I posted this to Facebook/Twitter last night, but I figured I would post it here as well. This year we went with a "Photograph" theme for our tree, so that we could remember all that happened over the past year.
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Whether they are round modules or the more traditional modules, they all get dumped onto a conveyor belt that moves them in to be processed by the machinery in the cotton gin.
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This year, instead of taking pictures of the actual harvesting of the cotton, I went to a local cotton gin to take some pictures of how they process the cotton after it leaves the field. With the drought, I was lucky enough to catch the gin on a day it was running.
Something relatively new to cotton harvesting is the round module. Basically, cotton pickers (I don't know if strippers can produce round bales or not) spit out these round bales behind them as they go, so they don't have to wait for a boll buggy.
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By request...
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When I was little, tractors would be converted into strippers. They would attach all the necessary equipment to the tractor until its purpose was served, and then dismantle it. Honestly I wish I had a picture of one all put together, just to remember what they used to look like. This is just one piece that would sit behind the tractor cab.
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Before we left San Antonio this past weekend, I put my Ansco Shur Shot to use at a couple of the missions in the south part of the city. Here is one of the images scanned after Wyatt and I developed the film this afternoon.
