Field of Gold
Taken a few miles east of Leicester, near Allexton.
Its that time in the UK, just before the wheat gets harvested – heavy heads beginning to nod gently under the weight of the grain, and the weather unable to decide whether it is summer or not, threatening to flatten the crop, just it is ready.
Leicestershire is full of distant horizons like this, and the Barley is all but in now, much of the ground already having been put under the plough in readiness for the next crop.
Field of Gold belongs to the following groups:
A Leicestershire and Rutland Showcase, Landscape Photography and United KingdomAvailable for sale as Greeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints, Framed Prints and Posters
lightsmith
Midas has been here!
RavenSoul
How BEAUTIFUL!
Pet xxx
Absolutely Gorgeous..perspective, colours, framing..
Squealia
What a stunning hdr :O)
Rebecca Brann
Beautiful!
gladders
Wowser wowser wowser Mr.Pettit. You hace excelled yourself with this one. The drama in the sky is superb with dark forboding clouds that spread menacingly from the viewer to the horizon where they start to produce an unearthly glow. The colour of the wheat is sublime and the texture and detail it adds is wonderful. I also really like the strong contrast between wheat, sky and horizon…just lovely. The thing thing that really does it for me is the tractor track sweeping from foreground to pinsharp background. This is deserving of much recognition….keep thinking about that sky…...
Yool
Wonderful!!
Linda Syms
Beautiful Graeme
Glenna Walker
Ah, this is gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!
rosedew
Fantastic image
jerry alcantara
wonderful image…thanks for your nice words
savosave
great shot
Denis Dalby
Love this one Graeme. Great contrasts of sky and crop, typical of our summer weather.
kathy s gillen...
beautiful image, I love the contrasts
Sean Farragher
beautiful
Enivea
Wow! I feel the tension in this shot – will the grain get harvested in time? Also the interest in the background – some fields are green and others are golden – just adds to this fab shot.
Michael Kloepping
this is wonderful—the sky, the barley and the tracks through the field that lead us right to the sky.
Rosemary Scott
This one’s a real beauty Graeme….. So very beautiful with that threatening sky, the golden fields & those tractor tracks drawing me right into the scene…..
outstanding! Definately a favorite!
Gary L. Suddath
beautiful shot and perspective
Stuart Chapman
Superb menacing sky holding the interest as those perfect leading lines grab your eyes and drag them through the shot to the small strip of countryside that’s about to get a soaking. Really love the light in this.
velveteagle
A beautiful capture full of power and depth..
Dawne Olson
Incredible image! I was raised in wheat country and seen crops hailed out by clouds like that… this capture reminds me of that tension! So much riding on the harvest of those beautiful waves of amber.
David Geoffrey...
Well done. Love the leading lines ! And the sky too!
lallymac
You live in a beautiful area! Stunning photo – the gold just draws you in and the sky looks so ominous.
John Dekker
absolutely stunning, beautiful lines, wonderful color, great composition
AlliD
Great shot. I love the way you’ve used the wheel tracks to draw the eye right to the horizon. Lovely colours too.
Jan Bickerton
I really like this, very well done.
chris galeano
nice work well done
Robert Boretti
WOW! I’m speechless. This is outstanding photography. I am very impressed!
Vikram Franklin
This is really, really good. Love the leading lines – the colours and the sky.
Bradley Shawn ...
A perfect composition. I wanted to get some wheat fields but by the time it stopped raining and I got some time, all the fields had been harvested already. Oh well, I can look forward to next year. Super shot. Love all the colours and details. Is this a HDR?
Graeme Pettit ... in reply to Bradley Shawn Rabon’s comment
Hi Bradley, no, not HDR in the term most people mean.
I work the base jpg image for gamma correction and then dodge and burn different sections multiple layers, usually adjusting the visibility of each until I am happy. Then I tend to apply any saturation boost and will probably, at some point, do a noise reduction or selective sharpening before flattening the whole. Some images are worked in PSP6, others in elements, but the majority will see photoshop if I start fiddling with them for sales purposes and home printing. This one took about 10 minutes of work, and it is rare I will spend much more than 5 minutes on any image. I still don’t think the horizon is right in this one, but I reached a point of no return late one night, very tired, and nodded off before I finished it fully
David Wyatt
Fantastic shot!
Brendan Schoon
Wonderful shot!! Great colors and a perfect composition!! Had to favorite it!! Very well done.
Brendan
Ngaitahu, 24 days ago
Beautiful shot – the lines take your eye right in and then on into the threatening clouds which provide such a contrast with the rest of the scene. Very well composed though as you noted above there is something not quite right with the horizon. But its a great shot!
M G Pettett, 7 days ago
A very strong composition with the tracks pulling your eye straight in. The almost monochrome sky contrasts nicely with the rich tone of the crop. Well seen in the first place and well treated. The sloping line where the crop ends doesn’t worry me at all – I think it adds to the picture.