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Soybean Fields
Cat in the Grass
Wheat
Wheat field being harvested in North Dakota
Meadow with wildflowers – Lake Lure, North Carolina
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@robertapple- Posts:8879
Allows Edits? YesGreat series of photos Kent, think I like the combine the best. Can’t tell you how many hours my butt has been in the seat of one of those.
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I agree, all great shots but I kinda like the first one most. Something about a car left abandoned with open doors and no people around. There’s a story there but we can never know what it is. Has a sort of ‘North by Northwest’-ish feel about it. (cue the biplane) 🙂
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I like the first one too. That was shot in Argentina. I was riding with the farmer looking at his fields. They have a HUGE problem with an overpopulation of doves, and they destroy his crops. As we were driving down that road, the doves would rise up from the road and the crops near the road, and I’m not kidding- they were so thick that you couldn’t see anything. We had gotten out of the truck to look at some of the damage.
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Lovely shot Robert (right at the top – for some reason this reply is not placed directly below your post)!
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I share your fascination with grasses etc. Robert. I’m always amazed at the effect they have in the lens – becoming soft and just plain ‘different’.
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Allows Edits? YesNice series Tobie, the macro is really interesting.
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Allows Edits? YesAll great images – the bird is exceptionally so – the colour palette, the lines and composition – superb !
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Thanks Elin! Wish the bird was looking in the opposite direction! 🙂
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I agree with Elin. The bird shot is exquisite. It looks like the smallest bird ever in this environment. The second shot is also wonderful, great colour and depth Tobie.
The shot of the lion really underlines how it blends into its surroundings so well but what the heck is going on with zebras? I mean black and white stripes? In Africa? What the?
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Those stripes confuse the heck out of the carnivores when the whole herd run away together, Graham! LOL!
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@Tobie, I like your 2nd shot. This isn’t my usual thing, but I used to hike on a ranch around here and I was struck by this scene.
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I like this a lot too 3pco. I’m reminded of a wonderful camera shot from the opening scenes in “Gladiator’ when all we see is a hand gently brushing the grasses as an unseen person walks through the fields. Robert’s reference to leaves rustling in the wind brought this to mind and your shot exactly creates that sense.
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This is exactly what I said above @3pco! Something special and beautiful happens to grasses in front of a lens!
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Allows Edits? YesGrassy Bouquet
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Wow there are so many great shots in this thread. I love this one Robert. With such a shallow DOF, the framing works really well by including a reasonable portion of the out-of-focus background. When the light finds the grass seeds, it makes them more than mere plants…they’re one of nature’s beautiful creations.
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Allows Edits? YesApocalypse
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Allows Edits? YesGone to Seed
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Allows Edits? YesDancing Leaves
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Out to pasture.
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Eating the pasture.
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Allows Edits? YesHe seems a little out of place, I n my world anyhow.
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Yes he is Robert. My bad. One of those times when you revisit a post after a short time and wish you could delete it. I had ‘grass’ on the brain but this really belongs in a bird thread or similar. Apologies.
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Allows Edits? YesThat’s not how I meant that Graham, that species of bird in a field was what seemed off to me. I picture them in a rain forest setting.
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I still regret posting it here though Robert. It tells me I’m just not out there taking enough photographs. Having said that, these litle guys are almost an urban pest here. One local council has spent a small fortune trying to get rid of them as they decimate the local football field in their thousands.
In fact, I’ve noticed lately that there are huge flocks of all sorts of birds everywhere here in Adelaide and birds of a feather definitely do flock together. Driving to work, I might see a field full of these sulphur-crested cockatoos on one side and a huge flock of pink galahs on the other side. You name it, pidgeons, ducks, ibises, galahs, cockatoos and many more…they are and have been everywhere.
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Here’s my contribution. The summer has seen me busy…I have to do better. Lots of great images in this topic
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Allows Edits? YesI see this planted around here as ornamental grass. Whispy grass with a whispy cloud is a good combo.
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Great colours Rob (is this in that LAB space?) Another great low down perspective and it really brings out the colours against that gorgeous sky.
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Thanks Graham. There’s hardly an image I process lately that doesn’t take at least a brief visit to LAB for colour correction or enhancement. I’ve stopped using all of the LR and PS official sharpening filters in favour of blur sharpening as well.
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Blur sharpening? Hmmm, have to look into that.
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Blur sharpening…here you go.
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