Slow Breath

[AntonioCorreia]

The contained silence of this landscape is fantastic, where the vastness imposes itself without the need for grandiloquence.
The bare trees, like white skeletons lost in the intense green, mark the time of a past that is visible but nevertheless already distant. There is no shadow in these trunks, just memories.
The meadow stretches in all directions, cradled by a sky heavy with clouds and the line of mountains in the background, which rests like a distant limit.
The wind is felt even without hearing it, the cold is guessed even without touching it.
In this image there is solitude, yes, but also space. Space to stop, look and listen to what the silence has to say.

[billtils]

I'm trying hard to like this one Antonio, but it doesn't quite work for me.

The problem was that those lovely leading lines created by the trees and undultions in the grassy areas don't actually lead to anything of interest.

I tried cropping to give a triangular image with the trees on or near the vertices to contain the area of interest but wasn't sure ...

[AntonioCorreia]

Thank you, Bill, for your comment.
In fact, I have to admit that you are right. Not really one of my best photographs. Perhaps I was fascinated by the environment, but I confess that on location, it wasn't easy for me to stop to take this photo.Obviously, that isn't and cannot be a justification, or rather, it's a weak, poor one.
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I opened the photo, gave the mountains in the background a few touch-ups, made a new slightly tighter framing, and here is the result which...In the end, I'm just trying to save a photo that perhaps isn't even worth the attempt. Or maybe it's just me who doesn't know any better...

[Geoff F]

The edit looks better to me although I suspect the foreground would benefit from a fraction more brightness - but not the sky which is almost at the stage of maximum highlights now.

[AntonioCorreia]

Just a tad...
Cheers !

[Round Tuit]

Antonio,
If you make it more about the trees, you could end up with a keeper.



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