Topic: A local copse (Read 3558 times)

Chairman Bill · « **on:** October 12, 2013, 04:39:21 am »

A short series of four images, similar compositions, but with enough variety to (hopefully) keep it interesting. This is a copse just up the road from me, and along the side of a regular walk & running route, so I see it in all sorts of light & weather. I think it shows the variety that can be had in a single location, and that's certainly part of what makes landscape photography interesting for me.

Comments, criticisms, all welcome

stamper · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2013, 07:37:40 am »

Number #4 for me. A nice specimen of Fine Art. Number #1 is probably nearer to real life but it is imo boring. When I first read the heading I thought you had missed out the letter r but you obviously haven't.

RSL · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2013, 10:04:55 am »

What an interesting study of the effects of shifting light. Very nice, Bill.

graeme · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2013, 10:23:25 am »

I like #4, very dramatic shadows.

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2013, 10:24:07 am »

Quote from: stamper on October 12, 2013, 07:37:40 am

... When I first read the heading I thought you had missed out the letter r but you obviously haven't.

A new day, a new English word for me

Yes, #4 is spectacular. However, I think that taken together, as a group, all work quite fine, balancing spectacular and transient with serene and more permanent (the very quality that makes boring... well, boring).

Hmmm... Not to be totally anti-fun (as defined by LuLa bosses), but one thing bothers me in #4: as of when are clouds blue? I mean sky can be blue, clouds are white, gray, pinkish, orangish... but blue? Or is it just another British peculiarity designed to irritate Americans? I mean, we do not even have the same colors, yours are colours, after all

sdwilsonsct · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2013, 10:37:37 am »

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2013, 10:24:07 am

as of when are clouds blue? I mean sky can be blue, clouds are white, gray, pinkish, orangish... but blue?

When they are in shadow, thin, and in front of a blue sky. These look fine to me.
Nice series, #4 is especially rich.

Chairman Bill · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2013, 10:41:13 am »

Thanks for the comments.

As for the clouds on number 4 - greyish blue is what the clouds were, & I didn't think to change them

And a copse is a small wood. In this case, it's specifically a covert, designed to provide habitat for foxes, which would then provide quarry for (the now banned) hunting with horse & hounds, 'cos obviously foxes are pests & we don't want pesky foxes running around eating chickens. And if you spotted the faulty logic there, it's what passes for rational argument from those who liked killing foxes.

wolfnowl · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2013, 01:28:31 am »

Had to read the title twice - couldn't find the body in any of the pictures! Sorry, couldn't resist - it's what happens to old biologists.

Nice work, BTW!

Mike.

Chairman Bill · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2013, 05:13:42 am »

So do you not use the term in the US?

RSL · « **Reply #9 on:** October 13, 2013, 07:53:12 am »

I heard my grandmother use the word more than once, Bill. It's not common in the U.S., and from Mike's comment I'd guess it's not common in Canada. But anybody who reads ought to be familiar with it.

wmchauncey · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2013, 08:55:26 am »

I like the concept of the same image in different times/lighting/whatnot. Would make an interesting print series.

Riaan van Wyk · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2013, 11:00:58 am »

Very nice Bill, all of them.

wolfnowl · « **Reply #12 on:** October 13, 2013, 10:47:46 pm »

Sorry Bill - my attempt at a bad joke. As a biologist type person I'm quite familiar with the term copse. Also as a bio, I was looking for the co-r-pse.

Mike.

francois · « **Reply #13 on:** October 14, 2013, 05:14:31 am »

I'm also voting for photo #4...

jjj · « **Reply #14 on:** October 15, 2013, 06:17:42 am »

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2013, 10:24:07 am

Hmmm... Not to be totally anti-fun (as defined by LuLa bosses), but one thing bothers me in #4: as of when are clouds blue? I mean sky can be blue, clouds are white, gray, pinkish, orangish... but blue? Or is it just another British peculiarity designed to irritate Americans? I mean, we do not even have the same colors, yours are colours, after all

I see plenty of blue clouds here out behind my house [in the UK] when sun sets too.

Dale Villeponteaux · « **Reply #15 on:** October 15, 2013, 09:39:21 am »

I agree with Russ that most readers recognize the word "copse", though I can't remember ever having heard it spoken. What is nagging me is that, at the moment, I can't name the American equivalent. A "stand of trees", perhaps, but that seems a work-around. I trust one of our more erudite readers will be able to enlighten me.

Regards,
Dale

Ed B · « **Reply #16 on:** October 15, 2013, 09:53:32 am »

Thicket would probably be the best American synonym.

jjj · « **Reply #17 on:** October 15, 2013, 12:16:59 pm »

I believe a thicket is a specific type of copse - one with trees of the same type. Thicket is used here in the UK.
Is 'grove' used in the US as that seems a better match?

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #18 on:** October 15, 2013, 12:50:05 pm »

Quote from: jjj on October 15, 2013, 06:17:42 am

I see plenty of blue clouds here out behind my house [in the UK] when sun sets too.

I am genuinely intrigued... can anyone post OOC images with such clouds?

David Eckels · « **Reply #19 on:** October 15, 2013, 07:46:29 pm »

Each with its own lovely mood. Very nice!

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graeme