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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on June 28, 2019, 11:17:10 am

Title: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: sdwilsonsct on June 28, 2019, 11:17:10 am: Feedback welcome.
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on July 01, 2019, 01:04:01 pm: Enjoyed both. They evoke a sense of place.
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Post by: RMW on July 01, 2019, 11:10:31 pm: Well done.
Thanks.
Richard
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Post by: Bob_B on July 02, 2019, 07:43:29 am: +1. I really enjoyed the first one.
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 02, 2019, 10:16:52 am: Quote from: Rajan Parrikar on July 01, 2019, 01:04:01 pm
Enjoyed both. They evoke a sense of place.

Thanks to all.

For me they evoke a lack of place. The second is a community hall, once used for dances, dinners and celebrations. Standing there now, scanning the horizon, not a single farm is in sight.
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: HSakols on July 02, 2019, 10:21:54 am: I like the first one. I'm a sucker for clouds. Do you make all of your BW conversions in Lightroom?
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Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 02, 2019, 05:33:52 pm: Quote from: HSakols on July 02, 2019, 10:21:54 am
I like the first one. I'm a sucker for clouds. Do you make all of your BW conversions in Lightroom?

Thanks, Hugh. I use Silver Efex.

I need to work on that halo in #2.
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: petermfiore on July 02, 2019, 06:54:23 pm: I like the images very much. I too, love the name of the town.

Peter
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 02, 2019, 07:24:20 pm: Great moods in both scenes.
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Post by: francois on July 03, 2019, 03:53:32 am: I really love the second one. The house looks to be in a very rough environment and with the curved grass blades, it must be windy all the time.
Bravo (also for the B&W process)!
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on July 03, 2019, 11:04:15 am: Nice ones.
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 04, 2019, 10:04:56 am: Quote from: francois on July 03, 2019, 03:53:32 am
...with the curved grass blades, it must be windy all the time...

Yes, Francois, that's wind, probably abetted by dense wind-driven snow.

Thanks to all for your feedback.
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Post by: Alan Klein on July 04, 2019, 10:31:34 am: Nice. What's the object in the first one?
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Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 04, 2019, 11:20:10 pm: Quote from: Alan Klein on July 04, 2019, 10:31:34 am
Nice. What's the object in the first one?

Thanks, Alan. It's a building foundation. What's left of settlement in those tracts.
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: Alan Klein on July 05, 2019, 12:05:55 am: Strange building. Was it round? What was its function?
Title: Re: Whiskey Gap, Alberta
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 05, 2019, 12:53:51 pm: Quote from: Alan Klein on July 05, 2019, 12:05:55 am
Strange building. Was it round? What was its function?

Good question. I thought it was a house foundation, but it looks very substantial. Wikipedia says there were three grain elevators there, and it might have been an elevator.

It's amazing how communities have been erased.
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Post by: Alan Klein on July 05, 2019, 04:02:55 pm: OK Thanks.
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Post by: Mark Nadler on July 09, 2019, 01:14:13 am: Really like the second.

mark