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Rural Contest
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Please post here some of your rural environment shoots ! Please declare camera body , lens and every other technical details what you think it is important to know.


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Regarding villages vs larger cities, in English we have these two contrasting terms: rural and urban. Rural would provide the suggestion of small-town settings, and urban would provide the suggestion of the big city. Just an idea. That works pretty well, I think, until you come across small communities that are also tourist attractions, such as most of the towns along the West Coast of the US. Many of the communities are quite small, but I wouldn't consider them to be rural. So, the definitions don't universally apply.


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Last edited by Attila on Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:40 pm; edited 1 time in total


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We now have "landscape", "cityscape", and "rural" contests.
While difference between landscape and cityscape should be (if I understand well) that landscape is shot outside of cities, while inside cities and villages it's called "cityscape", the difference between "landscape" and "rural" environments escapes me.


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http://forum.mflenses.com/more-shoots-in-contests-t33249.html

Please read last post from Michael , explanation is there.


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Then maybe it would be a good idea to copy that message here, because I think that many people (at least, the latin-based language people) will understand rural as "countryside" and not as "villages".


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Just a church outside London

Hex 28mm f3.5



Road leading to a village:-

Ensinor 80-200mm



and it's one of my favourite sites for test shots:-

Ensinor 24mm


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Rural village near Nice.
French Riviera. Cool



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At the opposite.
Wimereux on the Channel.
Northern France



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5DmkII, Contax Vario-Sonnar 28-85:



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Orio wrote:
We now have "landscape", "cityscape", and "rural" contests.
While difference between landscape and cityscape should be (if I understand well) that landscape is shot outside of cities, while inside cities and villages it's called "cityscape", the difference between "landscape" and "rural" environments escapes me.


erm The confusion in the world of the English language is because of American English and UK English (International English) Rolling Eyes

Rural in the UK is simply "not in the city" and "cityscape" seems to me to be an Americanism (but maybe not and is just a modern word).


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Y'all's rural ain't nowhere near rural as my rural.

FE2, Nikkor 50/1.8, BW400CN:


FE2, Nikkor 50/1.8, BW400CN:


FED-2, I-26, Ferrania 100:


SP1000, Auto Rikenon 50/2, Arista Premium 400:


FED-2, I-26, Ferrania 100:


Bessa R, Industar 50, BW400CN:


Konica S III, fixed Hexanon 47/1.9, BW400CN:


Konica S III, fixed Hexanon 47/1.9, BW400CN:


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One more, FED-2, I-26, Ferrania 100:



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fish4570 wrote:
Y'all's rural ain't nowhere near rural as my rural.


Konica S III, fixed Hexanon 47/1.9, BW400CN:

I do like that. I was thinking it was a Gin Palace until I noticed the evidence of sheer horsepower with the stubby smokestacks. I take it it's one of those barge haulers?


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Dave, you are correct. Pushers like that can move nine barges full of coal at a whack all the way to Mobile. This part of Alabama has been mined for coal for 150 years.


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Excalibur wrote:
Rural in the UK is simply "not in the city" and "cityscape" seems to me to be an Americanism (but maybe not and is just a modern word).

You also need to remember that the word "city" in the UK is specifically a place which has been granted a Royal Charter and so has a special prestige or status. Usually, towns with cathedrals (the admin centre of a diocese) have city status. There are hundreds of large towns which aren't cities.


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This my "city" but I think rural is the right section Smile

Pentax K-x with 18-55 kit lens
(they look sharper if you click on them)



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Classic Olde Englande


patrickh


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Lovely image, Patrick!

Beautiful ones as well, Peter!


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one more from England ...

I do not know whether this is rural but the land around is -- huge and belongs to this house ... including very very nice horses...

Contax Vario-Sonnar 4/80-200 f/8 (?), EOS 5D MKII, Adobe LightRoom, Adobe Photoshop.




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Very nice, Stan! I love the heather.


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Old town.



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Minolta SRT 101, Rokkor 50/1.2, Ilford Delta, developed in Ilfotec.



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city/metropolis
suburbs/city surrounds
small town/village
rural/farm community
country/foothills
forest
mountains


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x100:



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I don't see rural in many of the shots posted, well, not what I would consider rural, but I am a country boy so my definition of rural probably differs somewhat from those that live in urban areas. For me, if it's rural there has to be the smell of animal excreta in the air and nothing modern or developed in sight! lol

Pile of excrement in a field, Tokina RMC 3.5/17 on NEX-3:



Cows in a field, Hoya HMC 2.8/24 (Tokina SL24) on NEX-3:



Tarn Hows, nr Coniston, Hoya HMC 2.8/24 (Tokina SL24) on NEX-3:



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Pile of excrement in a field very, very good I like it