Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly

[Clicker]

Spent a day on the Cotswold Escarpment just a quarter a mile from Hidcote Manor above Chipping Camden, visiting the Lavender Fields set out in their uniform rows with numerous varieties of varying shades of purple  pink and violet and then went to a fabulous garden called Kiftsgate Court. . I wish I could capture the perfume of the lavender that hung in the air as you walked through the grassy pathways  mown between rows of lavender plants on the farm . They will be harvested soon so there is just a brief time to visit and experience  this .. 

 

[Black Pearl]

Its Monday morning, a bit dull, I'm tired and I'm heading out to work - but - you've just brightened my day with this beautiful image.

 

Thank you.

[Korky]

It's Monday morning here, too. It's quite pleasant out and I've forgotten what it's like to head off to work, but I agree that this is a lovely image.

Double thank you!

Korky 

[Phil]

This is all very odd, it's also Monday morning here 

I agree that it is a lovely image, but feel it just needs a little punch of vibrance. But that could be me, I never know when to stop.

[Phil]

An individual's perception of how an image should look will always differ from everyone else. Obviously I wasn't there, but this is somewhere near how the scene would look in my (often over cooked) mind.

Hope you don't mind.

[Clicker]

Thanks you two..... I know what you mean Phil ...  Holding back on colour vibrancy is definitely a discipline  that isn't easy to control. It was a really flat day but the tones in that field were mostly from hidcote and munstead varieties and are really muted... However ...... I love the effect you gleaned ..by having the courage to turn up the dial ... If I'd have done it I'd be beating myself up now for  going too far!!!!   Do I mind..... ? .... I love it when a photo engages someone else enough to want to do something themselves with it ...thanks for taking the time  I shall have another play with the colours ... By the way ... I clone out about a  dozen Japanese tourists ..all with selfie sticks,clicking away . 

[Clicker]

Somehow I managed to miss your comments BP and Korky ! Doh sorry ... 

What a nice thing to say BP ...it's Monday here too and your comment started my day with a smile .....  And it looks like the blue hues have had the opposite effects on the laird of lancashire's demeanour too . Thank you both for your kind words... It was a picture ... As I said ...I dispatched the interlopers with a soft 30 pixel brush!!

[ChrisLumix]

Strangely, it's Monday evening here. As for the difference between Polly's original and Phil's bakery ... the truth is somewhere between perhaps.

[Clicker]

The trouble is knowing when to stop Chris .....another edit ... ...and  as you suggested ...maybe inbetween ?

The larger version looks less dull ....

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[ChrisLumix]

Yes, I do like that edit. Just the right balance twixt sky and earth.

[kev7d]

What a lovely scene. Nice one.  

[Clicker]

Thanks Kev... I went back 10 days later,  last Saturday, with daughter in law and most of the lavender in this photo had been harvested. They do keep a display field of various  colours of lavender,  while the rest of the crop is  being harvested , for tourists to see but it's such a short three week window  to see it at it's very best. I think I got the timing just right to get  this image .