nogoodnamesleft
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briantrumpet
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Quite pleased with this one... it can be a challenge to get a good composition of grapes on the vine, as they tend to hang down low without much going on in the frame. As I was riding along, I suddenly thought of this spot as being a potential view-in-the-background possibility. Mind you, my pose wasn't terribly dignified, sitting down on the soil, rather scrunched up, to get just the right angle on a nicely formed bunch of grapes...
DaveReading
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Classic foreground, middleground and background, nice composition.
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briantrumpet
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A proper photographer friend of mine said the mistake most people make is to look at a 'subject' in the photo rather than shapes - the latter being exactly what I did for this one. OK, it's not going to win any prizes for originality (my French viewers seem just to like pretty pictures of places they recognise), but I was (for a change) conscientiously looking at the shapes of the vines and the mountains in the background once I'd got the grapes where I wanted them in the frame - I like the perspective of the vines going down the hill and then the outline of the mountain and the tapestry of burnt trees of different varieties on it.
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briantrumpet
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Just a teasel...
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
The open beaks of a very crowded nest.
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briantrumpet
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I wish I could get shots of rain I really like... I think it really needs puddles and moody lighting, but this one will remind me of this afternoon's tropical rain... it was 35C, I was standing in full-on sunshine, with the shutter set at 1/1600s to try and freeze the sunlit rain (as it were) into droplets. 90 degrees to the right it was blue sky.
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briantrumpet
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On yer bike, Mark Rothko.
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Got carried away on my recent trip of Northumberland and Scotland so have loads of photos I'm picking my way through. On this one we were on a walk and I only had my phone but the sun was just starting to set and this little pool next to Dunstanburgh Golf Club with the castle in the background was idyllic.
We were also blessed with a fantastic sunset at Beadnell Harbour the following evening but again, despite having a bag full of camera gear in the boot of the car, I only had my phone with me. We had a fantastic moonrise just afterwards whilst watching seals but the phone couldn't cope with that (I discovered a few days later that I had also packed the telephoto lens for by old Sony camera not my Canon when trying to get another moonrise over Loch Ness!)
We were also blessed with a fantastic sunset at Beadnell Harbour the following evening but again, despite having a bag full of camera gear in the boot of the car, I only had my phone with me. We had a fantastic moonrise just afterwards whilst watching seals but the phone couldn't cope with that (I discovered a few days later that I had also packed the telephoto lens for by old Sony camera not my Canon when trying to get another moonrise over Loch Ness!)
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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Great composition and light.
