Palouse Barn, Fields+Rep2

Wonderful rich color, and I really like you framed the primary colored layers with just a bit of the distant hills. And the lighting is excellent.

Great light !   Love the layers,  soft colours, and tracks in the fields.
It might be an optical illusion, but it seems from here the barn needs a bit of CCW rotation. 
Lovely image - 

Sandy

Nice colors, Mary. I think I would do a horizontal with this, just the reds and the greens.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I amp posting a horizontal crop, but there were telephone lines and a lot of tracks leading out of the frame on the right side, so that's one reason I went vertical initially.  I think I fixed the rotation.  I went about -.26 CCW, but it is still playing tricks on me.  I don't think I squared up to the field directly, so there is a combination of diagonal hills, leaning barn, and shooting along as well as across the field.

Let me know if you like the horizontal orientation better. For me, it loses something in not capturing the tops of the red hill.
ML

Going back to your original. If you want to keep the far earth layer I would intensify it's colors by saturating the reds, oranges, and yellows. 

This image took on a different life for me after I saw it in the larger version. 

Thanks, Igor.  I've been experimenting with letting the haze of distance remain in photos to give that sense of depth.  I'm not sure whether it works or not, and since I'm wading back into color, all of this feels very novel to me again.

Thanks for the EP!  I didn't expect that.  I totally appreciate the nod!  Muchas gracias everybody.
ML

Marylynne: I like both comps very much with a slight nod to the original. I like the extra element of the sky and like the amount you included. It would be interesting to play around with dehaze on the BG. Not sure it would be better but certainly a different look. I lived in Spokane in the early eighties and went through the Palouse on trips to Oregon. That was in my pre-photography days and I rue the missed opportunities. Thanks for bringing back some fond memories.>=))>

Hi Folks,
I played around with the background in this one to make it less hazy.  I've been experimenting with letting haze happen to add depth, but I think, in retrospect, this one went to far with keeping the haze.  Here is a very with the background hills dehazed, clarified, and several other things LR offers for changing the atmospherics of light.

Let me know if this is an improvement.
ML