Pineapple Plantation - The Plants

Nice late evening weather. Observe the crowns on the pineapples. The pineapple crowns are slashed off the fruit and replanted for the next batch of pineapples. I have been told that this is a better method compared to planting the pineapples from young pineapples that grow around the matured plants.

These pineapples are planted in well-drained peat soil. When the fruits has been harvested, the plants is burned to prepare it for the next planting.

Pineapple Plantation - The Fruit.

Pineapples ready for collection by lorries (trucks) to be delivered to the processing plant. The pineapples shown is not fully ripe. When it is ripe, the color is orange yellow.

Information on pineapples can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple. In Malaysia, pineapples are called nenas or nanas. I have been told that this pineapples is called "morris" type. Observe that the "crown" has been slashed off. The crown is used to plant the next pineapple plant. The scientific name for pineapple is "Ananas Comosus" from the Bromeliaceae family.

Beautiful evening with great cloudy sky. Camera set to "auto", vibration reduction "on" and full wide-angle zoom.

Pineapple Plantation - Reflections 2

Another photo of the same scene taken later but with better exposure controls (less washout sky) but darker pineapple plants and reflections.

Being new to Digital Single Lens Reflex camera but has experienced the film-based SLR during my younger days, I realised that it is easier now. I can afford to take more photos and get instant results to take better photos. In fact, you can afford to experiment more.

My 2GB storage card can accomodate more than 200 photos in JPEG mode. Used to be that you get 12, 24 or 36 exposures and days to get the photos processed. And, from where I am, the photo guy are very generous with their colour editing which ruin your photos.

Also, I have a few hundred photos developed at K-MART, Dekalb, Illinois which has turn reddish brown due to 30 years of aging. I still have my trusty Yashica SLR in working condition. That's technology. Better, easier, cheaper and faster .... hehehe.

Pineapple Plantation - Reflections 1

Photo taken during my boring evenings while working on my computer deployment project in Batu Pahat, Johore, Malaysia. The photo was taken with my new toy, being the Nikon D60, bought a few weeks back. Camera setting is set on AUTO. (haven't had the time to read the manual). I simply "meter" the pineapple plants and lock the exposure and the lens is on auto-focus. The lens used is the standard 18-55mm that comes with the camera. (It's not the camera but the brains behind the camera). Photo taken approximately 2 hours before sunset located in a large pineapple plantation in Simpang Renggam, Kluang, Johore, Malaysia. How large? About 5 kilometers by 5 kilometers. Where? Latitude 1°49'33.83"N Longtitude 103°14'5.12"E. Check it out in Google Map.

I have been told that the pineapples when harvested are processed in Skudai, Johor Bahru and exported mostly to Japan and elsewhere. Also, fully riped pineapples are discarded as it is not suitable for processing and canning.