Misery
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Storm clouds, which I saw as symbolic of the misery caused by drug addiction, hang over this poppy crop in Tasmania. The atmosphere here at the time, due to fading light and drizzle was totally miserable.
The fences around these crops carry government warnings of the legal implications for theft and mis-use of the crop.
In Tasmania, the crop is grown for the production of morphine, codeine and thebaine. These alkaloids are extracted from the poppy straw and used in the manufacture of pain killing drugs and in cough mixtures.
The seed of the morphine plant can also be used in cooking and the Tasmanian variety can be recognised by its distinctive blue-grey colour.
Seed from thebaine-enhanced poppies is not sold for culinary purposes.
Canon 40D 18-55 IS
I exposure hand held converted to 3 @ +2 -2 and tonemapped on photomatix.
