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Uploaded: 07/21/06 3:54 AM GMT
Vineyard skies
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These are the vineyards at Wilson Creek Winery!! Off in the distance you can see a white box on top of a pole. It's an owl box put there to encourage owls to live in the vineyards in order to keep the squirrel population down.

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.priyanthab
07/21/06 4:29 AM GMT
I like the awesome distance which is shows here. And the contrast is also well balanced to enjoy the tiny details very well.
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.derekw
07/21/06 4:47 AM GMT
OMG!!! This image is amazing! Great!!!! ^_^
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::Asrai
07/21/06 5:05 AM GMT
This is so beautiful it almost looks like a painting!! The color and depth are wonderful! You have actually captured the texture of the vineyard. The sky is a perfect backdrop! Love it! 10 from me!!
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::verenabloo
07/21/06 7:40 AM GMT
Hi ya Chip...now THIS is a most awesome photo!! Absolutely beautiful! You must have been at a great vantage point to get this nice of a scene. Where I live there are lots of vineyards also, but I've never been able to get a shot like this. As you probably know, I love taking photos of clouds and this one of your cloudy sky is totally wonderful! Such rich clear colours, the rolling hills in front and the mountains in the back, but yes, the whole thing looks like a canvas painting. Congrats and tons of hugs for this shot!!!..verena
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::Anita54
07/21/06 11:53 AM GMT
What an expanse you've covered here Chip. It's got wonderful depth and color and is absolutely terrific. Thanks for sharing this. Anita
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anastasiatheo
07/21/06 2:42 PM GMT
How interesting! There's this land that looks almost like desert, and suddenly, a green area begins!

The sky is something I'll bet thousands of painters would love to be able to capture, the way the light interacts with the clouds...

The expanse gives one a feeling of freedom, space to enjoy a fine summer's day.

And -- the landscape reminds of of Greece and makes me homesick.

Anastasia
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.rjh
07/21/06 3:25 PM GMT
Thanks for this gorgeous desktop. What a shot!
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laudelino
07/21/06 3:45 PM GMT
Uhmm, does not seem a photography, (I say it like praise)
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::madmaven
07/21/06 5:39 PM GMT
You just really have to view this at full size to appreciate it! The sky looks hand painted and the clarity and DOF are amazing! Great work, Chip! I've missed seeing your work!
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.rforres
07/21/06 6:57 PM GMT
Beautiful! It's almost like a painting! The colors are lovely and I am especially drawn to the sky. Great job!
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.anawhisp
07/21/06 7:57 PM GMT
One big, clean sky and new life below - such peace and beauty! By "clean" I mean no pollution in evidence! This planet of ours should have sights like this for ever... Thank you for capturing this!
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::PatAndre
07/22/06 2:26 AM GMT
Chip? I say......Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip? You have outdone yourself my boy! what are trying to do, make the rest of us look like chump change? This is one of the prettiest captures I have ever seen. The lighting, the dof, the colors, contrasts, textures are all like musical intruments working together in concert to perform the most beautiful symphony.
I hope I get this in the voting booth, buster!
Pat
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.iloridaa_enjekat
07/22/06 4:10 AM GMT
Well, I did get it in the voting booth and I gave it a 10. And like everyone else is saying, it does look like a painting. The lighting is so perfect and all the elements are so well placed that it has all the characteristics of some mid-nineteenth century oils I've seen.
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::Surfcat
07/22/06 4:40 AM GMT
Thanks for the great comments everyone!! It took a couple of hours in photoshop to get the raw image to look like this. I shoot everything raw instead of letting the camera process the images for me. I worked on a 16 bit tiff file using high dynamic range enhancements, channel mixing, selective color, curves, levels, saturation, and sharpening to get the image on my monitor to match what I had envisioned. I posted a copy of the raw image HERE

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.Nekopuff
07/25/06 8:50 AM GMT
Excellent!! 10/10
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::jeenie11
07/25/06 5:59 PM GMT
chip, this is a wonderful landscape. i've been trying to work with raw images. sometimes i just get irritated. so when i went to see yours i found it very interesting. which one was the way it really looked? i liked the original very much, too. jen
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::doubleheader
07/26/06 1:52 AM GMT
Simply awesome Chip...Isn't life grand...Beautiful image...Bill
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::Zyrogerg
08/10/06 11:36 AM GMT
This is a real beauty. Wonderful color and fabulous composition.
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lalu
10/02/06 5:24 PM GMT
OH MY GOD WHAT A PICTURE.I THINK PHOTOGRAPHER HAS ANGLE'S EYES.THIS IS TRUELY UNBELIEVABLE BEAUTY .MAY GOD BLESS U.
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.thinkopenspaces
12/05/06 2:46 AM GMT
beautiful picture! I love the clarity of it!
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prell
12/24/06 4:15 PM GMT
Wow. Just, wow.

GREAT JOB! Instant favorite.
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.tahaddi_challenge
06/02/07 3:08 PM GMT
wow...the colours...the colours...are just so perfect. and the depth...wow...add to favorites!!!!
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Calypso
10/25/07 7:02 PM GMT
This is absolutley beautiful! Bravo!
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Logun7
12/12/09 11:44 PM GMT
»»-»»((*♥*))»»-»» Magnificent Shot ««-««(( *♥*))»»-»»
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.Bursa
02/10/10 5:36 PM GMT
Lovely shot, well composed and so crisp. Well done
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