Photograph info: This photograph was taken around 9:30 a.m. a couple of days before Christmas near Durham Valley Farm. Check out the humongo version.

Camera settings and post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens at 70mm, ISO 100, f/16, shutter 1/100s. S curve for contrast.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Looking forward to walking through Durham Township with you in 2010.

--Kathleen

Superb job Kathleen! Lead-in lines, fab colour, snow and blue sky!

Chem-trails above cloud-shaped mother ship attempting an emergency landing after a failed crop circle attempt. How you manage to get all this stuff in one shot is a total mystery to me, and it's a mystery I am fortunate to enjoy going into a new year. (Fwd; to Art Bell?) And Happy New year to you, Kathleen, and your cast of characters; family, friends, neighbors, candy farmers (and farmers, otherwise,) and all their respective pets!

This looks like a million dollar painting. Almost too perfect. It is beautiful.

Up to the horizon let's take a short walk,
The way is outlined by many corn stalk.
Reach toward the sky, cloud cumulus to grab
Our efforts are for naught, it's to high to nab.
Just crispness and coolness, with sky icy blue
Winter has arrived in this northward view.

beautiful, Kathleen.

happy 2010!

Well seen simplicity!

Tu trabajo, en su conjunto, es admirable. Felicidades.

Beautiful view of an amazing sky and field. A wonderful start to the New Year.

You make such beauty of things we miss hurriedly speeding by not seeing the trees for the forest. Who knew that a lonely cloud, chem trails and corn rows in the dead of winter could make this lovely pattern.

Great picture. The combination of lines, cloud and sky color make it very interesting.

Very nice. You've taken an everyday image and turned it into a work of art.

Beautiful image, perfect and bravo!

so beautiful!