Self Portrait in Rape seed oil field

Manage to work out the 10 second timer function today(drill downs in the menus) but would have liked to have been able to shoot 3 or 4 photos in succession but need to read the manual to see how that is done as it looks like I have to pick which option I want and stick with that, typicaly I bought a remote device for connecting to the new camera so that I can catch some time lapsed images later on in the year when I should have picked up the infra red remote instead then I could have used it to do shots like this Doh! never mind it worked out as it was but need to find a few different locations as once again this was near to Acton Bridge.
What would have worked even better would have been a big red jumper or shower/splash coat and some light bounce on my face but as I dont have one this image will do for now.

As you travel around on the railways and motorways of the UK, you'll start to see the bright dandelion-yellow flowers of oilseed rape coming to light.
Around our way they are coming more and more to the fore and it seems like the surrounding fields are yellower than ever.

The boom is being driven by rocketing prices as it becomes more desirable for food, and other producers in Europe suffer the effects of bad weather.

Rapeseed oil has historically been used as a "break crop" in farm rotation - to suppress weeds and improve soil quality - for cereal crops such as wheat and barley. In the past the crop has been largely functional - and has not made farmers much money - in recent years it has become hugely profitable anywhere up to £388 per tonne.

Rapeseed oil is one of the highest quality vegetable oils, and it has gained a certain culinary respectability over recent years. When your in the oil ailse next look out for "Rapa" oil It's being used as mayonnaise, in margarine, salads, anywhere vegetables are used. It has a good health profile, has low saturated fat, is high in omega-3, and some claim it is better than sunflower oil. I hate mayo etc so I cant comment on the taste etc

Rapeseed oil is one of the highest yield oils - it has very black seeds, which are like poppy seeds, and they are 45% oil - and the other 55% is high protein animal feed.
It is also being used for biodiesel, while a very small amount has specialist industrial uses, for instance as lubricants. Historically Rape seed oil was used as a lubricant for steam trains

Normally flowering for @ 4 weeks, last year they flowered for 8 weeks due to the great weather blip in April/May. I like the splash of yellow on the normal green landscape.
The pollen around the fields is strong but as it has a large pollen grain so it doesn't move very far and hay fever sufferers have to actually walk through the crops to be seriously affected - when walking through the fields it does have a cloying smell.
Christ that was a lot of bluff and thunder on that subject