Across Balcanquhal

[Sahil]

An awesome shot, Donald.
I love everything about it. Composition, processing etc etc.
This is another landscape I am gonna show to a friend who wants to buy a 10-22mm for landscapes

[Nihia]

Actually Donald, I perceive this image as a series of horizontals with a few diagonals thrown to keep it all sane & preserve Nature's seeming randomness.
But what I like is - I can almost smell the grass, hear the cows mooing & chewing, & hear their hooves swishing through the grass. Now if we look closely, we could probably see clouds of insects rising as they are disturbed by the movement of the cows.

Cheers
Nihia

[Donald]

Sahil, Nihia

Thank you both for your comments.

Another lesson that we can maybe take from this is that sometimes we don't we don't have to travel far and wide to make good images. It is about being able to 'see' what is around us. This is taken about 10-15 minutes walk from my house. So many of the images that I've posted on CiC over the past couple of years have been taken on and about this relatively short, single-tracked road that runs for about 2-3 miles in a circular route just outside our little village of Glenfarg. It continues to be a constant source of material for me. For anyone with Google Earth, this is the view location for the above image 56°16'54.94" N 3°21'05.18" W

I'm sure that if we pulled all of these images out together we could probably do a collage that would give a pretty good joined-up picture fo the area. Many things (fields, fences, etc) have appeared in more than one image, but from a different angle.

Okay, I'm lucky to have this on my doorstep. But I'm sure many of us could see just as much in our immediate vicinity. It's about having the time to see.

[JohnC]

I just loved this photo the moment I opened it up - obviously because of the 'technical points' raised by Chris who has been able to analyse in detail the symmetry and given an answer as to why it's so pleasing to the eye but I agree with the The wee Kirkbudbright Centipede story.(googled it and seen it now) I play the piano, I can't read music and don't understand music theory but can create music and the piano tuner told me never to take lessons,it will ruin it for you-one friend heard a piece and picked out one section and said I couldn't do that as it as it broke all the rules. so...I don't delve.

You do post many superb B&W photos,Donald. Like Katy I recall reading about using a long lens for Landscapes when most folk think wide angle. It's now on the ever-growing long list Lol.

A bonus in this thread too. I've just got Glenn Gould up on YouTube playing Bach's Piano Concerto no. 7 in G minor- Superb,now bookmarked... will check out the other pieces on Youtube. It's Baroque, my favourite music and architectural period.circa 1600-1750. and I've just sent it to my wife's computer - she's the proper piano player between us and will love this pianist and this piece.
I found the home footage in this thread hard to watch-much preferred him with an orchestra or just a prof. solo performance.

[manthos]

Donald, Chris, thank you both. This thread has been mind-opening.

[ChrisH]

A fine pastoral scene Donald. The various "layers" of fields make this for me and it is well suited to mono.