Landscape Photo Competition 2013 No 5 : Entry Number 450

I love the movement here and the way you have made this cereal crop dance. The black and white finish is perfect, the composition a real pleasure to admire over and over. Well done.

Many thanks for awarding my photo. My name's Ron Pilcher and this was taken on a windy summers day at Ashbury Hill, Oxfordshire, England. I used a Canon 5D MkII with a Canon16-35mm f/2.8L and the image was converted to B/W using Lightroom 5 with a preset yellow filter added to increase the sky/cloud definition and lighten the barley. I also gave it a bit more of a tweak, by adding a medium-contrast curve and a dollop of Lightroom's Punch! Please check out my Flickr site. It has a lot of macro work, but also other stuff, including landscapes. Thanks again and congratulations to the winner.