deprived of this yellow spring beauty, very ephemeral, by the way, since colza field are in flower for only a few days and then they become quite banal greenish field of ...average high grass. |
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