PHOTOGRAPH INFO

This photograph was taken today at 4:00 p.m. on my way home from a brisk walk.

In the the yellow-colored field on the left you see corn 'stubble'; the corn was cut down for feed a few weeks ago. In the very bright green field on the right you see oats; they're acting as a cover crop for timothy. The oats hold the soil in place while the timothy germinates. Timothy is grown for hay.

Normally the oats are long-gone by this time of year because the plant dies back when there's frost. But we've had very little frost this autumn -- both October and November were full of 60-degree and 70-degree days.

It's getting very cold now with daytime temps in the 30s. The oats will be gone in a week. I'm crossing my fingers for a little snow! :)

Post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D and the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens at 24mm, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/100s and aperture f/14. Curves adjustments for contrast and saturation; color balancing for tone.

Thank you for visiting Durham Township!

--Kathleen

Very beautiful colors!

Amazing sky and colors! Great view.

The stripes of clouds and straight lines of cultivated fields seem to be fragments of a circle; when I look at the shot for a few seconds, it starts to spin, faster and faster. Also, it always goes to the right, probably because of the 'heavy' shadow on the left. Therefore, I think you crossed some kind of horizontal twister on your way home. Who cares it doesn't exist.

Stunning sight. Like the shadow from the clouds and the line between corn and oats. As for the snow, the later the better :)

Very dramatic light and great colours in this shot.

As always gorgeous photo. I love the clouds they seem to be pointing us into the frame. I also love the way the light falls on the crops creating the wonderful shadows. The colors are beautiful as ever.

I dropped you an email reply. It was good to hear from you the other day!

Damn that's sweet.

fabulous colors. Love the way the sky and the field meet- it looks like two different photos in one.

One of your best in recent months for me (I meant that in a good way) :) I love this!

Loads of color in this one, nice job.

Hi Kathleen

check your email or my delaware river journal for a response to your question about doing a river trip and linking our mutual interests.

Get back to me.

thanks

jb

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Brilliant warm earthy colours and the natural perspective afforded by the natural formation of clouds adds a special touch the whole scene. The perspective in the land mass leads the eye right into this scene wonderfully.
Superb landscape impression!

Excellent photos!
Thank you for sharing the beauty with your artist's eye.

Oh, c'mon... you just CANNOT get away from your obsession with oversaturating and post processing the hell out of your pictures, can you.

This isn't a picture, it's a photo-illustration that barely resembles the original.

I'd love to see the RAW file; it looks no where near this overly processed, photoshoped mirage.

Beautiful moment!!

I look forward to seeing the snow shots from your part of the country.

Hi Kathleen,

Another lovely shot and also very smart post production. I love your website and see that it is a style that is very popular with the photoblog community. I would very much like to display my photo"s in much the same way, did you create the site yourself or did another company do it for you. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Mike

Those colours are gorgeous, Kathleen! Nature's palette at work :-) I especially like the extra kick that the green gives to it. Nice vignette too...

Great colors between the corn and oats. As always, incredible sky. I love the lines in this shot.

wow - those colors are amazing. what a beautiful landscape

Responding:

rick smith: I love you, too, my darling. :) Just so you know, a RAW file is a data file. It's a bunch of ones and zeros all mushed together -- and it can't be seen as a photographic image UNTIL it's converted and post-processed. Since I shoot RAW + JPEG, perhaps you'd like to see how the 5D post-processed this RAW file into a JPEG? If so, let me know and I'll email it to you.

Mike: I use Moveable Type software and it's all hand-coded, no pre-designed templates. There are lots of great options out there, though; Moveable Type makes some software that requires a lot less coding, or none at all. But you might try WordPress for starters; I've heard nothing but good things about it and I'm considering using it for another project I'm about to do. Let me know if you need more info!

Thanks for taking the time to reply to me Kathleen, not only is your site THE main reason I have taken up photography but your comments have spurred me on. I'll send you a URL once I get going.

Thanks again.

Mike

I'd like to point out somthing that some viewers of photoblogs may not consider. The sharpness, detail, saturation of hues and contrast you see is manipulated by your computer/screen's color managment system.

When I first viewed this image, I was on our home pc with a 19in dell LCD screen. About the average color display quality that most of us "surf" with. The greens on the right, the orange in the treeline, and the cyan in mid-sky looked neon as if the saturation button had been slid to the point of obliterating the detail in those areas.

I am now viewing the same (I love it) image on a Mac Cinema Display that is tuned well enough to adjust press proofs on. In this invironment, the greens do not peak out, the treeline is not beyond a believable range, and while the vignette does cause the sky to darken, the cyan/blue value does not go out of balance in relation to the other dominating hues. The silver-grey in the cloud hovers around the neutral value range and thereby lends a visual boost to the oranges, greens, and cyans.

I've been in commericial graphics over 40 years including pre-press and digital color managment since the digital image world began, and this lady knows what she is about.

If "On The Way Home at 4:00p.m." looks badly tweaked to you, it's not Kathleen's doing, its your viewing tools letting you down.

And, believe it or not, the warms, and cools in the upcoming "Creek and Bridge" episode are also elegantly balanced.

I could go on......(obviously), but nuff said........Oh....one more thing.......Thanks Kathleen, for sharing the way you see things.

Wish I had that way home!
I live in the most pop. dense city in the world!I'm a long time visitor and admiror.
Happy New Year and keep it going!
Love,
GD

This is absolutely magnificent! The lines from the corn field and from the clouds create a superb perspective.