Tinto Hill - the Lanarkshire Tyrol? Photo

Photographer’s Note

On a fine sunny afternoon last week, I caught this picture of Tinto Hill, the highest hill in Lanarkshire at 2320 feet above sea level.

This time, shot from the south near the little village of Wiston with a foreground of a field of buttercups.

Google Earth appears to be improving in this area and you can see the place quite well if you click on Map:[view].

Shot in RAW using a polarising filter and converted and edited in PSE6.

All comments/critiques/advice welcome!

BeBeHooker, bartekp, graffer, macondo has marked this note useful

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grigand (12460) 2009-06-09 13:28

Hi John,
A very nice compo, colors are wonderful, the quality is very good.
ciao
andrea

BeBeHooker (5024) 2009-06-09 13:45

Hi John!
Wonderful colours, amazing saturation. Excellent brightness. Beautiful clouds, beautiful landscape. Nice shot.
Cheers!

Clementi (42703) 2009-06-09 23:16

Ciao John,
a very beautiful landscape with some beautiful colors and a fantastic sky, beautiful calm atmosphere, fortunate the inhabitant of that house
Giorgio

bartekp (857) 2009-06-12 16:10

Hi John,

What a sharpnes and i see "deep". Colors are brigt, at the first moment i thought this was a HDR...

Bravo

Bartek

ps . i seen your gallery and we were in the same places...

graffer (1764) 2009-06-13 2:16

Hello John,

Another shot of your beloved Tinto hill. And what a fine one it is! One almost expects the camera to zoom in on Julie Andrews as she bursts into song – "The hills are alive……………………….."!

An excellent composition – the little house gives us an idea of the scale of the mountain and plays an important part in the middle ground of the picture.

A lovely sky with those puffy white clouds, and superb colours throughout, with just the right degree of saturation.

I read your recent critique remarks on HDR images with great interest and total agreement.

I too am slowly coming to terms with the new layout of TE – I have no complaints about the advertising though, as with Firefox and the adblock plug in, I never see any!

I've not been very active in posting and critiquing lately, but I do keep track of the postings you and my other favourites upload, through the email alert system.

Kind regards,

Peter.

macondo (12933) 2009-06-23 7:23

Hi John.
Just took another look at your gallery, and about time it was.
I like this one, it's quite breathtaking, really. The low viewpoint, the carpet of buttercups, and the portrait orientation, give this relatively small mountain a strong sense of verticality - if there can be such a word! The clouds almost float out of the screen, and the white house is the subtly placed focal point. Great work.
Regards,
Andrew

Photo Information

Copyright: John Cannon (tyro) (2564)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-06-05
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon 20D, Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di-II LD SP AF, Hoya 67mm Circular Polarizer
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/100 seconds
More Photo Info: view
Map: view
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-06-09 13:19