13 November 2019

Judgement

You may remember that one of my photographs was the Week 43 Picture of the Week winner over at the geograph website. My reward was to pick the Week 44 winner from a shortlist of fifty images that were pre-selected from 3814 eligible submissions to the site.

At the top you can see the image that I put in third place. It was taken from the coastal town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. The unusual vessel was specially designed to play a lead role in the construction of off-shore wind farms.

In second place I chose the following picture of a cock pheasant taken by an acquaintance of mine - Walter Baxter - who has snapped many wonderful photographs in The Scottish Borders:-
But the picture I chose as the overall winner was this lovely image of a woodland path near the village of Evanton in the Scottish Highland region. I admired the colours in this photograph and the fact that the path is on a ridge. You wonder where that path might be leading. 

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  1. The winner you chose is wonderful !

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    1. Thanks Helen. I wonder if it would have been improved with two tiny figures on the path - perhaps dressed in red and blue?

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    2. On our recent trip to New York City tony posed quite a few photos with me and my green umbrella about midfield ( from behind ! I think he prefers that view these days !!)

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    3. Bad boy Tony! Smack! Smack!

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  2. I love the picture you chose as the winner. It makes me want to go there.

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    1. I could imagine that picture as a large mural at a hotel reception.

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  3. It's a tough job to judge anything. You did a great job.

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  4. It must be hard to judge especially with such a variety of subjects. How does one compare man-made objects with nature scenes? All three of these are interesting but the bird is the one that strikes me at the moment. Winning the right to judge is a cool reward.

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    1. I don't find it too hard. The "best" images sing to me straight away. It's about feeling, not logic.

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  5. It is a path I wouldn't be able to resist walking if I were nearby! The way the light plays between the trees and it being on a ridge give it special appeal. From the species of trees, it could just as well be in the Black Forest not far from O.K.'s home.

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    1. At the end of the path I can just see O.K. and Meike approaching. They are singing "The Happy Wanderer"

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  6. I love the colours of the pheasant.

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  7. Getting to choose a winner must have been difficult.
    I like your choices

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  8. Looks like an always dry path - disused railway?

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    1. I don't know Tasker. The photographer refers to that ridge as an "esker" - a term I had not encountered before.

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    2. Ah! I remember them being mentioned in Geography, and Wikipedia reminds me: ridges of fluvio-glacial material "somewhat like railway embankments"

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  9. I agree with your choice of winner. We have a park here called 'Stanmer Park' where there are some beautiful walks through the Beech trees similar to your photo.
    Talking of wind farms, our newly built one out to sea on our horizon is at present not working due to a fault that will take a month to repair. Good job we are not relying entirely on these.
    Briony
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    1. Good heavens! A month to fix it? What a joke and how very weird to have wind turbines in the world's busiest shipping channel!

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  10. I like your choice of winner but if I were to add two small figures they would wear cream or green and red.

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    1. I think I would prefer a colour contrast or black silhouettes.

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  11. Lovely choice. Being such an avid walker, I can see how it spoke to you. Easy to imagine you strolling along that path.

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    1. I hope you can't imagine me tripping up Mary!

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  12. I like all three of them -- the impact of the third one, for me, comes from the trees being yellow on one side of the path and green on the other. I would have been hard pressed to choose a single winner. That pheasant photo is remarkable -- crystal-clear and pin-sharp!

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    1. Thanks for your expert reflections Steve. You are right about the shift in colours from one side of the path to the other.

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  13. You're right- that third one IS a winner. Wow. Stunning!

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  14. I love the last photo. I'm a fan of trees:)

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    1. In one way that picture is so ordinary but at the same time extraordinary.

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  15. I love a photograph or a painting that calls you in, so to speak. I would happily wander up the woodland path.
    It reminds me of a local beauty spot, Roddlesworth. Good choice!

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  16. I'm not a big fan of the first one (and I certainly don't like wind farms!). That close-up of the pheasant is amazing. The woodland path looks like it is being protected by the trees -a safe haven to walk in. I can see why you chose that one.

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  17. I love the one you chose, little brother. I would call it, "Going Home".

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    1. It feels that way doesn't it sis? Don't follow the yellow brick road...follow the path through the woods.

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  18. Good heavens! I think I know that path. It looks very like one in the woods behind a friend's house which is a community wood owned by the adjacent residents. I've walked through it many times. I'd love to know if that's correct.

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    1. I suspect it is the one you know Graham! What a co-incidence! Go here to check:-
      https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6311837

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    2. It is indeed, Neil. It's just behind my friend's house and a path I walk along frequently.

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