Italia - Umbria - Perugia - Castelluccio di Norcia #5

In the plan of Castelluccio, central Italy, each year you can experience a

wonderful show of colors and flowers. The lentils' fields, for square

kilometers, fill up with flower of various colors. The phenomenon, in italian,

is called "la fiorita" that means "the flowering".

Tnx for comments and ratings.

Mauro

these flowers are obviously not lentil flowers - are there lentil (the legume) plants in the fields ( the green maybe?) or does this  "lentils" have another meaning.I wonder how they can harvest the crop with so many other flowers interspersed.

Beautiful, anyway!

Beautiful view, Mauro!

A slight improvement would be to crop out the top of the frame at the level of the last row of blue flowers, since the topmost bright green does not add much to the composition, in my opinion.

This would make the frame very impressionist like!

Best regards, Alex.

Simply gorgeous.  Amazing colours.

Thank-you friends for your comment. Actually you are right and the flowers don't belong to lentils (that have an insignificant small pale blue flower). They are poppies (the reds) cornflowers (the blues) a don't-know-the-name infesting of lentils (the yellows) and daisies (the whites).

Hi Alex and thank-you for your contribute. Unfortunately i don't agree with you. I think, indeed, that the yellow strip close to the upper corner followed by new blues and reds at the horizon helps to create a sense of infinite progression of colors.

Mauro, your point of view makes perfect sense!

When I first looked at the image the colour layers perspective made me explore the frame from the foreground to the background. Then my eyes were stuck in the top left corner, trying to make sense of the more defined shapes of the hay rolls and I lost track of what I was looking at...

Cropping the top was my crude way of "cloning out" these rolls on an iPad!

Best regards, Alex.

Hi Alex and thank-you for answering. That oh the hay rolls is an interesting point, because I was unsure if thy were a plus or not in this picture. I thought that leaving objects whose dimensions are known would have helped to figure out the dimensions of the landscape. On the other hand they can be actually disturbing, because they introduce a realistic approach in a picture that plays its plus on the impressionistic level. In this sense the right thing to do is to clean out the rolls. I tihink I will try and evaluate (submitting it to you opinion too, of course) the effect.

Bye

Mauro