14 Dec 12.   An area I've yet to shoot, and one I really want too, is the Palouse area of WA/ID states. Earlier this week I received a beautiful Christmas card featuring a photo of the Palouse - thanks Kathy - and it made me want to share images I don't have. So I created something vaguely similar by taking a photo of the haying earlier this year on my cousin's farm, getting it just the way I wanted it compositionally, then duped that and brought it into a filter to create a soft effect plus, and of equal importance, to bring out some detail in the farm building. The over all affect is that of a soft painting, and its style may remind some of you of a particular painter. I did one thing different from what the old painters would have done and made the man and the tractor photographically sharp, which should bring your eye to that point rather quickly. The result is a painting like image with a definite center of interest. Not quite the Palouse by any stretch of the imagination, but at least something pastoral.  Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/640 sec @ f / 5.6.