Church and Graveyard

highton-ridley, on June 18, said:

Holy Trinity Church and cemetery, Buckfastleigh.

See my blog for more.

wx, on June 19, said:

Wonderful back light that brings a splendid bright halo to the different elements of the picture. Perfect composition and excellent distortion correction. Y* at first sight and voted best of! Cheers, wx

© Tom Lussier, on June 19, said:

I'd like to echoe the words of wx. A real beauty Mark. Nice work my friend. ~Tom

Lui Brandt, on June 19, said:

I agree: wonderful light! :-)

highton-ridley, on June 19, said:

Thanks again guys - you too, Lui

HDR and a bit of d&b to the rescue on this one! You know, it's getting harder to get up of my stomach from shots like this. My bones are getting older.

Talking of bones, on my blog there's the first full telling of the story of the caving dig I was on where we came up underneath this cemetery. Freaky!

MLVargas, on June 20, said:

Extraordinaria fotografía en b&n.Además de un tema que me gusta mucho.

Un saludo.

galfer, on June 25, said:

Wonderful picture highton, great composition. Greetings from México. galfer.

highton-ridley, on June 27, said:

Thanks ML and Galfer, I'm really pleased you liked them - hopefully they might inspire you :)

Cheers, --Mark

Marina.S, on June 27, said:

Very beautiful !!!!

Guillem Martin, on July 4, said:

Nice B&W shot. Good atmospher. Voted. Greetings from Spain. Guillem

Roberto Figoli, on July 12, said:

Great picture. Voted

Rainer Warzecha, on July 26, said:

Beautiful!

Marina.S, on July 26, said:

VOTED !!!

highton-ridley, on July 26, said:

Thanks to all of you for your kind words and votes :) They are really appreciated!

D.R.Lamont, on August 5, said:

I really like this shot! the only thing is that tree and half gravestone on the left, they are a bit distracting and might be better off if they were cropped out. just a thought.

highton-ridley, on August 6, said:

Hi Vinz, thanks for your suggestion. If you slide the window to the left to see what that cropping looks like, you'll should note a couple of things.

First, the image looks unbalanced, too 'heavy' on the rhs. Secondly, it gives the eye a route to 'escape' out of the picture.

With the edge of the gravestone and the tree included, whan the eye moves left, it gets swept up and back into the picture again.

At least, it does for me, lol!

Thanks again for the suggestion. Anyone disagree with me?