Really like this! The bird on the hay is a perfect touch. Great job!

I really like this photo, the colors are perfect for fall, the sky has the moody look of winter to come. The bird just adds to the shot. Great work on this one. + Favorites.

Some sweet mixed up weather patterns make this one!...

Excellent composition and composure!....

Looks like Autumn is upon us early eh!...

Fabulous capture Mick. Love the moody looking sky and the depth the hay bales create. Love the bird sitting on the one bale adds a lot. Do you know what kind of bird that was? Maybe a partridge or pheasant

Great image!

Superb! It's an outstanding shot of contrasts and deep color! Wonderful composition and clarity! love the bird on the bale~dove or pheasant? Gorgeous capture Mick! Faved! :)Ami

simply stunning, a beautiful contrast

The sky and the sun combined for a very great color and lighting Mick. The straw looks like it is on fire. That looks like a pheasant to me on the bale. Great per usual.

TicK

enchanting. I like this type of weather: when most objects in front of you are lit with evening sun, and in the background ahead of you is a huge dark storm cloud: it'll be raining later in the night, with lightning, while you rest at home. Perfect mood.

As you said an idyllic rural scene made even better by your creativity!

I faved this one Mick. I think it is the lighting that does it for me. It brings the colors right out at us. Great work.

I love your images and this is fine example of why!
♪ ♫ :)sandi♪ =^..^=

Super photo!

Mick... great shot. Beautiful light, the right camera position, love the bird, yeah, just great.
with regards
Evert

Fabulous capture as always Mick.

I agree with your thinking... stunning contrasts. That sky is fantastic. Is that a dove on one bale of hay? Saved! Thank you for sharing it.

Enchanting certainly is the right word - and this photo draws me right into the scene
Lovely work

What a fantastic shot! This brought back a lot of memories for me, the first time our local farmer used round bales instead of the ole square ones I was about 14. Some friends and I decided to set them rolling down a slope as we tried to stay on top of them walking backwards. There was a lot of falling off and minor injuries, but was such fun. And no we didnt ruin any of the bales we made sure of that ( the farmer had a huge shotgun lol)

Wonderful colours and lighting in this as usual Mick x

I love the drama of the sky and the lighting is great!
Thanks for sharing!

I like this a lot, the colors, the lighting and the bird on the bale. Moody and very beautiful!

I like this one very much. One of my favourite things to photograph. You have done a fine job. Lyn.

Nothing special for our friend, Mick !
Such beauties and much better are his daily bread.
10.10 in VB a moment ago.

Great Eye and Capture as always Mick.

Thanks for sharing.

E J

You know the bird seemed a little odd to me. Was it original to the photo? I downloaded it and zoomed in on the bird in Photoshop and I can see pixels with muted edges just below and to the left of the bird. Most of the birds pixels are muted as well while the pixels in the rest of the photo, even in the shadows, are hard-edged. It's what happens when I rubber stamp an image from one photo into another. I suppose it's possible that the bird was just moving slightly when you shot the photo and that's why the pixels are muted. Is that the case here? Just curious.

-Nikoneer

The best conditions to photograph hay bales for sure Mick, a grey stormy sky with that special light you get from time to time between the clouds setting off the yellows. Beautifully done. However I too am slightly suspicious of that bird. I think it may just have flown in from another scene.... ;-)

the lighting is perfection. wonderful composition.

Very good country photo,the view of the bales and bird is pleasant,very pleasant colors too,there were also hay bales here in the past few weeks.

Wonderful big golden round rolls of hay Mick..they do go nicely with the darker sky..pretty country scene!

Really nice composition!