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Pete Askew
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Absolutely superb Julian. You have managed a very rare thing here I think by creating such a focused image from the complexity of a woodland scene. Brilliant.
Julian de'Courcy
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Thank you Pete. I was quite pleased with the outcome. I popped out because the sun was out and it all of a sudden seemed very grey and dull, so pleased that the camera did pick up the variation I could not see. I did try to shoot using various depths of focus and stitch & stack but got lost remembering which files were which . But ended with this which were three images stitched length ways instead .
Brian Moore
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That's a cracker, Julian. As Pete suggested, a focal point could easily get lost in all the branches etc., but not in this one. Excellent!
Paul Lange
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This is great Julian. Those colours in water really bring it all together. Although I wouldn't want to go for a dip.
Beth Carter
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looks like a shot of mirkwood forest from the hobbit. wonderfully warm colors and a great variety of textures.
Julian de'Courcy
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Thank you Brian, yes just luck that the light bled through where it did I think. Was not aware of it at the time.
Thank you Paul. Good for your iron levels maybe, but yes whiffs a bit.
Julian de'Courcy
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Thank you Beth, there are plenty of hobbit's down here.
Rob MacKillop
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Superb. It does look like a scene you stumbled upon and shouldn't be there. Somewhat scary.
Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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You do not have to thank me Julian. I would not have taken a picture of it, but that is because I do not see what beauty there is in it till you reveal it to us. Whether luck or not, you did it and greatly too.
Julian de'Courcy
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Thank you Rob.
It is that sort of place Paul Spector ( Jamie Dornan) would have left or held a victim , but Stella Gibson would find it (Gillian Anderson) that I am convinced .
The idea of stumbling across Gillian Anderson in there makes it a less scary place
If nobody has watched 'The Fall' It's good.
Julian de'Courcy
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This is of the very same subject as I latter came to find out, got me accepted in an interview, to study fine art in my twenties. I had a few recently home developed B+W and printed 10X8 prints, of a scene similar close to where I lived then, I literally picked them up from a table as a last moment action as I left the house to attend the interview, a spur of the moment thing. Those four images got me a place. Not the paintings, I'd Van Gough'ed about, or the endless drawing. Those four images , black and white, very dark, with anthropomorphism along with personifications of myself maybe
. This time round they are shown as something very different but I am quite fond of those original prints which although very dark held their own beauty. Shame I lost all of those old images and negatives and did not do more then. So maybe time to do it now . Off to find a bog
Asun Olivan
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Love the shot! Exactly what I have been looking for to throw in a woman dressed in a white floaty dress!!!
Julian de'Courcy
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Wow yes , I get that image. When the light is right the mud is so red rich in iron those colours against textiles , skin and assorts would be brilliant if the lighting was right. Maybe a bow of a clinker boat rising out the bog, large white flying birds with a few black crows , getting all a bit Harry potter. But yes a good setting .
Asun Olivan
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Let's do it! Any time!
Julian de'Courcy
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You can be in the dress? Or me ?
I'll see if I can catch some crows when I see some flying by , maybe a fox and some swans while I am at it. It may take a while 
A friend photographer when he studied, would rope his elderly parents into shots, such as water filled quarries, take chairs and the such, getting them to sit in the water on the chairs. It made for some great images, I suspect a lot of photographers now we are in the digital world do it by Photoshop more so than the actual. But the actual is I imagine the best way if time and resources are there.
Douglas McMann
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I'm with Beth on this...very Tolkienesque Julian...
"is there no end to this accursed forest...Thorin Oakenshield"
"is there no end to this accursed forest...Thorin Oakenshield"
Julian de'Courcy
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Appreciated Doug thank you. I did always struggle and how ever much I wished to like Tolkien , tried to read his verse on many occasions, the idea of someone called BillBOBaggins I just could not take it seriously. So therefore have little knowledge of the Tolkeque aspect
All I know is this. Those who are in favour are completely nuts about it. I missed out , which may have been a good thing, that I do not know Also saved all that time sitting in a cinema seat.
Douglas McMann
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Ah....Tolkien was an author Julian...he wrote books....on paper....not that travesty of cinematic nonsense currently in vogue with the young....
Julian de'Courcy
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O my God youre one of themAh....Tolkien was an author Julian...he wrote books....on paper....not that travesty of cinematic nonsense currently in vogue with the young....
