Flint Hills #3

• Gleaner

• Nov 27, 2004

This is great Alex. WIDE OPEN. The shack down there keeps a low profile. Are those Cedars of Lebenon on the right?

 

• Francesco

• Nov 27, 2004

Very nice Alex. Wow, you are using one of my fav group of materials here - JC400 with Pyrocat with Neutol split dev with catechol. Awesome composition, seems like a joust is about to take place between the trees and the barn.

By the way, how are you liking the Neutol-PPPD split dev thingie?

 

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  Alex Hawley

• Nov 27, 2004

Thanks Mike. Wide Open is right. Much of this area is still open range. Have no idea what kind of cedars those are - except they looked quite old.

Thanks Francesco. The split development is doing great. I'll send you an e-mail with an example and some observations.

 

• Donald Miller

• Nov 27, 2004

Nice image Alex. Sometimes less is more. I would love to see this as a 7X17 or 8X20 print.

 

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  Alex Hawley

• Nov 28, 2004

Thanks Don. I'm dying for an 8x20. The first time I framed up a shot in the Flint Hills, it just spoke "this needs to be 8x20". Alas!

 

• Donald Miller

• Nov 28, 2004

Alex, since this was obviously shot either early or late in the day, I wonder how this would appear shot at the other extreme. Would shadows give more definition to the distant hills?

 

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  Alex Hawley

• Nov 28, 2004

Not sure Don. This was facing West, mid-afternoon. Maybe mid-morning would put more light out there. I'm experimenting, trying to come up with a good combination of film, exposure, time of day, for this area. Sending you a PM.

 

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  dr bob

• Nov 28, 2004

A very expressive picture. I sorta loose myself in it...the apparent isolation of the trees, one dead or dying, the farmhouse, abandoned (?) or do I see - imagine - smoke from a cookstove? Wonderful.

 

• James Bleifus

• Nov 28, 2004

Wonderful image. The shadows and barn on the left balance the trees on the right perfectly.

Cheers, James

 

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  Alex Hawley

• Nov 28, 2004

Thanks Dr Bob and James. I think the building is more of a cattle shelter or feed barn, but in these parts, it may have a small stove and bunk room. This area was a part of the old Wild West.