Looking south from Oingt-en-Beaujolais

[Donald]

John
Giannis

Thank you for your comments suggesting that my images from Beaujolais work as a set. Although, as on my own website, I have specific galleries, this is the first time I feel I have undertaken what amounts to a project.

[Susana]

This is sort of off topic, but wanted to say that I loved this album and have had to go through a really weird route to view it the several times I wanted to find it - I went to the welcome new members thread and clicked on Donald's profile and there I found it! Now, my question is, how do I favourite it so I can find it easily in the future? I could not find that information anywhere in the FAQs but since I'm new here it's probably somewhere really obvious and I am just not seeing it.

Donald, I also wanted to say that the wheat fields in the first few images are breathtaking. I have never seen something so fragile look so sharp, in focus and rendered so beautifully. I would have expected at least some of it to be swaying in the breeze, but no, it's all sharp and I just love it. The wheat's tone is so beautifully rendered that you can "feel" the golden colour. Those particular images are mainly the reason I keep going back to look, though the whole album is gorgeous. :-)

Well, I guess since I'm at it I might as well also ask (apologies) how does one comment on an individual image? I saw that some of the photos had comments, but couldn't see any way to comment.

[Donald]

Susana

First of all, thank you for your comment about my images. If you want to look at my images generally, then the best place to go is probably my own website, the link to which is in the signature line below this message. Go to 'The Photos' section of that site.

You may be interested in looking at the thread in which I originally posted the 'Island in a Field of Gold' image, as I included what I called a 'production shot' in that. It tells the story of the image. Just click here.

In terms of albums generally ...........

Now, my question is, how do I favourite it so I can find it easily in the future? I could not find that information anywhere in the FAQs but since I'm new here it's probably somewhere really obvious and I am just not seeing it.

No, you didn't miss it. It's not there. One of the features that forum template that CiC uses does not allow is to identify favourites. It's just one of those things that's not there.

Therefore the process you went through is about the most efficient way that there is of finding albums. The other way is to go to 'Community/Albums' and trawl through the pages until you find the album you want. It's not the best system, but it's the one we've got, I'm afraid.

Well, I guess since I'm at it I might as well also ask (apologies) how does one comment on an individual image? I saw that some of the photos had comments, but couldn't see any way to comment.

When you are in an album, you click on an individual image to enlarge it. At the bottom of that image is window into which you can insert a comment. HOWEVER, I can't remember if that is a feature that is only enabled once a new member has made 5 (or maybe it's 10) posts. There are few things on the forum that have that feature built-in. So, if you don't see that window, try again after you've made 5, or maybe 10, posts.

But, that being said, I'm not sure how many album 'owners' regularly go back to their albums to check for comments. I tend to keep forgetting to do so.

[ggt]

You always have the best compositions! I love the one with the moon from your albumn.

quite jealous!

[Polar01]

That is the best one yet, What does it for me tie the stone pillar at the gate, as the lands below falls away below, it appears to meet behind that pillar, you know that there has to be a stream of some sort there but cannot see it. It to me appears as if all the lines are convering on that point. That has to be one of my longes reasons for liking an image.

Cheers:

Allan

[Clactonian]

Good to see the old maestro hasn't lost his touch. Great album. Loving the square format Donald.

[Donald]

Mike - Great to see you posting. I was in the Southern Rhone this year. There are a few images I posted here that are on the 'Latest Stuff' page on my own website. Stayed in the gite of Chateau de St Cosme.

Allan - Thank you for commenting. At first I wasn't sure about this one, but then it grew on me to become amongst my favourites of that visit to France.

Gretchen - Yes I was very pleased with that shot of the moon above Morgon in Beaujolais. It captures the feeling of the place.

[Clactonian]

Mike - Great to see you posting. I was in the Southern Rhone this year. There are view images I posted here that are on the 'Latest Stuff' page on my own website. Stayed in the gite of Chateau de St Cosme.

I pop in a couple of times a week Donald, although I haven't posted.
Now I am jealous. Gigondas is my favourite Southern Rhone wine. The Chateau looks beautiful. The last time I was down that far we stayed at Avignon and went by train
I haven't even been down to Beaujolais since the early 90s, but will be passing through en-route from Annecy to Burgundy to pick up my wine consignment in a few weeks time.
I have to squeeze in a quick trip to the Pas de Calais before then!! Sad to be retired isn't it.

[Mike Buckley]

It would be so simple to ignore the house and capture only the landscape. Including the house makes it feel like a home. Indeed, maybe the image should be titled, "Home with a View." The tourist board shoud definitely be paying you.

[Donald]

Thanks Mike. Some people, including in the original comments above from 2011, have suggested that the bit of tree at the top left shouldn't be there. For me, that really closed the framing of the image and it was a conscious choice to include it in the composition. I felt it give a bit of balance to the house.

[jeeperman]

Not sure how I missed this image Donald. Very nice. Sometimes it is the small inclusions in an image that sells it for me. While I love the view, the over all comp and the conversion.....it is the pot/kettle that ties the overall feel together for me. Nice work Donald.

[Designer]

Oh, wow, Donald! This is a superb shot! Probably the best composition and framing I have seen for some time!

[Designer]

I just now visited your album, and found not a bad pic in the lot. All wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

[Ken Curtis]

Just a thought for you, Donald ... There is a lot of the house wall on the right side. I wonder if you cropped off two-thirds of it, if your eyes might stay more focused on the rest of the image. I like the house being in the image for the reasons that others mentioned. My two cents ...