Stooks by Earl Misanchuk

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16-SEP-2003	© Earl Misanchuk, M4 Multimedia

Stooks

Before combine harvesters became widespread in the middle of the last century,
machines called binders were used to cut and gather grain into sheaves.
The sheaves were then stacked by hand into stooks to allow them to dry before threshing.

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Olympus E-10
1/125s f/4.0 at 11.0mm iso80 full exif

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