Canola fields

This and the others to come below were taken a couple of years ago; in '06 the canola fields here mostly failed to ripen, due to the drought.

Posted by Rory Hudson on Tue, 02/06/07 04:02
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Comments by Rory Hudson on Tue, 02/06/07 04:03

Here is a second view of the same field:


Comments by Rory Hudson on Tue, 02/06/07 04:04

And here is a different, more abstract view of a different field:


Comments by richard cramb on Tue, 02/06/07 05:01

I like 1 and 2
are the trees dead elms,they look very stark.


Comments by Ruth Rittichier on Tue, 02/06/07 08:21

A photographer's dream, with the beautiful cloudy sky, the contrasting yellow,the old dirt road and the barren trees are the frosting on the cake! And on top of that, you have captured the scenes well.


Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Tue, 02/06/07 08:34

I like all three of the images. The first image has a real abstractive feel to it with the barren black trees included in the field of yellow canola, the perspective in the second shot with those black twisted branches reaching towards the clouds as if to squeeze a needed drop of water from the clouds, and the last image with the contrasting colors, the dirt road leading the eyes of the viewer through into the image, and the overall feel of the composition. If I may ask where were these pictures taken?


Comments by Mark Vaintroub on Tue, 02/06/07 08:37

The first one is just amazing!


Comments by Linda Frey on Tue, 02/06/07 09:44

These are wonderful, Rory. The bare trees out in the canola field are not the look I'm used to seeing! Quite Dali-esque Marc commented as he saw the screen.


Comments by Diane Kroupa on Tue, 02/06/07 09:54

I love them all - your exposures on them were dead on with such brilliant and sparkling colors! On the posted capture I really like the simplicity - really emphasizes a vastness of this area. I like the dead trees that show their struggle to survive gives a feeling of surviving over adversity.


Comments by JC Grant on Tue, 02/06/07 10:08

Otherworldly.
Well done.


Comments by Jim Murray on Tue, 02/06/07 10:14

Beautiful and surreal. At first I thought this was a photoshop trick and the trees were cloned in, but in the second picture I can see the same trees at different angles. An absolutely stunning photo.


Comments by Maria Salvador on Tue, 02/06/07 12:59

Beautiful. Love them all!


Comments by Rory Hudson on Tue, 02/06/07 17:18

Thanks everybody for the above comments. Normally I like to reply to people individually, but these days I don't seem to get all the comments in my email box. Anyway, these photos were taken in Victoria, Australia (where I live), some 50 km northwest of Melbourne. The trees are dead eucalypts and the scenes were all as seen, no cloning (in the last one I deepened the blue in the sky a bit).


Comments by Rick Longworth on Tue, 02/06/07 18:24

Great contrast and excellent forms.


Comments by jacques barbier on Tue, 02/06/07 21:42

Nice scenery, looks good in the red channel as well.


Comments by Julie M. Dant on Tue, 02/06/07 21:54

Fantastic Rory! I always love the look of stark bare trees, but these are so impactful right in the middle of that beautiful canola field. Wow.


Comments by Garry Schaefer on Tue, 02/06/07 22:25

What a treat! Those dead eucalyptus trees, in the first two, remind me a lot of forms generated by fractal geometry software only these are real and even more interesting. The clouds, in the first, were particularly cooperative. Wonderful set with the prize, for me, going to the op.


Comments by Tony Scheuhammer on Tue, 02/06/07 22:29

weirdly interesting; has a almost surreal quality


Comments by John Wise on Wed, 02/07/07 01:41

Striking images!


Comments by Dan Stefan on Mon, 02/12/07 13:39

Hello
- Excellent composition and colours . Well done.
Best regards