DGrin Mini-Challenge #263 - Pastoral Landscapes

DavidRGillespie

My thought with this challenge is to focus on landscapes of fields, pastures and meadows - agrarian landscapes rather than mountains, forests, lakes and oceans. Obviously some of these last might be in the frame, but should not be the subject. Here are some images that give an idea of what I am looking for. I am hoping to see lots of great composition elements that tell a story, and lead the viewer into the image. This challenge will close at 3 April, 2018 at 1800 (6 PM) Pacific Daylight Savings time

Good luck! I am truly looking forward to your images

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JAG

Great challenge Dave! I'll start with these;

1 Panorama of a field in by Point McKinsey in Alaska

2 Northern Idaho farm

3 Somewhere between Warnemunde and Berlin, in Germany

DavidRGillespie

Lovely images. Thank you Joyce

lkbart

Great theme! I'll play ~
1 Distant Silos

2 Buzzin Bluebells

3 Neighbors

DavidRGillespie

Thanks @lkbart. three nice images that fit perfectly with the theme

pegelli

Great challenge and entries so far, here's my three entries

Waterloo

Tuscany

Machelen

grandmaR

1.) Ring of Kerry

2. ) Farm in Maryland

3. ) England from the air

DavidRGillespie

Thanks @pegelli and @grandmaR ! super images.

pegelli

@grandmaR : I love "England from the air" , super image for this theme, but also would have fitted well in the previous one

grandmaR

@pegelli said:
@grandmaR : I love "England from the air" , super image for this theme, but also would have fitted well in the previous one

Thank you. I did consider entering the one from the last mini for this one. I get quite a few photos from an airplane which worked well for this one or the last one. In fact I just thought of another one that would worked really well for the last mini.

kurzvorzwoelf

Great theme! I hope the following fit in

1. Settling - The sun is about to settle on the Swabian Alb near Bisingen, Germany

2. The Hills have Wines - Wineyards in the evening sun, on the hills near Beilstein, Swabia, Germany.

3. The House behind the Sunflowers - Taken "auf den Fildern" between Esslingen and Stuttgart on beautiful but cold and slightly foggy morning.

DavidRGillespie

Thanks @kurzvorzwoelf. Great images that do indeed fit with the theme.

Cavalier

My three shots are from The Palouse on the Washington/Idaho border. The whole area screams pastoral.

1) Scene from Steptoe Butte - the tallest structure in the area.

2) Requisite field, barn and horses.

3) Just fields (wheat and canola)

DavidRGillespie

@cavalier Thanks Jo. Lovely images.

sarasphotos

I've been loving all of the beautiful images in this mini. Finally I have time to post a couple of my own.

1) Grand Cru Vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

2) Wheat and hop fields in Bavaria

3) The Piedmont region of northern Italy is quite densely populated, so it's virtually impossible to get a shot that only contains vineyards or hazelnut orchards (think Nutella, which is manufactured in the region). I think of it as representing the way of life here, where the agriculture comes right up to the verge of these small towns.

sapphire73

A few more entries for this thread....

1) Countryside in Kisii, Kenya

2) Seen in Colorado

3) Landscape in the Netherlands

DavidRGillespie

@sarasphotos and @sapphire73 Gretchen and Sara, thanks so much for adding these great images to the mini.

CHANDLERJA

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DavidRGillespie

@CHANDLERJA - Thanks Jeromy. Lovely panorama frames.

DavidRGillespie

There are two more days to add to this great set of landscape images!

bfluegie

Wow, I'm cutting it close. But it really doesn't matter much since I don't really have anything to compare to the great entries so far. Still, these challenges are for fun so here goes...

1. Moos with a view. California ranch lands overlooking Moro Bay (there really are cows in this photo but they may be below the resolution of the camera I used)
   

2. Protecting the harvest: grape vines covered with netting because birds would rather eat grapes than drink wine. Go figure.
   

3. Farmyard, La Purisima Mission, Lompoc California
   

DavidRGillespie

Thanks Barbara, you made it under the wire The mini challenge is now closed and I will get the results posted in the next 24 h or so.