Waiting for Work

[Bob_Faucher]

Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction

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Questions to guide your feedback

Feel like a cowboy, ready go on a cattle drive?

Other Information

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Image Description

A mid-sized holding corral, complete with a smaller, attached corral with loading chute, stands on a small section of a vast ranch in Montana. It will not see use again until the separated and prepared cattle are ready to transport.

Technical Details

Canon EOS 5D II; Canon EF 16-35mm @ 25mm; f/10 @ 1/40 sec, ISO 100; Gitzo tripod, RRS BH 55, remote trigger

Specific Feedback

Whatever you think, positive or otherwise.

[Dennis_Plank]

A nice composition, Bob. I’ve seen lots of setups like this scattered around the west and just a few in use.

[Bob_Faucher]

Thank you @Dennis_Plank for your remarks. These facilities are only in use when the steer are separated, prepared and readying for shipping. The rest of the year they are abandoned.

[holgermischke]

I like panoramas and I like this one for its simplicity and the atmosphere of emptiness and maybe loneliness. Somehow the clear sky fits, but I wish you’d come back on a day when a thunderstorm just passed over this. and left some magnificent clouds over this scene. But don’t get me wrong - it is great for what it is. Thanks for sharing.

[Bob_Faucher]

Thank you @holgermischke for your positive remarks. Yes, some clouds would be a welcome addition, but not on this particular day. I do not live anywhere near this spot so I was compelled to deal with the conditions as presented.