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Posted by Paul Schröder on March 7, 2006 at 10:08 AM
Very cold and very windy last week in The Westhoek (Belgium). Some beautiful light and skies though. Worth the suffering :smile:

1Ds, 24-70 2.8L, 125/@f11, iso 200

Paul

NL/Rotterdam
Posted by Jeremy on March 7, 2006 at 10:27 AM
Beautiful light and sky, as you say. Shows the flatness of the Dutch landscape very well. I like the stream cutting diagonally across what might otherwise be a slightly boring foreground. Lovely shot!
Posted by PhilH on March 7, 2006 at 10:29 AM
Nice... not much I can say but it is pleasing to my untrained unable to see landscape eyes..... :biggrin:

:toast: :toast:
Posted by John Chapman on March 7, 2006 at 10:35 AM
Hi Paul
nice moody landscape.
John
Aberdeen :wavey:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on March 7, 2006 at 11:38 AM
I like this Paul,well done

Barrie :wavey:
Posted by David Kjaer on March 7, 2006 at 12:31 PM
Hi Paul

I love the light and colours!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Sean Bolton on March 7, 2006 at 1:03 PM
Hi Paul

I like it, a great sky with lovely light and colours.

Composition wise you could crop a fraction from the bottom and go for a more panoramic image and emphasise the sky more.

The foreground is a bit bland so if possible I would try to get closer to the river/stream and use that as a lead-in line. Looks like you could get some good reflections in it too.

And how about a windmill on the horizon line to add some interest?

A very pleasing landscape shot though.

cheers

Sean
Posted by Alan Woolnough on March 7, 2006 at 2:45 PM
Lovely shot Paul!

Would love to see this as a BIG enlargement, as it looks to have some intricate detail for close inspection, and the overall cloud and composition makes this a wall-hanger in my book.

Nicely done

Alan
Posted by Philip Kirkham on March 8, 2006 at 5:12 AM
Hello Paul
Well seen and well taken. It is a very effective image.
Best wishes
Phil :toast: :toast:
Posted by Michael Sayles on March 8, 2006 at 7:16 AM
I agree with Sean's suggestions of cropping a bit off the bottom to produce a pano. I quite like the resulting image if the foreground is cropped at the point where the stream meets the right hand edge of the frame (keeping the fence middle-right in the shot). Quite an extreme crop, but the result really emphasises what's happening in the sky, with a thin strip of land at the bottom. Might be too extreme for some people's tastes, but experimenting by scrolling the screen to crop as suggested looks good to me.

Michael S