Lone Shepherd

Light is soft when sun lives beyond clouds. A magic moment inside a natural soft light box.
Single file HDR tonemapped in Photomatix, details enhacer. I cropped the lower side of picture trying to follow rule of thirds. In my pictures peoples and animals are often (always) missing. Shepherd, herd and sheepdog suddenly appeared in the compo while I was setting camera on tripod just to take a normal landscape picture (without disturbing elements). The shepherd asked for a few questions to me ( where are you from…why do you take pics) and I replied using polite words. Then he went away telling me “go home….go to work”…Silence from my mouth!
I like colours of this picture….soft, subtle….and an embedding magical mood that well describes sudden changing of atmosphere of this praire. PENTAX K 20 D and PENTAX Zoom 12-24 at 24mm. Program Mode.
I have edited a monochrome version but I don’t like it. I have to edit it in a more appealing appearance.