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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on December 05, 2016, 14:38:30
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A fabulous morning here, with shifting mists and sudden sunshine. Our snow has temporarily gone, but winter still brings rewards. Tarmachan Hills.
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And they travelled all the way to New Zealand to film Lord of the rings. Why????
And excellent work as always, you have a special eye for the scottish landscape. Keep them coming. :-)
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Mmm....
Scots travelled all the way to New Zealand in the 1800s to find a place like Scotland. Why?
(Something to do with the clearances, IIRC.)
I agree there are some similarities, especially in the South, so I guess that they succeeded.
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Great shot Dave.
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Fabulous landscape. I love that frost.
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Now THAT's a picture Dave! The frost, the mist, the 'moor', the mountain...Moody as h... YUP :)
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Beautiful and Crisp.
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And again, I want to retire, move to Scotland, and walk a dog!
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Very nice and moody, Dave. An example to show that sometimes wide angle lenses actually do a landscape and its details a lot of favour.
As to the question of locations for LOTR filming, NZ does have an unsurpassed range of pristine woods and tree species, plus mountain ranges, more in line with Tolkien's writings. The Westland and Fiordland regions of South Island come to mind with their massive Nothofagus forests. I recognised quite a few of the LOTR landscapes ...
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Love this one, Dave!
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My favorite image #1 from you Dave! Fabulous display of Landscape Photography !
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Thank you all so much. There is no reward higher than receiving praise from your peers and I am delighted you like this photograph.
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As to the question of locations for LOTR filming, NZ does have an unsurpassed range of pristine woods and tree species,
Ah, the Ents of course :)
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The Southern Beech (Nothofagus) delivers excellent source material for Ents. And creates LOTR-worthy forest scapes all by itself.
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Magic David ! ......you can feel touching some of those elements.......Mongo loves it
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Thanks, Mongo, I always value your opinions and I'm glad you approve of this image.
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Beautiful image, Dave - fantastic in many senses of the word. Almost prehistoric!
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Thanks, Mike, I appreciate that.
As for prehistoric - the frost has been there for a few hours, the grasses it was on a few months, the heather a few years, the topsoil everything is growing in a few hundred years, and the mountains will have looked like that since the end of the last ice-age, 12000 years ago.
Talk about a multi-layered image! ;) ;D ;D
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Nice history lesson ;D
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It is like looking at another world from our world. The image has an amazing depth, not DOF.
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David,
Wonderful. I really like the four layers in this image with the emphasis on the frost covered grass.
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Lovely picture ! I would have left - or at least tried - a little more headroom to the sky (not much) 👍🏻
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Fantastic
Thanks for sharing it
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Thank you Armando, Lowell, Floyd (can I call you Floyd?) and Akira.
Akira - accurate analysis, as usual!
Floyd - I shot it also as you suggest. Believe me, this version is better.
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I love the colors, textures, and frost, David.
Very nice and moody, Dave. An example to show that sometimes wide angle lenses actually do a landscape and its details a lot of favour.
As to the question of locations for LOTR filming, NZ does have an unsurpassed range of pristine woods and tree species, plus mountain ranges, more in line with Tolkien's writings. The Westland and Fiordland regions of South Island come to mind with their massive Nothofagus forests. I recognised quite a few of the LOTR landscapes ...
And I had a start when I recognized Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) from California early in the first movie. At that point I had just started trying to figure out where the movie was filmed because I hadn't heard beforehand.