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RemieComment: To answer a couple of questions, hereâs the story behind the photo:
I live in an area with polders that are surrounded by dikes to keep the water outside. When standing close enough to a dike, all objects behind it are out of sight and all you basically see is the grass on the dike and the huge amount of sky above it. The dikes are covered with grass and are used as a grazing-areas for sheep, horses and cows. The animals look very small in the wide landscape and thatâs what I wanted to show in a photo. I found that the best way to show it was by using extremes: a maximum amount of sky, a minimum amount of ground and just a very small looking animal.
While driving around looking for a good shot, I noticed a couple of cows walking on top of a dike. The first cow was standing and grazing, while the other two where walking towards the first one. When I stopped my car and got outside, with the camera already switched on, the first cow stopped grazing and looked towards me and at the same time the other cows stopped walking. I made a photo of this hilarious and unique situation and right after that the cows started grazing and walking again. Besides that, it was the only day of the week with a clearly, cloudless blue sky, so I really was at the right spot at the right time :)
I had to âdespeckleâ the photo to get rid of some disturbing noise in the blue sky. Because I had to apply it to the whole image, it made the cows a little fuzzy too. I did sharpen the image afterwards to improve it as best as possible and it looked pretty good on my screen (resolution 1024x768). Iâve seen that it doesnât look that good on lower screenresolutions though.
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