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View to Wootton Courtenay
View to Wootton Courtenay
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Challenge: Landscape V (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
Location: Above Wootton Courtenay, Dunster, Somerset
Date: Nov 20, 2009
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Nov 22, 2009

What a week its been! A landscape challenge. I just love my landscapes so knew I had to enter this one. And yet the weather has been atrocious .. dull, wet, windy, squally showers, miserable grey skies. With working, my opportunities to shoot have been so limited that I seem to have spent the whole week chasing the light. I managed to get some potential shots and narrowed the choice to three. Then to two. Eventually I picked this view towards the village of Wootton Cortenay for a number of reasons. The light was as good as I got all week.. it was just at sunset. And I really like the track through the field leading the eye into the distance.

Statistics
Place: 17 out of 136
Avg (all users): 6.6613
Avg (commenters): 7.9231
Avg (participants): 6.5156
Avg (non-participants): 6.7377
Views since voting: 1425
Views during voting: 394
Votes: 186
Comments: 15
Favorites: 2 (view)


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12/04/2009 08:37:02 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: 'Oh gawd, that's gorgeous' is the exact phrase I uttered upon seeing this shot. Just lovely.

Technical: Great dof (though would be curious to see how it looks with camera on a tripod thus allowing for even greater dof), thirds and leading lines all work beautifully together. Light is simply amazing. Just a stunning capture. Great timing, catching that golden light.

Artistic: James Herriot should be striding up that fenceline on the left coming to tend a sick cow now, shouldn't he? Serene and just lovely beyond words. My roots are British, and this is the UK I've always wanted to see. Lucky you living there. *rummaging to find passport*

Overall: A top 20 finish is nothing to sneeze at but this could have easily ribboned. Wish it had! Would have perhaps liked to see the image slightly bigger, but better to err on the side of caution than risk distortion.

Excellent work, hope to see more of it in the future.

Feel free to PM me with any questions,

Susan
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/29/2009 11:41:40 AM
Very pleasing and beautiful composition with great depth that draws the viewer in. Lovely detail and light.9
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11/27/2009 11:10:07 PM
what a pretty countryside...beautiful
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11/27/2009 06:37:15 PM
A beautiful scene well shot good luck
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11/27/2009 08:22:37 AM
It's a beautiful landscape. I'll have to start exploring Exmoor.
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11/26/2009 04:58:51 PM
Excellente composition and the green is glorious...10
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11/25/2009 10:41:32 PM
I believe that color is green...fantastic! 10
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11/25/2009 06:19:05 AM
Beautiful landscape and composition but overdone PP
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11/24/2009 05:53:17 PM
Wonderful. Great greens. Love the fence posts. Nice sky. Well composed.
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11/24/2009 09:21:18 AM
Lovely pastoral scene. Yellow/green looks a bit oversaturated on my monitor.
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11/23/2009 09:36:42 PM
This has to be in the Cotswolds. Gorgeous. Love the late lighting - especially along the golden grass on the left.
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11/23/2009 05:04:21 PM
Just wonderful. I've come back twice to raise my rating!
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11/23/2009 03:46:35 PM
Great use of leading lines and ROTs. Amazing detail and beautiful tones. Nice work.
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11/23/2009 03:02:07 PM
Perfect 10 - I love this!
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11/23/2009 09:20:22 AM
delightful
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