Archive 2013 · LDS Farm

Bryan Mordt
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I had amazing light tonight, it just got better and better. Here is the last photo from the night.

San Tan Valley_06.jpg by bryanmordt, on Flickr

Jul 21, 2013 at 12:35 AM

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Hey Bryan,

I love the color of the clouds and the sky, but I have to say you really blew it with the foreground... some asphalt pavement and a white tarped block of something? You couldn't have run into the field to your left? Or drove up that road a bit more? I am guessing time was short and you were just trying to grab something, but I hate to say it, your foreground choice really doesn't work.

Second, I don't get your title at all. I don't see a farm at all.

Sorry for being probably a bit tactless, but it's a shame to see that beautiful of a sky wasted with that foreground, and I don't know how else to put it but straight forward.

Jim

Jul 21, 2013 at 01:41 AM

Derek Weston
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · LDS Farm

I think he meant LSD farm.

Great shot!

Jul 21, 2013 at 02:00 AM

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I understand that a lot of folks like their landscape shots to exclude "the hand of man" but for me the contrast of the sublime and mundane in this shot works. It woud be cool to have a traditional one as well, though I don't see a vantage point that wouldn't at least have utility poles. The light is spectacular here.

Phil

Jul 21, 2013 at 02:00 AM

Bryan Mordt
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · LDS Farm

Hi Jim, I really appreciate the constructive remarks. That tarped object was 20 feet tall and the way it was catching all that reflected light pulled me to include it. The farm itself is modest but this was the land around the farm.

However there is another version...

San Tan Valley_05.jpg by bryanmordt, on Flickr

Jul 21, 2013 at 02:05 AM

JimFox
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · LDS Farm

Hey Bryan,

I do like the second one better, though if you had ran up even 50 yards forward I think it would have made a world of difference. I can see where the white tarp is reflecting color and I guess absent a lake to reflect the color you went for the best thing you could find, but ummm.... still...

That is one beautiful sky, not a sky one sees every day that's for sure.

Jim

Jul 21, 2013 at 02:31 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · LDS Farm

Derek Weston wrote:
I think he meant LSD farm.

Great shot!

I was sure hoping that wasn't a typo...

Jul 21, 2013 at 02:31 AM


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