Snowscape
by puzzled

Comment by SandyP:
Yes!!! So simple and beautiful! Amy, you totally rock!!!

Country
by puzzled

Comment by SandyP:
Oh Amy!!! This is spectacular! I've never seen anything so crisp and clean!!! This is an aMAZING photo!

Snowscape
by puzzled

Comment by ubique:
Whooowee! You've never shown us anything like this before. You know with my recent anarchic mood that I must love this, and I do. The light and the shadows are terrific, but it's the glancing blow on the plant that is best. Toujours l'audace!

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by puzzled

Comment by ubique:
Lovely tones, cobber.

Stop
by puzzled

Comment by puzzled:
Wow. Yes, this is exactly what I meant to leave in the photographer's comments box :-)

Thanks for taking the time, Paul. Just as I was about to delete this shot ... now it will stay here a while longer.

Originally posted by ubique: Here we have the ultimate bucolic scene. Gently rolling pastoral land, and the abundant evidence of a man's honest labour. It's an ordered, timeless world, ruled not by clocks and meeting agenda, but by the sun and the seasons. The land here is both harvested and nurtured, a perpetual cycle of mutual benefit. But in the foreground, there appears in the rank weed heads the evidence of another, wilder world snapping and snarling at the very borders of Shangri-La. A world of haste and neglect. A world consuming itself in ruin. This malevolent land yields nothing. Quod Severis Metes. Separating these two incompatible foes is a road; a protective membrane that guards the gentler land from infection by its chaotic neighbour's primitive excesses. And just in case those damned weeds don't get the message, there's a bloody big sign.

Stop
by puzzled

Comment by ubique:
Quote: "If I were more clever, I could write something symbolic about this image"

Oh, the symbology of this image is so easy to interpret!

Here we have the ultimate bucolic scene. Gently rolling pastoral land, and the abundant evidence of a man's honest labour. It's an ordered, timeless world, ruled not by clocks and meeting agenda, but by the sun and the seasons. The land here is both harvested and nurtured, a perpetual cycle of mutual benefit.

But in the foreground, there appears in the rank weed heads the evidence of another, wilder world snapping and snarling at the very borders of Shangri-La. A world of haste and neglect. A world consuming itself in ruin. This malevolent land yields nothing. Quod Severis Metes.

Separating these two incompatible foes is a road; a protective membrane that guards the gentler land from infection by its chaotic neighbour's primitive excesses. And just in case those damned weeds don't get the message, there's a bloody big sign.

See? Nothing to it!

Taking pictures
by puzzled

Comment by ubique:
I entirely agree with the two very clever ladies below. This is a beautifully textured and balanced image, and it's one of those all too rare photographs that rewards a couple of minutes' consideration. I love it.

Taking pictures
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Comment by Jutilda:
Despite the overall monochromatic color (sans the blue which I love), it has a painterly sense to it. The composition is lovely and the photog helps balance out the negative space to the right of the building.

Taking pictures
by puzzled

Comment by Germaine:
Tells a story we can all appreciate.

Stop
by puzzled

Comment by Jutilda:
"If I were more clever, I could write something symbolic about this image :-)"

ROFL - heh I'm with ya. I just like the picture. The stop sign is so graphic and hard against the softness of the grassy landscape. Good job.