I remember summer ......

Garth Smith

I remember summer ......

..... when the poppies dried and baked under the hot sun, the warm wind gently blowing through the slender stalks, desicating the heads in the paddock.
I love winter and the change of seasons, but I always get nostalgic for lazy summer days this time of year.
NW Tasmania

Nikon D40
Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens @ 200mm
ISO200
F/11
1/200th of a second

Featured in The Male Photographer group 10th October 2009

I remember summer ...... belongs to the following groups:

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I remember summer ...... by Garth Smith
I remember summer ...... by Garth Smith
  • Shelly Hiebert

    Shelly Hiebert

    Garth this is so wonderful! Great use of DOF and the contrasting colours are perfect. I love the little shadows at the top of the dried poppies as well. Very beautiful all around :)

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Shelly

  • Gouzelka

    Gouzelka

    The photo was taken with the mind, great shot Garth!

  • Garth Smith replied

    It was Gouzelka (a warm mind Garth says on this frosty Tasmanian morning LOL)

  • Jonicool

    Jonicool

    Such a beautiful warm glow and mood!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Jonicool

  • David Clarke

    David Clarke

    Brilliant shot, Garth!!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you David, glad you like it

  • David Hibberd

    David Hibberd

    Very different but very good.
    Davo

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thanks David

  • micklyn

    micklyn

    Beautiful light, wonderful unusual colours. I really really like this. ( :

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you micklyn, yes it was the blue vs the brown that caught my eye washing over the shapes.

  • betty porteus

    betty porteus

    enormously colourful brown image with the warmth of summer
    delicious shapes screaming to be detailed in macro

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you betty, yes worth another visit for sure.

  • debsphotos

    debsphotos

    Gosh…sorry Garth!!! i thinks its time I had a break!!! This image has made me ‘see’ things wrong!!!LOL..*-)

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Debs, all is forgiven :)
    Just glad that you liked it enough to tell me so – you can call me anything you like :    )

  • Vicki Ferrari

    Vicki Ferrari

    More of that Garth Smith Magic! This is gorgeous! Love everything about this! You have a very unique style Garth! Fave!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Vicki, your continued support is much appreciated

  • traveller

    traveller

    Great composition, great capture.

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you traveller

  • Esther's Art and Photography

    Esther's Art a...

    Wow this is stunning. Beautiful colours . Great composition.

  • rosedew

    rosedew

    Fantastic!!!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Cheers Rosedew

  • Colleen Milburn

    Colleen Milburn

    This is SO beautiful, Garth! Easy fave :))

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Collen and thank you for stopping by

  • Mizz1

    Mizz1

    Wow! this is stunning..

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Mizz1

  • Linda Gregory

    Linda Gregory

    Wonderful capture, Garth. Such richness of color.

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Linda

  • Ruth Durose

    Ruth Durose

    This is just fabulous!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Ruth

  • PhotoAvenue

    PhotoAvenue

    Absolutely gorgeous.. love the colors…. Great DOF

  • Garth Smith replied

    thank you PhotoAvenue

  • photosbyflood

    photosbyflood

    Good Morning Garth .This is a very nice image I really like the contrast of the steel blue bulbs and the rust of the stalks I also like the contrasts of shapes lines and repition of pattern. This would work well as an abstract. DOF is excellent. Great work here!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Patrick, yes it was the blue vs brown that caught my eye as much as anything. I was driving the back roads (as I love doing) and came across a paddock of these. Had seen dry standing stalks heaps of times before but had never noticed the vibrancy of the colours like was evident here. We had heatwaves last summer and it seemed to bring out an intensity in a lot of normal colours.

  • Virginia N. Fred

    Virginia N. Fred

    Wow they go on for miles, how sad but yet so very beautiful, well done…gina

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Gina, glad you like it.

  • Lynne Haselden

    Lynne Haselden

    Evocative. Late summer, warm sun, dry wind, crackly brown stalks and seed heads. Very simple but a lovely story. :)

  • Garth Smith replied

    Exactly Lynne, you have summed it up perfectly.

  • Catherine Hadler

    Catherine Hadler

    Lovely image. I was reading the other day about wallabies getting high in poppy fields in Taz and creating crop circles!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Catherine very much.
    ummmm I think someone might have been having a lend of you.

  • inAWE

    inAWE

    what incredibly beautiful colours and tones here….... there is such art in nature, if we have the eyes to see…...

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much inAWE

  • Janette Dengo

    Janette Dengo

    This is an auto fav. It’s so awesome… I remember walking through the poppy fields in Europe when I was a child and it’s one of my most fond memories. Then in September the red was all gone and only the pods remained though there was always something so magical about them. They all stood tall like soldiers – even though the petals were long gone. I love this capture Garth, the colour is also very wonderful. ♥

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Janette and sorry for the delayed response.

  • bronbennie

    bronbennie

    superb image Perfection

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you bronbennie and my apologies for the delay in commenting

  • lroof

    lroof

    excellent! I love it!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Iroof and thank you for the faves.

  • nadine henley

    nadine henley

    great shot!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you Nadine.

  • Lynn and Lee Deamer

    Lynn and Lee D...

    Wonderful depth of field. Poppies are so amazing from the the time they burst out of their jackets right through to the dried buds shown here. The tones in this are terrific.

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Lynn & Lee. I had never quite seen or captured these tones like this before, I think the heatwaves we had last summer had very special light qualities that brought that little extra out of certain parts of the countryside.

  • Jan Timmons

    Jan Timmons

    This is poetry, Garth! I love the patterns and I do love the poppy pods full of seeds for the coming year. Love this shot! I didn’t expect to have such an positively excited reaction to this, but the colours, pattern and the shallow depth of field makes this just too, too tempting. Don’t make me buy it, please!

  • Jan Timmons

    Jan Timmons

    Uh, oh. I’m weakening! Hold me back. My accountant would chastise me.
    Way too appealing, and deserving many, many exclamation points. !

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much for the beautiful words Jan.
    And just to make things that little bit harder for you, and to maybe appease your accountant a certain extent – I have just dropped my markup on this one from 100 to 40% for a couple of days.
    Don’t feel at all obligated though.

  • sonjas

    sonjas

    Great image. Well done

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you sonjas

  • Kenny Gulley Jr.

    Kenny Gulley Jr.

    what an outstanding image… more than a thousand words to describe

  • Garth Smith replied

    They are very kind words indeed Kenny, thank you very much.

  • betha

    betha

    Excellent image!!

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you betha

  • Matthew Dawkins

    Matthew Dawkins

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Matthew
    Greatlt appreciated as its my first feature for this photo and first feature since joining this group too.
    regards
    Garth

  • Cathy Walker

    Cathy Walker

    This is stunning

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you very much Cathy

  • LouJay

    LouJay

    Lovely warm tones. Beautiful image.

  • Garth Smith replied

    Thank you LouJay

  • rubyjo

    rubyjo 29 days ago

    you’re gonna think i’ve lost my freaking mind here-
    but that scene makes me think of ladies walking away with their sunday hats on their heads, i swear i can see them moving…
    awesome seems too shallow a word for this

  • Garth Smith replied 29 days ago

    No I dont actually. I see them too.
    Skinny old harridans walking home from church with taught faces and the cloned daughters in tow.
    And …well….. it may be too shallow….. but you can call it awesome if you like.. LOL
    Thank you very much rubyjo

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