Stills

I'm not very good with arable, Rex, so I don't know whether this is wheat, oats or barley. You can see a hazel green in the hedgerow and 'spring' green in the row of small trees behind. A shot in a different direction has about a dozen greens in it!
 

What can I say? Lots and lots of green. Like rex the tracks appeal, this is a working farm. Nice to see some telegraph poles which are a great deal rarer in England than they used to be.
 

Ah, John, you know I like monochrome landscapes!

As I'm mentioned in your introduction I feel authorised to write in a different vein than normal.

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I can imagine this as a view from a train window. Perhaps in Wiltshire on the run from London down to Devon. I'm nicely insultated from it by double glazing and I can smell cheap coffee, not farmyards.

If this had been my picture, I would have wanted that foreground sharp. There is lovely texture there. I want to be able to touch it.

I would probably have made more of the lead in tractor marks in the bottom right, even if that had meant losing the positioning of the barn.

Perhaps, also, a little more separation of the trees from their background - although this may have proved too difficult in colour. Talking of which, how accurate is this colour? Did you take a gray reading?

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I actually like it :-) As you know I tend not to see pictures like this when I'm out photographing. I'd have probably been looking at my feet and not noticed the barn at all!

JohnJo: our phone line and many others near here are just laid along the side of the road. Sometimes covered, sometimes not. A part of ours runs in a river bed. I've recently been seeking out some older telegraph poles (the 'dovecot' kind) and these may well feature in future photos.
 

Unfortunately, this is not for printing because too much has been lost to the lack of DOF (f5 at ISO 200 with the 50 - 200), including some cropping of the foreground. I cropped a very small amount at the top purely to emphasize the field. So why continue with it you may ask? Mainly because I got close to the picture I saw despite an uncooperative sun. The time budget for the day didn't allow for me to prance around in brambles for more than 5 minutes!

The comparison with a view from the train in Wiltshire strikes a chord. And the coffee never seems to get any better either! No, no gray reading but the greens are reasonably close to reality: young grain growth does tend to this colour and newly emerging leaves on trees have very varied colours. I remember thinking how amazing it was that the colour of the paint on the barn was so close to that of the crop.
 

Many, many lines here. And most take me straight past the shed. But I always seem to end up back at the shed so something must be bringing me there. It's the row of trees - they are merging in quite nicely with their surroundings yet have enough strength to hold their own and bring my eye from leaving the picture top left. You could easily lose the bottom third and gain from punching up the green just a little more.