Taken about an hour after sunrise 2 weeks ago in a prairie/savanna restoration area in Central Illinois. Nikon N70 24-120 Nikon zoom. Kodak EC200 125/f11. Circular polorization filter set at maximum.

-- Tim Lindenbaum (farmert@elpaso.net), February 19, 2000

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I like the lighting but the first thing that caught my eye was the pronounced "tilt-to-the-left" of everything in the photo...especially the horizon. Even if this reflects reality, the end result looks like the camera was tilted left.

-- Jeff Kelley (thockerz@pacbell.net), February 19, 2000.

Glorious frost cover on ground vegetation and on that wonderful foreground tree. Agree that the tilt needs correction, real or not. The polarizer seems to have rendered the sky a bit too dark in the ULHC. Still, an impressive shot!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), February 19, 2000.

This is a really impressive shot. I like the depth of field from the nearby grasses to infinity. As for the polarizer, I did some experiments years ago and found that with a 35 mm lens aimed 90 degrees off the sun there was a middle black-blue area and the edges were much lighter. Any wider angle lens, which I suspect this, is not going to produce a uniform color of the sky. From the shadows, it looks like the 90 degree angle from the sun is near the left edge of the photo where the sky is darkest. Still I like the gradient effect.

-- Carroll Hughes (hughescck@citcom.net), February 19, 2000.

I find that all the tilts and leans are balanced. Most of the grass in front and trees in the backgroung are leaning to the right while the tree in the foreground leans to the left into the dark part of the sky. The only things that bother me are the tree seems to lean back too, it looks unreal (???) and the sky is just a bit too dark but maybe the original is better. This is a rare case where uneven polarisation actually works.

-- Erick Lamontagne (meteo.ygp@globetrotter.net), February 25, 2000.