These are beautiful shots!
I especially like the first with its rich yellow wheat field ready for harvesting, behind that row of bright red poppies. The green leaves between them make for a great contrasting colour,... and then we have a blue sky as well. Great stuff!
June 19, 2026
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Nicely captured shot with all those layers and different shaped peaks. Interesting to hear about the geology of the place too.
If you remove some of the sky as suggested, just a little bit to keep the sky that starts to go very dark.
I hope you get to see it again. My brother (he's 60) has just had both knees replaced, It was done in mid March this year. Painful at first, but he's now doing very well again, cycling, walking and all sorts of other gentle sports. -
I was at a quandary about the sky. On one hand the clouds were getting more delicate as you went higher in the sky and the delicacy could be seen because the darkening of the sky. The inner mountain region is more or less a very low humidity semi-arid desert know for its dark skies. I've seen the winter skies in Colorado almost black. The negative space of the sky is representative of the lonely open space. On the other hand I was tempted to crop off a bit of the sky. I was getting paralysis of analysis and just left them.
My cousin 7 years my junior had both his knees replace two years ago and now he wonders why he waited so long. We both were runners through college with the exception he ran distance up through marathons which required a lot of running on hard surfaces. I ran long sprints and middle distances mostly on forgiving tracks. Marathons beat your knees to death. I insured my right knee in high school and more or less have nursed it along to the point today it is bone on bone. I think I can save the left one if I get the right one fixed. I hope so. My cousin took on both in a short period and as he almost had to. His rehab was fast on the first one but the second took longer. My ortho suggest I can be back on my horse after 8 weeks of rehab. My wife and I have a pretty good support crew of friends including a strong young woman that rides with me and rides the two horses while we are gone and helps us around the place. She has been with us for 5 years and is almost like my adopted granddaughter. After my wife's rehab from her hip, I plan to take care of my knee and Olivia will help Kathy to some of the stuff that I normally do like lug around feed bags.
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Hard to pick a favourite here. These are the ones that appeal most to me. Then I noticed that they are all compositions without sky.
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Judging by the experience of my brother (who also mentioned bone on bone for both knees) I'd say go for it. He had done a lot of sports over the years and was otherwise quite fit. The rehab is still ongoing, but has been really quite fast. He has worked hard to get back to where he wants to be and it's all working fine so far. The first few weeks were however quite painful.
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Cappadocia is a fascinating area. This is a real good pano!
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Interesting. I've never seen inside the rock formations before.
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And what a fantastic colourful bloom it is.
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This family is used to rehab. My wife has a plate in her ankle and a rod in her femur - horse related. I had a significant umbilical hernia repair in 2018 which took some time. When it comes to managing my rehab, I liken my wife to Nurse Ratched and Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley, the character played by Lou Gossett, Jr. in "An Officer and a Gentleman." To quote Bette Davis, "Old age ain't no place for sissies."
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The recent crescent moon has been nice to see -- here are a couple of attempts to capture it (sunset and night) along with a west view from the Smith Tower.
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That's really nice!
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Thank you. I usually try to find excuses to use the Viltrox 75mm at shallower depth of fields, even if it's a bit cliche.
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I think I'd have wanted the house where the shed is. : )
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Beautiful. Where is it ?
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The first has some interesting details with a lot of busy people. All the boats, cars and people on foot are all doing their own thing.
The night sky in the second shot is quite relaxing with some lovely colours
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Nice shot!
Well that shed certainly has a good and probably the better view.
Who knows why ,... Could be so many reasons, maybe something banal like they don't own the land where the shed is ;-) -
Yeah -- I love it there. It's in Japan.
The fields don't belong to the owner of the house -- each field is owned by a different person. Well, I mean, the house owner could own the field, or multiple fields, but that's pretty unlikely. As for why the house wasn't built where the shed was -- assuming the owner of the house owned that land -- I don't know. Might be a zoning matter (after all, there's no road by the plot with the shed), or it might be 'cause a lot of people just don't care about the view (as unbelievable as that may sound).
