Avebury

[Pete Askew]

Part of the outer ring at Avebury.

Leica M Monochrom + Zeiss Distagon M 18mm f1:4 + B+W 090 (light red) filter. ISO 320, 1/500s at f1:5.6. PP in LR and Nik SilverFX Pro 2.

 

[David Mitchell]

Beautifully composed and shot as per usual Pete, such awesome sky

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Agreed. The composition is superb. That's quite a shadow that rock is casting.

 

[David Mitchell]

I have also noticed that the image could also be cropped square

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks both. The sky is courtesy of the red filter.

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

Brilliant image, Pete. The first rock has so much telling to the rest of a perfect composition.
I see you got yourself a Leica M Monochrom. Having seen some other images, I thought M Monochrom has the closer feel to film B+W. How do you like it? What's your assessment on Zeiss vs Leica lenses?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I'd like to see more from this beautiful camera, Pete.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Nihat. Yes, I've had the Monochrom a while now. It is very, very film like but utterly unforgiving on highlights. Files are fairly flat out of the camera but that is a good thing. They work up very nicely in SilverFX. The Zeiss lenses have a distinctly different look to the Leica glass. Not quite as well corrected for geometry and maybe slightly higher in contrast.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Nice! We must of past each other today.
I was meaning to pop here today, but the usual story of my life these days is, kids got grumpy, tired, and wanted to go home

 

[Pete Askew]

You obviously got the sacrifice wrong!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Great image Pete, a delight to see it when it opened. A little bit of magic.

 

[Beth Carter]

really nice photo pete, love the comp. and sky.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks both.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

lovely use of the wide lens Pete - and the red filter

Would love to see the color version

 

[Brian Moore]

Yeah,...lets have the color version, Pete.

Lovely image. I love this pre-history stuff!

 

[Steve Dormer]

Wonderful monochrome Pete well composed and delightful tones throughout.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Chris, Brian and Steve.

 

[Lesley Jones]

What a wonderful image! I love the way the big cloud balances the foreground rock and the processing is superb!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Love it Pete, missed this earlier, lets see more form the Mono Lieca

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Lesley and Kev. Will do.