Autumnal Norfolk Broads

[readingr]

This is from a holiday last week.

Roger

[Overbeyond]

Very nice shot Roger and it shows well how certain places can look at this time of the year.

[Frog]

The pics pretty nice but I'm very dissappointed that there doesn't seem to be any broads.

[shootme]

Very nice, great time of year for photography...actually any time is...

[LeeIs]

Ha ha ha Frog, that killed me.
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I guess for me Tom, it's a bit too flat. I wish there was a bit more depth.

[gahspidy]

A beautiful scene, Roger. I do agree it needs a little something more as it looks flat. Either something prominent in the fg or just getting in closer to the pond.
Frog, I think the broads are standing arm in arm with Roger as he took this. . .

[readingr]

Hey Frog :lol:, and to answer gary, yes Helen was holding onto the dog lead not my hand . We just left the hire boat for a walk over one of the dykes.

Tom, Leels, Shootme thanks for the response.

I cropped the reeds from the front of this pic so here it is without cropping - does this add enough depth and is the foreground OK? I originally cropped it as I thought it created a barrier you had to navigate to get into the rest of the pic.

What do you chaps think of the uncropped version?

Roger

[lemon]

I like the 2nd one you posted here better. I would probably crop some more of the sky out and see how that goes...

[LeeIs]

The uncropped is definitely better. Yet it is still a bit flat. Like everything is on the same plain. All the tree tops line up. Now that I have said that. That is one of the things that bothered me in the original as well, i just didn't realize it till now.

[readingr]

Lemon, thanks for the feedback.

Liban,

Never noticed the tree alignment and its a very good point. I went back to the other 12 shots from this location and their all the same. In fact most of the photo's from the Broads have all the trees almost level no matter where they were shot. It's as if someone took a chainsaw to all the trees on the broads and levelled them.

I couldn't get lower to get this shot to get separation because on the other side of the reeds is a dyke full of reed infested water. The majority of the broads is between -1 and 15 meters above sea level so its very flat and near the broads a lot of it is marshland.

The dyke I'm standing on is about a meter above the river level so the ground you see is below the river level.

Roger

[GB1]

Nice, simple shot. I like it because I like nature shots. It doesn't have any particular subject or make a statement, it's just a simple scene of the peaceful outdoors. I like the simpleness of the sky too. Nice work

G