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A gravel/adventure bicycle laden with bikepacking equipment at the Furlo Gorge, Le Marche, Italy.
Quick ViewA blue New Holland tractor pulling a Vicon mechanical baler on the Piano Grande plateau during the lentil harvest, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA large round bale of lentil straw stands in front of a mechanical harvester and a backdrop of mountains on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo labourers collect harvested lentils from a combine in a huge sack carried in a trailer on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewFarm labourers smile as they examine the lentil harvest, bagged in a huge sack, with a combine harvester in the background, on the Piano Grande plateau, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA farm manager watches as a green John Deere tractor holds a huge sack beneath the unloading spout of a combine harvester to collect processed lentils on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA close up view of lentil straw, held in the hands of a farmer on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA convoy of lentil harvesting equipment, with only the combine harvester visible above the lentil stems, makes its way across the Piano Grande beneath Monte Vettore at Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo lentil harvesting machines move away from the camera, gathering the crop for the following combine harvester to process, toward the distant mountains on the Piano Grande, Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo farm labourers, a man and a woman, stand bent over in a field picking saffron crocuses at golden hour on a farm near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewPurple saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) covered in dew, growing in a field and ready for harvest in Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo senior farm labourers, a man and a woman, collecting saffron crocuses in a plastic bucket in a field near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewTwo senior farm labourers, a man and a woman, collecting saffron crocuses in plastic buckets in a field near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewClose up image of a female labourer removing crocus stamens from the flowers, near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA dish of crocus stamens picked from the flower, with the petals set aside, on a farm near Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewClose-up of harvested red crocus stamens ready for processing into saffron, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewNoticeboard in the hilltown ‘borgo’ of Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy, advertising the Zafferiamo (“let’s saffron”) festival.
Quick ViewBright red crocus stamens are dried gently over charcoal, Città della Pieve, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA set of ingredients, including saffron, parmesan cheese and white wine, for cooking a traditional ‘risotto alla Milanese’, set out on a dark wooden surface.
Quick ViewA traditional ‘risotto alla Milanese’, made with Umbrian saffron, in a deep white bowl with a dark background, garnished with saffron and parmesan shavings
Quick ViewA male Rüppell’s weaver (Ploceus galbula) in thorny acacia scrub at Bishangari Ecolodge, Lake Langano, Ethiopia
Quick ViewA speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) in a leafy tree on the shore of Lake Langano, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewAdult and juvenile Ethiopian bee-eaters (Merops lafresnayii) perched close together on a branch in scrub on the shore of Lake Langano, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewWoodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched in a tree in forest on the eastern shore of Lake Langano, Oromia, Ethiopia.
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