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08/12/2007 07:12:25 PM · #1 |
Unfortunately these were shot just a little to early for the rural landscapes challenge. Just wanted to share them with you and maybe get some comments.
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08/12/2007 07:13:42 PM · #2 |
These are beautiful. The first one in particular doesn't seem to have any distinction between sky and ground - lovely.
Not so sure about them being rural though. |
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08/12/2007 07:15:20 PM · #3 |
Number 4 is great. I think they are Rural they are certainly not in the city and countryside differs from country to country .. Well done.
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08/12/2007 07:16:03 PM · #4 |
| I thought rural just meant "not in city". :/ |
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08/12/2007 07:39:59 PM · #5 |
I tend to think rural means not in the city too - but it usually still means inhabited. These to me look more like wilderness, rather than countryside.
Not looking to get in to a long debate about it though :) The pictures are great. |
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08/12/2007 07:41:25 PM · #6 |
| Hehe well then I guess Iceland is one big wilderness :) |
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08/12/2007 07:44:24 PM · #7 |
| Rural indicates sparsely populated. Urban means big cities. Neither means wilderness, hidden beach, etc. I would guess that for purposes of the challenge, anything without a skyscraper is going in the rural bin and something from Oregon or Iceland will win. |
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08/12/2007 07:55:32 PM · #8 |
Rural definately means populated but these Icelanders stick a house anywhere... LOL
I imagine there will be a few DNMC's floating around and voters will need to use a bit of imagination. especially if the shot includes no people or houses. |
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08/12/2007 08:01:44 PM · #9 |
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08/12/2007 08:05:20 PM · #10 |
To me rural means farmland.
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08/12/2007 08:05:39 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by MAK:
Rural definately means populated but these Icelanders stick a house anywhere... LOL
I imagine there will be a few DNMC's floating around and voters will need to use a bit of imagination. especially if the shot includes no people or houses. |
Well mine has NO houses and NO people...but it screams RURAL...so that will just confuse the DNMC police even more. They won't know if they are coming or going..LOL!
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08/12/2007 09:54:31 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Delta_6:
To me rural means farmland. |
So a forest would be urban then. Gotcha. ;o) |
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08/12/2007 09:58:39 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
So a forest would be urban then. Gotcha. ;o) |
There's more than two types of landscapes - it doesn't have to just be 'rural' or 'urban' |
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08/12/2007 10:57:58 PM · #14 |
Rural means country/farming type of life, most usually identified by the simple hardworking life of the farmer.
From Dictionary.com:Ru·ral[roor-uhl]–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
2. living in the country: the rural population.
3. of or pertaining to agriculture: rural economy.
So basically, none of the shots offered up quite meet the definition.
They're just gorgeous, not rural!.....8>)
The words "Pastoral Landscape" are quite often used to describe the typical rural setting.
Weathered barns, old trees, weeping willows around a moss-banked pond, spring houses and root cellars all come to mind.
And of course, a 70 year old tractor rusting into the ground where it stopped, 32 years ago.....8>)
Message edited by author 2007-08-12 23:04:05.
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08/12/2007 11:03:31 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
So a forest would be urban then. Gotcha. ;o) |
Originally posted by Gordon:
There's more than two types of landscapes - it doesn't have to just be 'rural' or 'urban' |
Yeah.....like moonscapes, mountainous terrain, sea-lashed rocky coastlines, verdant dales, frigid arctic wastelands.....8>)
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08/12/2007 11:08:41 PM · #16 |
| The challenge is not "landscape". It is "urban landscape" or "rural landscape". I'm sure several people will try to push the envelope and then bitch about receiving a DNMC. |
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08/12/2007 11:14:04 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by dfstevenson:
The challenge is not "landscape". It is "urban landscape" or "rural landscape". I'm sure several people will try to push the envelope and then bitch about receiving a DNMC. |
Personally I do believe I will grant a great deal of latitude on this challenge.
Having traveled a great deal, rural settings are very much open to interpretation for me, as I have witnessed a wide variety of vistas which were indeed rural, even though they were located along the sea coasts, or up high in the mountains.
Ray |
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08/12/2007 11:16:50 PM · #18 |
| Ray - your "nature's palette" was a wonderful photo. |
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08/12/2007 11:18:16 PM · #19 |
I agree with Ray - rural landscape is quite a broad term, dependent very much by the land, and as a voter who has traveled signficantly, I plan to vote with great latitude in the term "Rural".
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by dfstevenson:
The challenge is not "landscape". It is "urban landscape" or "rural landscape". I'm sure several people will try to push the envelope and then bitch about receiving a DNMC. |
Personally I do believe I will grant a great deal of latitude on this challenge.
Having traveled a great deal, rural settings are very much open to interpretation for me, as I have witnessed a wide variety of vistas which were indeed rural, even though they were located along the sea coasts, or up high in the mountains.
Ray |
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08/12/2007 11:29:33 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Rural means country/farming type of life, most usually identified by the simple hardworking life of the farmer.
From Dictionary.com:Ru·ral[roor-uhl]–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
2. living in the country: the rural population.
3. of or pertaining to agriculture: rural economy. |
I think Jeb hit on the head with this description. :D |
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08/12/2007 11:54:38 PM · #21 |
I am assuming, for the sake of this challenge, that these images should show the hand of man. "Rural", by definition, is still settled land. If it's not settled, it is "wilderness" basically. I see the differentiation between the two as between dense urban experiences and more spread-out, rural experiences.
This does not seem to me the right challenge for one of my marsh/seascape sunrise/sets. We'll see how it goes.
R.
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