Lockdown (again)

[Ken Rennie]

Thursday saw the start of a 4 week lockdown: cafes, pubs, restaurants, hotels all closed. Travel for anything other than essential work, medical treatment or food shopping not advised although it is not banned. I was taking photographs about 2 miles away and walking home when the sunset kicked off. I couldn't find anywhere spectacular but a farmer's field on the edge of town looked promising especially as the recent heavy rain had created a temporary large puddle. The sun had set about 30 minutes before the first of the images and the sequence was taken over a 25 minute period. My wife, who lived there says that they remind her of Africa. Ken

 

[Dave Johnston]

These are wonderful. The period AFTER sunset can be the most interesting as subtle gradients of color develop. It's hard to choose, but I think I like the second one bet.

Dave

 

[AlanLichty]

I can see why your wife would refer to Africa with the way these work as silhouettes. I like the scenes with the puddles but the last one has the most appeal for my eyes.

 

[Ben Egbert]

These are all great Ken, but I have to agree with Alan on the last image.

 

[MonikaC]

Nice to have this close by during lockdown. I'm with Dave on #2.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Thanks everyone, I think that I can see an artifact in #2 probably caused by lightrooms automatic HDR merge. Will have a look and may merge by hand in photoshop. Ken

 

[JimFox]

That’s sad to hear about more Lockdowns Ken. If people would only take Covid 19 more serious inbetween the Lockdowns we could stop this thing. I have traveled through most of the hot spots for Covid 19 in the US over the last month before they were hot spots and noticed that I was among the only people wearing a mask, even though the stores had signs saying face masks required.

Now these photos are great! I have never been to Africa, but they definitely, especially the first one, it has an African vibe.

My favorites are #1 and 3. What a great evening this had to have been for you.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Lovely set Ken. Interesting to see different images appealing to different people. I'd go with the second and last as my favorites - the last one by a nod.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Thanks everyone. Here is the second image with a sky merged in instead of the lightroom HDR composite. Masks, I wear one when I need to but seldom go into places where I need one but many people seem to think that they are not needed. I don't know if it is the same in the USA but here we have lots of people appearing on tv with the " there is no evidence that hotels, bars, hairdressers, whatever are spreading the virus" What they are really saying is " I would like to continue selling beer, food, cosmetics etc." I haven't had a haircut or gone to a bar since this started, I need the former and would like to go to the latter but will refrain until this virus is all but over. Stay safe everyone and I hope that you can accept the result of the election even if your chosen candidate didn't win. Ken

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Great series, Ken. I think they are all excellent.

 

[David S]

Nice golden hour shots!!!