| This is a good genre piece (the genre being landscape, of course). The grass is lush and golden. The barn is not run of the mill (so to speak)... quite a fascinating shape and color to it, and the second "storey" is so different than the first. I like how the tree leans up against it so intimately. For me the main interest of the photo lies in wondering about this building. Is it still being used? How much? What condition is it in? The saplings/bushes in the left foreground break up what would otherwise be a too simple composition, and provide a diagonal counterpoint to the main item of interest. The sky has great clouds. Personally, I like to be "woken up" from the dream of genre. In other words, I like a genre to be subverted, even if only in a small way. This doesn't do that, but working within the genre it manages to maintain quite a bit of interest anyway. As to your title, it adds Biblical undertones, and I find it rather sad, because I don't think there are any animals being tended here any more, if there ever were. So there's not even a manger for baby Jesus. I wonder if this is meant as a tourism ad, but that mention of infamous Biblical inhospitality might work against it. |
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