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.
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!!
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
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!
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!
anawhisp
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
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.
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
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