Best Viewed Large
It's never easy to get a clear view from the top of the 'South Mountain', looking across the dykes and the Minas Basin to the Blomidon cliffs, as it's always so misty across the bay.
You see here the farmland with the dykes winding through the countryside. You can see the highway which slices through the landscape like an ugly scar, and a farm shop roof in front of the water, stained red with the mud from the incoming tide. It is high tide, which really shows the curving path of the water well in the scene. In the distance you see Port Williams across the dyke. The hay that you see is supposed to be particularly good, grown on the reclaimed land and full of minerals. To the far right you see the sloping cliff of Blomidon, which is also a Provincial park. Kingsport, with its wonderful beach for walking at low tide lies in front of it.
It's the first landscape that I have posted in a long time, as mostly I have been focusing on blur and smaller vistas. I hope you enjoy this.
I decided to try my first panorama in Lightroom and to see what the new 'dehaze' feature would do for it, as well. Considering that I could have done a better job of taking the images, LR didn't do too badly at lining up the edges to make the photograph. I only had a small amount of cleaning up to do. I have to say it was rather 'quick and dirty' and I also found the dehaze feature to be a bit of a gimmick (it's global, creating a lot of contrast in areas where it wasn't needed) but no doubt a small amount did help. For a change I decided to upload the image at 3,500 px, which will count towards my image storage on G+, but thought the original size, at more than 17,000 px would really be too large.
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Yes I still like it!!
+Becky Humphreys Indeed. 🙂
+Ursula Klepper thanks a lot, Ursula. If you were able to view it big I hope you liked it. It was much too large to show in full, at 17,000 pixels largest dimension.
+Karen Mehmet Why thank you Karen. 😀
+Mari Luukkonen thanks so much Mari. Yes, it's a lovely view, I have tried to get it right so many times…
+Steffan Correll Hi Stephan. Thanks. The dehaze function is at the bottom of the details panel. From memory. Hope this helps.
+Alex Lapidus thanks Alex. Already a year! Doesn't seem possible.
+Sunny Wu Thanks Sunny.
Home! 🙂
Super view
Nicely done Ellie! although I would have to go to look at it on the big screen of the computer, the tablet is too small to see some details.
This is Stunning 💞
Wonderful view! And LR seems to work just great 🙂
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Shared by Hans-Juergen Werner
Looks great. Could be my country. A beautiful view.
I did not find the Dehaze function in LR yet. Where is it hidden +Ellie Kennard?
A lovely photo of a beautiful area, and a great reminder of our wonderful visit! I guess it's exactly the same time of year, so this is just how I remember it.
Gees Ellie it seems so long ago when we walked the dykes and all over the valley ..I wish I had the sony then and not the canon as the pano on the Sony walks all over the canon and anything you can do in Lightroom … Just love this bit of Zeiss glass .
Thanks Len. I think. 😉
great shot
Thank you +Carol Ayala 🙂
Beautiful!
Thanks very much +Sumit Sen
Awesome!
Thanks a lot +Jasbir S. Randhawa – Enjoy your tour of the Valley!
+Ellie Kennard Fabulous, Ellie! 🙂