Spring Wheat

Simple, clean and delighted.  Very good light at the foreground.  Nice stormy clouds.  Excellent composition. Looks very natural and sharp with the details.  Also thanks a lot for your comments and kind advices. 

Elegant.

Well balanced image, in terms of colour and composition.

Nice series that evoke echoes of Vivaldi in the background, and the soft wisp of that fresh air that courses through your system as you take a brisk walk in the country after a recent rainfall.

A nice scene captured here Stephen. That nice green grass, freshly plowed brown dirt ( at least that us what it appears like to my New Jersey eyes ) and the white puffy clouds that might be building to a late day shower make a scene that makes me immediately think of spring.

The trees lacking leaves in the bottom third of the photograph contrast with the rest of the scene since they seem to be missing that spring has arrived.

What I am curious about (and it may seem an obscure question) is what kind of crop you have used here. Honestly one of the things I always look at in your photos is the interesting crops that you use but this one seems to be come in at 12.5 x 10.  Did you just crop this to what worked for you or did you have a specific format in mind here?

I have come back to this image a few times now, Those clouds are just fantastic, I couldnt work out what it was about them, but having  viewed again, I would say its the depth they give. You have a way of simplifying and breaking it down to key elements, A skill others should consider. (including myself)

Thanks everyone for your comments -- they are appreciated.  This isn't a glorious landscape, but it's all that I have in my "backyard" here in the SE corner of Washington State.

Joseph, I stick to standard aspect ratios in nearly every case.  The camera shoots at a 3:4 aspect ratio.  I ran out of trees on the left side, and I didn't want to leave a gap there.  I also had extra space at the top, and I wanted to leave just a little above the cloud on the left.  The  ratio that gave me the best look here (IMO) was 4:5, and that's what this is cropped to.

I used to crop to whatever best fit the particular composition.  I once had a bunch of framed photo that all differed by a slight amount, and I quickly learned how difficult it was to switch photographs in a particular frame.  Since then, I've stuck to standard aspect ratios (most common for me are 2:3 and 4:5, with a few 1:1 and 2:1).

Wonderfully fresh imagery.  That's your backyard?  Wow just amazingly inspiring overall captlure even if there is no real focal impact point. The view is extraordinary, love it, rek.

Pure and simple.  Love it!

very nice work!

A common but hopefully aesthetic rural scene in SE Washington State.

Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

Beautiful composition and light. I like how the clouds hang low and you don't have to look way up at them.

very very beautiful image !super!