Critique Welcomed the old farmstead

[Beth Carter]

i wanted the processing to make this a little different and retro, but i'm not sure about it.. processed in lr5.

shot on a cousin's farm in virginia over the weekend. they had a dairy farm, then the gov't decided that the dairy farm business was causing too much pollution , so they paid a bunch of the dairy farm in the area to find other work. my cousins turned their dairy farm into a vegetable farm/tourist attraction, complete with a farm market. they live on the farm where stonewall jackson lost his arm during the civil war, not far from where it's buried.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

I think you were successful Beth. It reminds my of my Dads photo's of Tenn after we came back from vaca.

 

[Brian Moore]

Lovely picture, Beth. Nice bit of history, too. I just Googled Stonewall's arm. Is the farm called Ellwood?

 

[Pete Askew]

I think you have achieved the vintage look Beth and it has a hot and summery feel to it. Nice.

 

[Beth Carter]

thanks guys. ellwood is the historic "farm" down the road, it's maintained by historic funds and i think it's probably owned by the gov't. but it's basically ellwood house and a field where the cemetery is where the arm is buried. but miller's farms a lot of land around it and sold some off to developers.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I like it a lot Beth - as Pete says, hot and summery

I like the way the tree and it's shadow wrap the subject - and the cumulus is lovely

Maybe a dismembered arm in the foreground for maximum impact?

 

[Beth Carter]

hmmm...have to check ebay for a used corpsified arm... think amazon would keep them in stock?

thanks chris.

 

[Brian Moore]

I like it a lot Beth - as Pete says, hot and summery

I like the way the tree and it's shadow wrap the subject - and the cumulus is lovely

Maybe a dismembered arm in the foreground for maximum impact?

Any second hand shop should have one.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Any second hand shop should have one.

You owe me a new keyboard Brian - mine is now full of coffee!