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Lower Slaughter B&W
The village of Lower Slaughter is probably one of the most attractive in the Cotswolds. It is often missed by the tourists visiting the more famous Bourton-on-the-Water, which is only a mile away.
The name Slaughter has no connection with blood or butchery but it originates from the words 'Slough' the Old English name for a wet land and 'Slohtre' Old English meaning a muddy place.
If you can imagine this place before it was paved where I'm standing is the entrance to the ford crossing the river Eye. The land would have been very marshy here and it would have become very muddy due to the passage of carts or perhaps even livestock
This is my first attempt at HDR processing and as such it should probably have turned out to be a very bright, vivid and really crude image (it's so much fun and you can't help going over the top with it). But with this image it just didn't look right with the bright colours.
The timeless ambiance of this beautiful village demanded something far more subtle; in the end it was between this one and one with very subtle washed out colours. It was a very close call but in the end black and white won the day.
Lower Slaughter B&W
The village of Lower Slaughter is probably one of the most attractive in the Cotswolds. It is often missed by the tourists visiting the more famous Bourton-on-the-Water, which is only a mile away.
The name Slaughter has no connection with blood or butchery but it originates from the words 'Slough' the Old English name for a wet land and 'Slohtre' Old English meaning a muddy place.
If you can imagine this place before it was paved where I'm standing is the entrance to the ford crossing the river Eye. The land would have been very marshy here and it would have become very muddy due to the passage of carts or perhaps even livestock
This is my first attempt at HDR processing and as such it should probably have turned out to be a very bright, vivid and really crude image (it's so much fun and you can't help going over the top with it). But with this image it just didn't look right with the bright colours.
The timeless ambiance of this beautiful village demanded something far more subtle; in the end it was between this one and one with very subtle washed out colours. It was a very close call but in the end black and white won the day.