The Farm Track
It were a right cold day when this snap was exposed. Snow lay in the hills and handling the camera with gloves on is always tricksy, and then you find you’ve changed the ISO instead of the white balance. This I consider a very pointless picture, but then I was in a point and shoot anything mode. Unfortunately no hissing locomotives here, just cold ears. I tried very hard to make a silk purse with sepia toning and darkening the sky. The sow’s cold ear is still very evident however. Maybe tomorrow’s picture will be more promising. We can but hope.
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Well actually I like it. There is something about the way the tree in the background is framed and situated at the end of the path which resonates…
Hi Andy, and thanks, I was feeling a bit cheesed off earlier when I looked at this and now you mention it, I see the depth, going back to that tree. Some days you are tuned in, but today is a blob day as friend Mary calls them. So there is hope……..good, and thanks.
We all have those days. And often we are our own worst critics…
Nice shot. Very atmospheric, well done.
Hi Jim, thanks for dropping by, and thanks very much for your comment.
We’ve all done it John only to discover others like it, belgradestreets is right!
Oh, thanks Ki, sometimes you lose focus….
Interesting what Belgrade streets said about the tree in the background because before I read that I tried masking the top of the photo as I scrolled down to a little above the chimney on the right and that really does make the tree in the background the focus 🙂
Yes, I did wonder about a crop, but I quite like the top of the tree. Will have another think about this one, thanks Helen.
Liked, but I want something on that track …..APOI!
Mmmmm, not always possible…..though I could try cloning one of your lovely cakes …….. 🙂
… a cake goes for walk, why not!
I do love it, John…the color and the effect go so well with the subject…maybe reminiscent of my childhood walking the lanes in Germany. I can feel the cold ears and fingers, too. I think it’s a lovely silk purse, even if you say that it’s shaped as a sow’s ear! 😉
I wonder, Scott, do you miss walking in those lanes….even if it was cold?
I miss those lanes very much, John…and the cold was refreshing to me. Just returned from my evening walk a few minutes ago…out in the chill…it’s invigorating somehow….