Ailsa has chosen grasses for this week’s travel theme. I would love to show some close up images of grasses, but alas I don’t have any, nor the chance of creating any soon. However, I have decided to go a bit out on a limb, think outside the box on this one.
There is a garden not too far from me, where the grass is allowed to grow a bit longer in certain areas at this time of the year. The view at one point always makes me think of ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’ (Alain-Fournier’s book) and the liminal, lost places, visions…. I created the image below using a vintage film effect to recreate that sense of wistfulness and longing (but perhaps I should have blurred those figures slightly?):
Through the grasses
WordsVisual 
I like the effect of the figures still clear in the midst of it. It’s beautiful that is for sure. 🙂
Thanks, Sue! Glad you like this, I always stop at that point and gaze…
Works for me Sue!
Thanks, Adrian!p
Looks like a nice spot indeed, and well-captured.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks, Pete!
Love this image, Sue. Well done. 🙂
Thanks, Sylvia….I think it works! 🙂
Ahh…so evocative of summer walks. Love the vintage effect and way it enhances the soft light on the trees and the grass. The people in the background look good as they are I think, as if they have been painted in 🙂
Thanks, Sherri – another experiment which seems to have worked 🙂
🙂
Hello Sue,
I liked the selection of image for the theme 🙂
There is something really interesting in this image with the play of light and shades.
The soft tone in the grass and the faded people in the middle really makes it beautiful 🙂
Many thanks, Sreejith – I’m pleased you liked this 🙂
Works for me too Sue – I love the light and shade.
Thanks, Jude – did you guess where I took this?
Claremont? Do you live close to Esher then Sue?
Claremont it is! I’m about 7 miles from there….
Yes, maybe… but I like it 🙂 When I read the opening I thought I was going to find you crawling through the long grass, Sue 🙂
Hehe….well, it has been known. I have occasionally been less than dignified in the pursuit of a good image!
I’m delighted to hear it 🙂
But are you really surprised??
I like that effect – dreamy. This makes me feel light and summery…
Good! 🙂
Perfect for Le Grand Meaulnes – lovely shot Sue
Thanks, Robin – glad someone picked up on this!
I love this photo. The bright green grass through the dark trees and the dynamic contrast of the red jumper. It would make an interesting painting.
Glad you like it, but alas it won’t be painted by me! Zero skills in that area, but I might try a painterly image with an app or two to see what transpires….. 🙂
Oh do. You will no doubt do something creative and visually appealing.
Thanks for the encouraging words, Suzanne!
I love the image as it is, but I wouldn’t say wistfulness and longing. For me it’s more nostalgia – looking back through the present into a golden past. It reminds me of accounts I’ve read of the last summer before the outbreak of WW1. Which may well be wistfulness and longing!
I’m sure anyone looking back at the last summer before WW1
Would have been experiencing wistfulness and longing for those days of peace….
Wonderful, they are bathed in golden light!
…and isn’t that the way with nostalgia!
wonderful effect Sue!! You succeeded in that golden nostalgia!!
Great, thanks, Cybele!
The light on the grass is perfect and just right for this weeks theme with the grass as the main focus.
Thank you, Pauline! 🙂
This is a beautiful capture of this place. Really draws you in and I like it just the way it is 🙂
Yes, the more I have looked at it, I think it works to create the mood as it is 🙂