Stills

Of course hawthorns are rather large bushes.

I think that that this captures rather well a certain sort of English (or Welsh borders) countryside. I'm sure I've walked past this very spot, in ...Sussex... Hampshire... Surrey.... anyway you get the idea.

I'm not sure it works pictorially though. Did the intricacies of the stitching lead to a rather static approach?
 

Matt - I'll take it that dirt track has other meanings in the US than here (tends to mean unpaved road, usually in poorer areas a la Latin America). What you see is grass and just the hint of bare earth on the footpath going off to the right.

Auspicious - to be honest, I'm not sure what you mean by static approach. There is little space at the end of the graveyard before one gets to the small mound so I stood with the graveyard right at my back and chose a panorama rather than a wide angle shot. Movement is provided by the swirl of the different paths both up and down and around the mound. A scene not untypical around England but I haven't seen this particular configuration before.
 

John, I was struggling to find the words to put across the idea in my mind. Hence tailing off with the lame 'static approach' sentence.

The name that popped into my mind when I first looked at this was Robert Adams. I know this isn't a RA shape, and that the medium differs too, but it was his name, nonetheless, that I thought of. I associate him with photographs that are bound up with meaning that need words to express. You can't get the content of the photo without the words. And I think that he gets so bound up in his meanings that the resulting photos look like he forgot that they are things to be looked at.

I'm wondering if, in your desire to get the whole story in, you haven't missed a more visually compelling picture there somewhere.

Without the caption, I'd say this was a picture of some odd and rather large bushes along a dirt road.

Now I've probably stepped on too many toes and I'll retire for the evening.
 

No - that's understood. Just can't quite get my mind round dirt road!

"...Dirt road is a common term for a type of unpaved road. It is distinguished from other types of unpaved roads, such as gravel roads and macadamized roads in that it is composed solely of the native subgrade material. Dirt roads are common in rural areas of many countries, although they are also found in some metropolitan areas.

Dirt roads vary in width; ones that link heavy industry are typically wide, while private roads are typically so narrow that two vehicles side by side might not fit...". Wikipedia.
 

I tend to think in terms of BOATs, RUPPs, Bridleways and footpaths having an interest in RoW (Rights of Way).

(BOATs=Byway Open to All Traffic; RUPP= Road Used as a Public Path)

So this image is evocative of my exploration of RoW.
 

Like Matt, I interpreted the track as muddy. Now that you say it's grass I can see it but it wasn't my first impression. I don't know if this is the way the scene actually was but I find myself wanting to see an outer edge to the curve at the bottom of the image. I think this might have been better presented in colour? That sky looks like it wants to be blue John.
 

Johnjo - the question of the curve at the bottom is endlessly debatable. I think that it could be better with more but I am not sure that hinting at the curve doesn't have its merits. As to colour - the b/w is a particular way of looking at the scene and, despite 'large bush and dirt road' syndrome does convey what I wanted.
 

There's nothing in the picture that's strong enough to keep my attention for too long. It does have its fair share of curls and whirls though. But the composition I'm presented with takes my eyes very quickly from left to right. The downward arc of the curve speeding this up a little. Can't fault your stitching though (can't see the joins). So as an example of this technique I find no fault.