Japan from the Driver's Seat
Amber Waves of Grain
Posted by Mike Cash (Kiryu, Japan) on 13 June 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
Another from the Aires Reflex.
The Obvious from Murfreesboro, TN, United States
This is beautiful processing. That's my first impression. Second impression - I don't know if you noticed it or did it on purpose - but there is a somewhat straight line on the right vertical part of the field, and also one (two) on the left side of the town (tree and small building in the back). Any comments about that?
Titus
13 Jun 2007 3:16pm
@The Obvious: Greetings, my Tennessee homeboy! (long dislocated Humboldt native here).
The one on the right could be some sort of broadcast tower. There is a heliport in that general vicinity. Or it and the others may all be overlooked specks of dust from when I scanned the negative.
ColNed Pictures from Amersfoort, Netherlands
I love the work you did on this one !!!
13 Jun 2007 6:57pm
@ColNed Pictures: Thank you very much. That's very kind of you.
@Reza: Thank you. The reason it got processed like that is that the sky looked awful in color and the grain looked awful in black and white. So I decided to mix the parts that looked acceptable.
Rob from United States
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
14 Jun 2007 1:48am
@Rob: Betcha had to Google that.
These amber waves of grain are in Maebashi, Gunma Pref., Japan. We have majestic purple mountains all around here too.
