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William Ogilvie


William Ogilvie
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Copyright: Peter Traynor (chefcop) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 781 W: 48 N: 491] (4638)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-25
Camera: Canon Powershot G7
Exposure: f/4, 1/800 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-09-25 10:46
Viewed: 892
Points: 14
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Out for a run today, between two tiny villages in the Scottish Borders, a single track road between Ashkirk and Roberton.

Beautiful scene with a cairn erected to the famous poet William Ogilvie

William Henry Ogilvie (1869–1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman. He was born near Kelso, Borders, Scotland and arrived in Australia in 1889.

Ogilvie had a deep love of horses and riding and he naturally became interested in the outback. Before long he became an expert station hand, drover and horse breaker, working on such stations as Belalie on the Warrego, and Maoupe in South Australia. He was described as a quiet-spoken Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion. He wrote lyrical and romantic poetry noted for its balladic style, with expressive descriptions of outback life and characters. Will, as he was known, also wrote a great deal of work on English and Scottish themes and his work has been included in collections of English and Scottish poetry. All of his work was originally published in and he is most closely associated with Australia.

His love of the outback, dogs and horses is well-reflected in his work (My Life in the Open, Kelpies, The Australian). A collection of Will Ogilvie's poetry was published in (Saddle for a Throne 1952 ISBN 0-9599299-4-0) and was "Dedicated to Comrades of Camp-fire and Muster"; the book contains a foreword by R. M. Williams, who met him in the late 1940's and who was instrumental in publishing the works.

A formal portrait of Ogilvie posing with his Miniature Fox Terrier hangs in the National Library of Australia in Canberra

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Ogilvie
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  • tyro Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 220 W: 79 N: 828] (3929)
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Hello, Peter.

What a wonderful note - I like interesting and informative notes like these - they really add to a photograph.

But the photograph is excellent too - what a fabulous sky (we seem to be getting some good skies these days what with the changeable weather), lovely faithful grass colours and great sharpness. And those peaceful sheep add to the whole scene.

Excellent!

Kind Regards,

John.

P.S. When you say you were out for a "run", do you mean a "run" or a "drive"? :o)

looks just the same as the day i was there when they unveiled it, cold bright and sunny !! nice capture. Back to the Canon ????

Rob

Hello Peter,

Excllent colors Bg POV DOF excllent colors Bg POV well done and clean photo

TFS Kyle

Hi Peter,
What a wonderful combination of Scotisch landscape and history. You really had some wonderful light to work with, it gave you such great colors in both landscape and sky. Is also higlighted the cairn perfectly.
TFS,
Niek

Hi Peter, a lovely photo and a very interesting note. With the usual 20:20 hindsight the photo might bave been even better by moving your POV slightly to the right. Then the shadow of the cairn would not have been visible, it is slightly distracting in the photo.
Best regards,
Les

Hi Peter, good DOF and great saturated colours. Just a wee suggestion, if you get down a bit lower then the top of the cairn intersects with the skyline, jutting into the blue. At the current POV I find it gets a bit lost. Otherwise, great composition. Lovely detail in the clouds. Karen

great colours and formation of clouds. nice composition and POV

tfs!

Just spotted this in your random photos Peter. Wonderful clarity of light away from the city pollution. What a lucky guy you are to have this scenery to run through. Excellent sharpness, composition and exposure.

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