Little Maplestead Church II

This is the colour version with the addition of the foreground grave

and flowers.

 

Little Maplestead church was built by the Knights Hospitallers in

the 12th century and is in the characteristic round shape of Templar

churches. The Knights Hospitallers looked after people making the

pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the time of the crusades while the

Knights Templar provided an armed security service for them. The

Templars became very wealthy and gave rise to the modern banking

system before being suppressed for corruption in the 15th century.

All comments welcome!

For comparison with the b&w image see Here.

Hi Colin, I prefer this photo in color, awesome sky, and the little grave adds so much to the image. Well captured. Cheers, Sondra

Thanks Sondra!

Colin, even it is in colors, the gray atmospher of winter is felt in this one( what I didnot feel in the B/W...) it has its own beauty, and the crop you did in the B/W gives another view to the same image.

Hi colin nice image u got here , however imho i think what really distracts here is the leveling as the image seems to be tilted a bit to the left, hope that help, good and best regards, RK!

Its simply awesome. Brillinat.

Thanks Pnina. It was a grey sky but enough light to make it interesting.

 

Rafik, thanks. The slope of the ground is correct but I have adjusted it out in the b&w version.

 

Kaushik, thank you!

Very nice work Col. The green of the grass is quite lovely - almost Irish.

Very creative use of that wide angle lens, Colin... very well done. I actually thought the sky was dramatic until your comments about it being only a simple gray sky. Regards.

Great atmosphere Colin,even I don't know this place it awakes in me a revisiting feeling,everything so intense,how You choose the light the perspective starting with the grave and flowers.I prefer the color too,good to be here.

Well, this is difficult, isn't it? The clouds definitely suit B&W better, so I suppose its appropriate there's more of them in the other shot, but I really like the triad set up by the flowerbed, here.

different and uncomparable and both very nice, still like this one most, because of the story in the grave with the flowers. with a new 5d you will have to find yourself a new wide angle toy :-), anyway, choice enough with canon.

You don't want another lens, you want a canvas, a brush... PAINT.

That's what you have to do. However, this is also very nice.

What I realy wanted to say is simple: Brilliant.

Oh, I only miss a parking space for a Robin Reliant. Don't know why, but this is so

British and perhaps therefore the thaught.

This is a fine shot and excellent comp, Colin. Fine PS work, all the elements work in harmony and the church building really makes the shot.

 

Best regards Michael

Colin, the master of the 10-22mm. :-D Have you seen this one yet? Inspired by you! :-D

Actually, I think that I like the B&W better ... so I'll leave the rest of my comment there.... :-)

Ditto what Wilson said. Very nice.

Well I like this colour version. The gloomy sky & the fresh green grass is a good contrast. I also like the placement of the flowers on the fg.

Colin, I'm pretty well torn between both versions. I like the perspective. I also appreciate the triangular component here with the house and trees and the flowers in the background.

I think you made a good choice which composition to turn b&w and which one to leave in colour. They both evoke different feelings. I really like the change in perspective here, with the little extra story told by the grave and flowers in the foreground.

 

I only feel the cloud in the left upper corner is a little dark, a little too contrasting with the one on the other side. I would prefer more of the dark cloud in the lower left and maybe a tad to the centre on the top, or the present one toned down a bit (but I guess you can't control clouds (yet?), and if you did, they wouldn't have been around throughout the whole winter/spring ;o)

 

Anyway, I stick with what I said in the first part, two great images each with their own mood!

I'm not torn between the versions. Both are splendid photographs conveying similar feelings thru different approachesa and techniques. The contrast between the bright greens and the gloomy sky plus that first rate foreground grave make this image one of your great photos.

I object, however, to your saying about the templars corruption. A small dating correction since the run against them took place in the 14th C. Also, that alleged corruption was never proved. It looks more that it was a political affair where the "Christian" French King didn't want to have so powerful an organisation within the christendom boders.

Not an easy job to stitch three landscapes from this lens manually, hats off ! I guess you had to perform some perspective correction before stitching. You got 100 deg FOV in both directions, and a grotesque perspective. I love the flowers on the grave (?) in the foreground, your composition with lines and diagonals is superb ! What about a B&W ?

 

Cheers

Carsten

perfect montage, without your saying so i would not have guessed

Nice with the wide angle....

Colin- I love the color version of this. The foreground flowers really add drama with their angular postioning. My brain keeps whispering, "What if the flowers were going the other direction & the entire image were flipped horizonally?" So I had to try it. Just for fun & to calm the voices :) LOL.