Saskatchewan
 

Here's a few pictures I took on my business trip through Saskatchewan last week. I didn't feel like stopping a lot but there were some great views of all the crops coming up.

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Wow! Its so flat and endless! Thanks for the pics!

very cool pic....

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may be as flat as hell but,.....it sure is gorgeous!!!



thanx man.......

Living in the western U.S., I never get to see flat land. Cool pictures.

By the way, what is being raised in the second pic (purple flowers)?

Wow. Such a simple yet beautiful landscape up there. Nice shots sherpahigh!

Business trip? Doesn't look like you have a boring desk job...

so much ... nothing ... cool :)

Nice pics sherpahigh, you have captured the land of my youth quite well. Where exactly were you in Sask?

Thanks for all the comments. I'll try to take some more pictures the next time I'm through the province in a month or so. The scene will be very different then near harvest.

Pretty sure it's a crop called Flax. Looks pretty cool driving down a straight as hell gravel road. The picture doesn't really capture the full effect of color unfortunately.

thanks, those bins are what the company I work for manufactures. They don't really make interesting subjects so it's hard to get cool shots of them.


Not really a boring desk job. I 'get' to travel through Sask. and to other places we sell bins about once every couple of months. The job has taken me to Denmark, Sweden and Australia. New Zealand's on the list this fall.

I was all over Sask on that trip. Started out down South through Assiniboia, Weyburn a few smaller towns up to Regina, Southey, Indian Head, Yorkton then up to Saskatoon, Wilkie and Kindersley before heading home.

I really wish I took the time to get some pictures of the Qu'Appelle valley. There's some beautiful stuff around there. Next time I suppose.

That's just what I had imagined Saskatchewan would look like. Really nice pictures.

Sherpa, I like the pictures very much. Thats cool that you came to my neck of the woods.

those are absolutely beautiful.

thanks for sharing those.

i'm gonna go back & look at them some more. :)

Okay, time for some constructive criticism.

1st:
Needs a little bit straightening up, also it looks like the compression/resizing played havoc on the horzontal lines of the 'barrels'. There seems to be also a lot of moiré on almost all of the barrels. I also think that this picture could have more impact if it was symmetric.

2nd:
Front is out of focus, ruining the picture. When shooting landscapes, you should stop down your aperture to a reasonable level and usually put the focus on 1/3rd from the bottom to horizon and then re-compose. There's also a cob(?) on the left side which is completely unnecessary element in the picture.

3rd:
Horizont is tilted, giving the feeling that the houses are 'sliding' out of the picture. Very unnatural. You can easily straighten your horizont with image editing programs.

4th:
Easily the best photograph of this set. Well done. I like the composition, the feeling of peace flowing from the picture. The only things that need fixing are the right side and the placement of the horizont. On the right, the house 'joins' with the edge of the picture which should be avoided. Horizont in this picture should also be somewhere else than on the middle. Generally it's encouraged to make a decision between the ground and the sky, which one is more interesting and then using that as the major element. Exposure seems to be also somewhat off (over).

5th:
Another succesful shot. The front is in focus and the horizont is only little bit tilted. Just fix the tilt and the exposure and this will be a very satisfying shot.

6th:
Repetition of the last one, this time correctly exposed (see how the yellows have the necessary depth and sky is not burned out. E.g. there's a lot more detail in there). I'm not sure about the inclusion of the forest on the right, it distracts the viewer from the field which is absolutelly the main element of the photograph and deserves attention.