Heather in Sunlight

[jmr]

Woodhead Reservoir in Longdendale.

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[Photoskeptic]

John, that's terrific. Really like the tones. Could you perhaps darken up the clouds some?

[cocker]

John,

A great capture of a very special lighting.

[azzo]

A beautifully seen and treated b&w image John.

Azzo

[elansprint72]

That little camera continues to amaze me, well done.

[j. borger]

Terrific landscape John ... love the sweeping lines of grass & water ..!

[stuny]

John -

Gorgeous (and I'm envious)! Wonderful balance, composition, details, contrast, light and depth.

Heather is my sister's name. She was born two years before me, but somehow I've passed her by and am now five years her senior. As a young child she frequently wrote letters to strangers and sent them, usually without our parent’s knowledge. When she saw a photo of Prime Minister Clement Atlee with a sprig of heather on his lapel she wrote him a letter, telling what her given name was, and asking for the sprig of heather. About a week later a Royal Navy admiral came to our flat to take us to the just completed UN in a diplomatic Roller to have Her Majesty’s ambassador present my sister with the heather. News coverage for the next two months was astonishing, and people from all over the world wrote to Heather, sending her heather, and in some cases, things like handkerchiefs with heather embroidered on it. All this resides in a fat scrapbook that is in Heather’s livingroom.

[samwells]

John - lovely range of contrasting textures - the grass, the heather and the water. Beautiful.
cheers:
Sam

[grantray]

Great capture, and fantastic use of foreground. Did you shoot that with the D2?

-grant

[jmr]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

John, unfortunately there's no more detail to be had in the clouds - I did have another look to make sure.

Thanks Stuart for the lovely sibling story - my sister was still older than me, at least she was the last time I checked.

Grant, not the D2, this one's a C-Lux shot.

[leseinne]

awsome shot, light and textures are fantastic