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than just the features of the cow - it shows it in its natural environment. As a composition it works well - the back of the cow immitates - but not too obviously - the line of the mountains behind. The image has good depth and an interesting dynamic thrust with the line of mountains driving to the right, being countered by the drive along the cow to the lower foreground. This keeps the eye interested. The placidity of the scene is enhanced by the way in which the cow is nestled within the mountain background, and it is a scene that one could look keep looking at. I am not sure about the sky - there is a lot of it but I think it works.
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I employed a very brief, generic statement since I saw this as an image which will easily gain the support required to be featured, and therefore I didn't see the need to go in-depth with it. However, since the wording of my support has been attacked (for lack of a better word) below, I will expand
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the encyclopedic value of this image is high. It is the only illustration of this breed of cow, having been introduced into the home article where there was no prior illustration. It has stood the test of time having been in the articles without objection for a reasonable time. It illustrates more
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I didn't mean synthetic, I just meant that it seemed very staged. The lighting is very good, for photographic effect, but the artistic composition distracts, and being that the subject is not completely seen it means that there is less enc.
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