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Old Mill Reflection

An old mill reflects on a field flooded after the rain.

An old mill reflects on a field flooded after the rain.
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Canon EOS REBEL T2i

settings

Aperture f/22.0 ISO 500 Shutter 100/2999

upload_date

Jul, 2013

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5484

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Awards

Zenith Award

Creative Winter Award

Curator's Selection

Top Shot Award 21

Legendary Award

Member Selection Award

Contest Finalist in Barns and Farms Photo Contest

Featured

Superb Composition

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Absolute Masterpiece

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Top Choice

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Peer Award

+58

Outstanding Creativity

+58

Jaw Dropping

+32

Superior Skill

+18

Exceptional Contrast

+11

All Star

Magnificent Capture

Virtuoso

Genius

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Brilliant! More like a surrealist painting than a photograph.

PRO+

stunning colors & lighting. Framed perfectly!

wow

Great light and reflections.

Fabulous & a 5 ***** fave :D

five stars from me too

Wonderful building, great work

Stunning! Congrats!

Beautiful. Congratulations on being featured.

Very cool!!!

Wow. This is one of the most amazing pictures i have ever seen!!

Extraordinary!

Congrats!

stunning! Congrats

congrats on your feature. Great shot. the color is awesome as well as the reflection. Very clean

congrats, fantastic, please take a look at my work

Awesome capture! Congrats.

Stunning!! A masterpiece.

Platinum

What a shot, where was this taken at?

Great shot, the colors are amazing! Congrats!

Platinum

Stunning, Stunning Shot! Congrats on your feature!

awesome pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Congrats,spectacular capture!

Spectacular photo!!

Platinum

Just superb, super light, reflections and color!

Wow, what a major beaut this is. Congratulations on winning feature. Well deserved!

Wow! Amazing shot! Love it!

Great shot!

Beautiful.Congrats!

Platinum

Fabulous!!!!

Ultimate

Wowser, great stuff!

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Outstanding !!!!

Fantastic work!

Great shot

awesome! congrats

una fotografía muy hermosa, felicitaciones

Wow.Wonderfl pic captured.

Fantastic work, congrats!

Top Class, Congrats

Congrats!

Great shot. Congrats on the feature.

Platinum

Fantastic. Congrats

awesome shot

Great shot! Congratulations on your feature!

Beautiful photo mate!
The reflection is just amazing.Love the sky.

Congrats on being featured! Nice post work on this image. love the colours!

Beautiful work of art!!

Wow, this is simply amazing. I love that old building.

well done! congrats!!

Love this!

Honestly!!!!!! Possibly the best photograph I have ever seen! I'm giving up haha!

Beautiful shot! Congrats!

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Fantastic Capture!! Congrats on feature

Wow congrats :)

this is a wonderful shot...truly breath taking...

Beautiful shot!

magnificent shot ......congratulation

Great shot

Amazing

WOW! congrats!

Very Cool, Where is this?

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Beautiful!

Platinum

Wow - awesome shot! Congrats!

This is one of the best photos I've seen at VB !!!!
Perfect!!!!

Awesome capture! Congrats!

Platinum

Beautiful image. Congrats. - Jake

Fantastic image,congratulations

Amazing Capture.

You have such vivid colors in all your photos and I like how you add an element of poetry to enhance the subject's essence. Striking!!

Excellent

Brilliant.

Platinum

Definately has the wow factor

stunning! love the tone

NICE WORK

PRO+

Love the reflection, great job!

Fantastic! Great light and color.

WTG! Wonderful comp! Congrats on the Hall of Fame

I think this is the best landscape photo to date! toni

Stunning

nice congrats

What ...but magical shot

Nice shot!!

How beautiful! I love it

Outstanding shot!great colors and perfect reflection!

Unbelievable! Great timing

nicely done

amazing colors, weird building ;-), great capture

good shot and great reflections

Very Nice

Espectacular!

Beautiful

Nice long exposure. Excellent framing and stunning colours. Well done.

Platinum

Absolutely gorgeous - voted!

Platinum

Congrats on being a finalist!

Congrats on being a finalist Eric! Wonderful image.

Wow......stunning reflection.

Great shot. Very different.

Absolutely stunning image--what a capture.

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Wow! This looks like it could have been shot near where I live! Good job!

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A splendid image! I hope you win!

Congrats.

Congrats!

Beautiful...just Beautiful...Wow!!!

congrats

Has everything!

Awesome photo! Congrats!

Best place, best moment, best capture, congrat

Stunning image. First class colors and lighting

Truly amazing!!!

Has my vote!

Perfect pic

Awesome shot.

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken outside a small town in Washington called Pullman. The area has a lot of wheat farmers and this used to be and old silo for storing the wheat. Behind the silo you can see the harvested golden stubble from the wheat and the shadow from the building.

Time

The sun was just setting and clouds where wisping (I'm not sure thats officially a word but just go with it) past. In front of me a hill was starting to cast a shadow so that only the top of this old silo was illuminated by the golden evening light.

Lighting

The yellow light from the golden hour was just what I needed to play off of the already present yellows and warm tones in the building and the ground. It created a nice contrast against the cool blues in the sky.

Equipment

I used a Cannon Rebel mounted on a tripod for a long exposure.

Inspiration

This building is wonderful in the way it mimics the buildings in a Dr. Sues book. The way the top of the silo sits over the bottom part they look like different building stacked together like from a game of Jenga that a couple of giants might have been playing.

Editing

To expose for the sky and the building I took an HDR image using three exposures at two stop intervals. Without the extra dynamic range the bottom of the silo would have been shrouded in shadow (and mystery perhaps?). I wanted to squeeze every drop of texture and detail out of the shadows and every blue glimmer from the sky.

In my camera bag

Lets start with the most important thing (are you guessing camera right now?) Its a granola bar...nothing ruins a good picture like being hungry and impatient. Beyond that I have my scratched, muddied Cannon Rebel 2Ti. I have 3 lenses, fisheye, 18-35mm, and a 50-100mm. I always carry my tripod...its a pain but its worth it.

Feedback

My advice to capturing this sort of picture is not to set out to capture an image like this. What I mean is when I go ONLY to take a picture I have a lot less success then when I got with the mindset to experience the place. Listen to your senses, be still, feel the wind, the warmth of the light...if those inspire you then make a picture, if not just absorb the moment.

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