Wheatfield Near Siena

Wheatfield Near Siena

I have been busy making a series of encaustic panels for a few photos I took last year in Tuscany. The digital image don’t seem to quite give you the textured feel and the right colour balance but I thought I would post anyway. It's a 26″ x 24″ wax panel with a 10" x 10" print.

Welcome your thoughts
Location
Tuscany - Italy
Equipment Used
Yashica MAT 124G
Exposure
Can't remember
Film & Developer
Ilford HP5+, Rodinal 1:50
Paper & Developer
Ilford MGIV Warmtone, Dektol, selenium toned, encautic wax coated, on wooden/encaustic panel
Really hard to get a sense of scale on this one, and pretty amazed that the actual print in the centre is 10"x10"! Do you think there was an old photographer went out and planted trees in clumps that would just beg to be photographed? Love it.
 
Really love the encaustic frame, and especially the 'corn silk' around the photo. Great effect. The photo is neat too. As Peter Black said, the clump of trees really makes it. One thing, I really don't think that's corn, although it's hard to tell.
 
Thanks all, enjoyed making this one. bsdunek - You are right, it wheat or barley! I live in the country and still don't know my crops.
 
grahamp said:
In the UK, and likely most of Europe, 'corn' is not maize, unlike the US. As a child in East Anglia it was one of those oddities that the local corn merchant did not sell 'corn' except in the general sense.

The presentation is well done.
You're right, grahamp. Here in the U.S. we think of maize as corn. Biblically, 'corn' was a grain, and I'm sure that's what has continued in Europe. Funny how language gets corrupted.
In any case, Mac064 has created a great picture.
 
Thanks all, your support is appreciated, I enjoyed making this and it came out better than I expected. Cheers.
 

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Member Album by Mac064
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Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon EOS 20D
Aperture
ƒ/4
Focal length
30.0 mm
Exposure time
1/1250 second(s)
ISO
400
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
_mg_3423_edited-1.jpg
File size
100.2 KB
Date taken
Fri, 28 May 2010 12:42 PM
Dimensions
697px x 750px

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