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Mountain Ranching

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted September 17, 201719,705 views9 comments

Keeping with the classic rural theme that Paul and Rob have started, I'm adding this early spring view of a cattle ranch in the foothills of Montana's Absoroka mountains. (5D3, 24-70 f2.8 @ 42mm, f/13, 1/30 s, iso 200, tripod and polarizer.)

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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on September 17, 2017 at 5:08 PM

Mark, this one hurts, in a really good way..... enlightened

Having lived and worked in the hectic & traffic dense areas of So Cal during my adult working life cycle how I yearn for going back to my roots. Although I did not live on a farm or ranch I worked in that arena my entire childhood and as a teen right into my 20's. Oddly, what I do not have a direct connection with here is the cattle, I never worked cattle, but almost everything else in farming and ranching..... laugh

I really enjoy the scene you've captured here. The vantage point gives us the opportunity to work our eyes along the dirt road down to the structure surrounded by a wonderful grove of trees. As that was not enough we can wander right on into the BG and up to the snow capped foothills or distant mountain range back there..... cool

Wonderful rural landscape...... devil

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Comment posted by David Schoen on September 17, 2017 at 5:22 PM

A bucolic scene that gives me something to look forward to as the winter rains have just begun here in the Pacific Northwest. Beautiful color and light. The hand of man and the feet of cows...

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Comment posted by John Tobias on September 17, 2017 at 11:02 PM

All I can say is I wish I was there! Well taken. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Gary Minish on September 18, 2017 at 2:24 AM

A very nice farmscape, Mark! A warm pleasing atmosphere and lots to look at both in front and in back.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on September 18, 2017 at 6:09 PM

Beautiful country, and I love the flow of the lines int his image, Mark. The road does a great job of leading to all those nice slanted lines.

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on September 18, 2017 at 6:56 PM

Bucolic! I like the layering leading up to the snowy peaks.

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Comment posted by Nancy de Flon on September 18, 2017 at 9:13 PM

The road at the bottom, winding among the cows, leads almost to the upper two thirds of the image, and from there on up, the image is layered in different kinds of terrains, from the trees to the grassy hills and up to the snow-covered mountains. Nice! I like the way the sort of golden color of the one cow in almost the center of the picture makes that cow stand out.

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Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on September 19, 2017 at 8:29 PM

Really nice landscape! In fact, so nice, that you could even crop it several different ways and get completely different scenes...For example, you could level the hills and crop the bottom scene out for a cool mountain pano. Plus, you could crop off the mountains at the treeline tops and have a great little farm scene.

Very nice! blush

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on September 21, 2017 at 9:52 PM

Wonderful combination of agriculture and wilderness, illustrating the kind of American West that I imagined watching cowboy movies as a kid, with the ranch backed up by snow-capped peaks. This is also a good lesson in the value of shooting when the Sun is low,

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