The Guardians
by Matthew Goldsmith
This is another photograph I made from my trip to The Palouse last Jan/Feb. The cattle began approaching as I was photographing the light on the hills in the background. I liked how the older cows seemed to keep the youngsters contained in the middle. I was also really attracted to the light and patterns on the hills in the background. Large image posted. C&C always appreciated. Thanks for looking.
D700, 70-200 f/4 @ 185 mm and f/16.1/400 sec.
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6 commentsLooks much better to me when viewed large. I like the snow flying in front of the cows. Texture of hills up top is awesome. Only thing I think I would change is to crop the top, cutting out some sky a bit and make whole thing wider. Being really picky, I would clone out the darker spot at bottom center right.
Bet this would look really nice as a big wide print.
Nice work,
Al
Alan. This is in The Palouse region of southeast Washington. I can't recall exactly where this image was made. When my wife and I travel to places like The Palouse, we just bring a Delourme road atlas and drive the back roads, looking for interesting scenes. We stayed in Pullman, WA, so this is going to be within 20-30 minutes drive of that town. We never ventured much further than that, as we kept stopping to take pictures. I agree about cloning out the dark spot at the top, and perhaps also changing it to a 16:9 pano format. I'll give it a try.