Ace photog Laurie Jeffery visited me today, we had a nice lunch, and then we decided to go to Winter Hill to take a few shots. Laurie needed some clouds, and it was a great day for that. Very cold though, the wind cut right through you.
This is taken with a Tamron 11-18mm super-wideangle lens. (17-27mm 35mm equivalent.) And it's a combination in Photoshop of two exposures, otherwise the ground would be too dark or the sky too light.
The falling-down walls and fences of the UK (not seen much in Denmark) may be due to economics, but visually they are more interesting than more modern stuff.
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I find that human-made found objects in nature are as visually interesting as the sleeker, more modern found objects. The first type speaks to the sacred soul; the second type of object speaks to the divine spirit. I find it interesting, too, that we (as photographic artists) have a wide range of tools at our command to manipulate images to meet (or exceed) our visual and thematic expectations.
Incidentally, the Japanese have a wonderful word for the old and the beautiful: sabi. Sabi celebrates the beauty of a person, place, or thing that exists in desolation, old age, and decay - not to be confused with Wabi, which is a person, place, or thing with depth and mystery in its simplicity or an activity where no movement is wasted and no object is superfluous - and not to be confused with Wabi-sabi, which has become synonymous in many people's minds with Wabi.
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