La Mazade, saturday 15 july (08 p.m.)

The house that we had rent this summer in the Pyrenees orientales was situated in a little village named "La forge del Mitg" near Saint-Laurent de Cerdan. In fact, it was an apartment fit out in the old local school. By the front door, we had a view on the mountains which form the foothills of the Mont Canigou towards the West. On the foreground of this landscape was a farmhouse and a large meadow where horses were grazing. From the first day I had the idea to take at least one photo by day of this lanscape from this front door. It was moreover from there that you could have the best view point on it, I realized it quickly, more or less similar with the one you could have from the road crossing the village, two or three meters lower. On the IGN map of the Canigou massif, I saw that the name of the farm was "La Mazade". The owners don't know it but their farm will be seen for days in the whole world on internet because I intend to do a presentation of it from today, where you will see this only landscape almost under an only view point but at different hours of the day, under various skies, atmospheric conditions and lightenings, in large or closer views, in 2/3, 3/4 or panoramic formats. The title : La Mazade with the passing days.

Saturday 15 July, 08 p.m. The sun is still far to goes down but already well in progress towards the west. It is hiden by the house opposite. I thus take the photo against the light but without the disadvantage of have it in the field. Its rays very nearly parallel to the slope of the mountains are shading off all the details of those ones and drown them in an almost uniform greyness. Only the horse's meadow with its trees and the farmhouse at the back are showing some relief and elongated shadows which move forward just about towards me. I take two shots with the 105 mm lens that I will stitch later with Photoshop. I don't try to avoid the electric wires in the foreground so as to not have too much empty sky above a too tight strip of ground. I take these two photos without filter and two others with the polarizer. Two others again with a focal lenght of 135 mm and two others with 150 mm, each time with the polarizer but the two firsts are the best ones.

To be continued

Shall love to see this sereis. LOL

Nice light and cool house. Cheers!

Oh, I absolutely look forward to seeing more images of this quaint little farm. You ought to take the three best of the images and print them to put in a triptych matting format. :-)

Henri, I like the delicacy of this shot, the light over the mountains and washing across the fields. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

Thank you all. I just have to precise that the photos of this series are'nt all of great quality (this one is not among the best, it is just the first one), but I mean to display my approaches, thoughts, tests during the shooting, and the post-processing and other thoughts after scanning.

If this is a pano from two landscapes, very good stitch, no seams visible. Great impression of depth from the contrast gradient, from near to far

Henri, I'm sure you had a great time staying here. It'a beautiful place. Salut, Oliver