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2nd March 2009
Picture of the Day - Monday 2nd March 2009
by Ian Burley

Wensleydale scene, by Stephen

Click image to see a larger view in Stephen's gallery.

Today, our featured photographer on the DPNow Picture of the Day is Stephen, one of our most familiar forum members. Stephen is commercial photographer, but he's also a very keen hobby photographer and landscapes are a particular favourite. Being a Yorkshireman, the Dales are conveniently to hand, and this is where the featured photograph today is from, Wensleydale, to be exact. This picture has a wonderful freshness about it. You can almost sense the freshness of the countryside. The combination of cloudscape and intense blue sky are invigorating, as is the hill path composition, with the sheep adding some nice detail.

Stephen explains: "The photograph was taken in Autumn last year in Wensleydale. There is a potential shot virtually round every corner, and after stopping at this location, this was the view over the wall so to speak.

"What attracted me to the scene was the track which led the eye up to the wall on the brow of the hill. I was however puzzled by the way the wall simply ended at the track.

"The relatively low position of the sun in the sky gave a warm glow to the wall and seemed to brighten the grass which contrasted with the sky. I gave a little extra saturation to the sky and darkened the top left corner. Quite a nice little pastoral scene I thought."

I couldn't agree more, Stephen!

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We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had just over 10,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.

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