mb - Church in Amulree - Solitude

Beautiful place :-)

I agree with Eva!:)it's so peaceful place with the church/chapel,the animals and the green grass..I love it!:)

Eva and Ancsa, thank you very much! It was raining and the place was off the big road as you can see on the next photos, just the places I like.

Greetings, May

Thanks for digging this shot out May and I'm really glad that you did ~ the little church stands out so well contrasting with the green ~ to have the horse and sheep emphasises the rural nature of the church and the little splash of red compliments the green. What a pity it was raining for you so as to make the background hills so very faint, but it doesn't detract from the shot at all. I like this angle. Friendly greetings and have a great weekend and I hope the signs of Spring are all around you.

Nick, when you read in my second posting, what I have written below your photo of the church, you will see, that it was the way, I see the scene and how I wanted to transmit it. Unlike you again, as I told you below your photo, I don't mind the rain for taking photos, even, and maybe because it is a bigger challenge for the photographer.

For this very secluded place, I found the rain perfect as well as the telegraph poles, that's what emphasizes the loneliness of this place, connected only by the wires to the world outside. I was happy about the red table, where the people living near seem to meet in a free atmosphere of togetherness, I was careful to only get a corner of it in the photo. It makes a nice lively counterpoint to the rainy atmosphere and to the solitude, but still leaves the eye on the main subject.

May

I think that your approach is very refreshing May and totally agree that it ought to be of interest to others to read what goes through the mind of a photographer when composing a shot. I think that in your shot the wires are perfectly acceptable they can be seen connected to the telgraph poles and add to the whole. (In my shot if I have shot from further back, I would have had just a pair of cables cutting across the top left of the shot ~ not nice) I hadn't realised that the splash of red was a table, but did recognise that it added colour balance to the shot and someow accentuates the warmth of the church door and window.

I agree with you May the light drizzle is often for the better. Indeed always a colorenhancer, making places stand out more saturated and at the same time shrouding the background. I would probably have cropped the shot at shooting so that the 2 telegraphpoles would have been the framing at either side of the picture. Maybe I should really seek out this distant small church :) Warm wishes, Peter

Nick, thank you for taking the time to read my remarks. I think too, that it is of interest, to understand why a photographer has composed the photo as he/she shows it to us. Of course this is only possible, if it's not a snapshot.

Peter, I have another photo of the church without the poles, but as I explained above, this one transmits the solitude of the place like I felt it there, much more than the other one, just because of the telegraph poles. At the same time, I knew I wasn't quite off the world, since there was this umbilical cord. :)) Do you often travel to Scotland? Who knows, maybe You, Nick and me meet somewhere in the nowhere, without knowing each other - and we would think, what a traffic! :))

Warm regards to both of you, May