landscape with cows
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It is quite simply a landscape with cows.
One of the flattest landscapes in this weird little planet we live on. A landscape constructed from silt and sand, rescued from the sea to provide food for cows to make milk that is set on the table, to be consumed with a slice of bread and a scraping of cheese or a sliver of ham, at every lunchtime across the Netherlands.
A landscape that can be infuriatingly difficult to capture with the best camera equipment money can buy. Unless you have an elevated position. For without some elevation all you will see is a thin strip of green and some cattle. Which — as we all know — would pass as a landscape with cows. There is no regulation in the whole of the European Union, even the whole wide world, that would disallow it from being a landscape with cows.
But….
But without rising above it you’ll have no real inking of the breadth of that pool of water. You’ll have no proper sense of those ditches and dykes – those polders that are so peculiar to and so defining of this low country, this nether-land.
You will see the wind turbines — I’ll allow that — but I’ll bet you wouldn’t notice the sails of the boats drifting along. And though you may have a feel for the milky morning light, you’d never see it reflected in the waterlogged field.
Without elevation this is simply a landscape with cows. From above, as it is shot here, this landscape becomes a picture that gives us a glimpse of the whole story.
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