Evening Harvest...

Canon 400D,10-20mm,f18,1/250,ISO100

With the long awaited summer storms finally here, I thought I'd set out and try and capture the feeling. Great sky's on their own don't really cut if for me and I was looking for a foreground subject. Luckily I found some classic bales of hay to help with the summer feeling (however I've noticed a lack of round bails recently, I'll have to look for other subjects). I was using a "still borrowed" 10-20mm lens, which at 10 is very, very wide and I usually stay away from that end due to the exaggerated elongation of the image (as in the foreground to background appears to be further away). But with large round bails the subjects stay at a reasonable size throughout the image. 

I do like the slight tilt of the left bail and with the wide angled lens I was able to include the one on the right as well. The sky turned out really well, unfortunately the sky really lit up about 30 min after this image was taken but then maybe I wouldn't have been able to capture the detail and tones in the foreground. 

Overall I'm happy with the image, the tones and subjects really work for that late evening summer feeling.

OxEye...

Canon400D,28-135mm,f5.6,1/200,ISO100

I really like the simplicity of this image, with the strong clean colours contrasting with the background of a meadow full of oxeyed daisy's. It took some time for the wind to calm down enough for the image to be nice and sharp, but with the overcast sky bringing out the colours it was worth the waiting.

It's a classic shot with the rules of third being applied (although I rarely comply to composition rules, if it looks good then it's a good image) and the nice shallow depth of field being held within the center of the flower really helps the yellow to pop out in this image.

Not really used to all this colour, must be all that time spent on mono images.