It was really REALLY green here this morning.
It was really REALLY green here this morning.
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GetCarter

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30,657 posts

301 months

Friday 19th August 2005
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[pic]http://www.stevecarter.com/green-morning.jpg[/pic]

...and in only a month or two, those same trees:

[pic]http://www.stevecarter.com/gold-morning.jpg[/pic]

Nice place for pics is Loweswater - get your DSLR's up here! (Just make sure you order sun on the menu).

Don

28,378 posts

306 months

Friday 19th August 2005
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Absolutely beautiful, once again, Steve.

Mighty impressed with location, photographer and dedication to getting up at the crack of dawn for the light...

Deester

1,607 posts

282 months

Friday 19th August 2005
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I think I've stumbled onto something here!

I'm off to Scotland next Wednesday for 8 days armed with my cameras / lenses and tripod to capture what Steve seems to capture very well! Some very nice pics there!

Can you give me some hints as to the best places to visit?

Any advice much appreciated.

Deester

docevi1

10,430 posts

270 months

Friday 19th August 2005
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Loweswater is in the Lake District, West of Keswick off the road which loops through the slate quarry & Buttermere.

GetCarter

Original Poster:

30,657 posts

301 months

Friday 19th August 2005
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Deester said:
I think I've stumbled onto something here!

I'm off to Scotland next Wednesday for 8 days armed with my cameras / lenses and tripod to capture what Steve seems to capture very well! Some very nice pics there!

Can you give me some hints as to the best places to visit?

Any advice much appreciated.

Deester


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simpo two

90,862 posts

287 months

Friday 19th August 2005
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Second one is lovely. I don't seem to have an eye for landscapes, though hopefully ths will improve in NZ... if I can't any good ones there I will have to sell the camera and flip burgers at McDonalds!

_dobbo_

14,619 posts

270 months

Saturday 20th August 2005
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simpo two said:
Second one is lovely. I don't seem to have an eye for landscapes, though hopefully ths will improve in NZ... if I can't any good ones there I will have to sell the camera and flip burgers at McDonalds!


Must confess I'm crap at landscapes. Or is it that the landscapes around here are crap? I'd prefer the latter but I suspect the former!

GetCarter

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30,657 posts

301 months

Saturday 20th August 2005
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_dobbo_ said:


simpo two said:
Second one is lovely. I don't seem to have an eye for landscapes, though hopefully ths will improve in NZ... if I can't any good ones there I will have to sell the camera and flip burgers at McDonalds!




Must confess I'm crap at landscapes. Or is it that the landscapes around here are crap? I'd prefer the latter but I suspect the former!




Almost certainly the latter. (It's that 70% subject and light thing again - it took me 30 years to get to live somewhere proper pretty and I regret not doing it MUCH earlier).

edited to add.. We all see landscape photographers that really know what they are doing, and the results are simply stunning - but they are there all the time, waiting for the light, knowing the places. (70%)

>> Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 20th August 13:18

_dobbo_

14,619 posts

270 months

Saturday 20th August 2005
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GetCarter said:

Almost certainly the latter. (It's that 70% subject and light thing again - it took me 30 years to get to live somewhere proper pretty and I regret not doing it MUCH earlier).


I hope you are right, but I'm not so sure. A recent trip to devon in the beautiful little village of Bransombe with loveley scenery all around and the best I could manage was this:



Now this has been a little over processed I think, as I was messing around with a Velvia action script in PS, but it's representative of the best landscape I've ever taken... And it's taken portrait format!!

GetCarter

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30,657 posts

301 months

Saturday 20th August 2005
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_dobbo_ said:

GetCarter said:

Almost certainly the latter. (It's that 70% subject and light thing again - it took me 30 years to get to live somewhere proper pretty and I regret not doing it MUCH earlier).



I hope you are right, but I'm not so sure. A recent trip to devon in the beautiful little village of Bransombe with loveley scenery all around and the best I could manage was this:



Now this has been a little over processed I think, as I was messing around with a Velvia action script in PS, but it's representative of the best landscape I've ever taken... And it's taken portrait format!!


Yea... but you were there... and I doubt I would have taken a better pic... and I was here, so had a little more to work with!

Trooper2

6,676 posts

253 months

Saturday 20th August 2005
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GetCarter, I know I've said it several times already but I love your photograghy!.........Keep up the good work and please keep posting it.

>> Edited by Trooper2 on Saturday 20th August 13:39