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Maple Sugar WC506 Repost

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted October 17, 2011117 views7 comments

Took this yesterday doing a family photo shoot of a friend of mine. His grandmother owns hundreds of acres way back in the hills of West Virginia. Driving back there you felt like you were part of the movie (Wrong Turn). Great people though!

The building (one of several)is left from the old days when they ran lines from maple trees from off the mountain side. They processed the sap until they got maple sugar.

They let me take what ever additional photos of what I wanted and to use as I wish. Great area!

Canon 7D, ef70-200 L IS II @ 70mm, F8, AP, iso100, 1/80sec, hand held. Cropped out about 30% of image.
The only problem I had was getting enough resoulution to post on here. This is the first time I had to cut it down to 48% for the 720 and 68% for the 1200...O'well.

C&C welcome

Dave

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on October 17, 2011 at 6:27 PM

The colors are nice and the scene I like. I think I might crop off some from the bottom and it seems a bit bright to me. That could be my monitor though.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on October 17, 2011 at 6:47 PM

Beautiful fall color. I like the inclusion of the sugar shack. Gives the image a story to tell.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 17, 2011 at 7:09 PM

Really nice collection of greens and colors in the trees. I also like how the building establishes perspective. The foreground is a a bit "weedy" so I would suggest cropping at the bottom of the fence.

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Comment posted by David E Lester on October 17, 2011 at 7:23 PM

Repost, thanks for the advice.

Dave

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on October 20, 2011 at 11:55 AM

Beautiful colors, and beautiful land! Looks like a grand place to tramp through the fields and woods.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on October 22, 2011 at 9:17 AM

Like the colors you caught. Nice story and photo. TFS

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Comment posted by Varina Patel on October 24, 2011 at 11:25 AM

Wow! What a place! The little sugar shack is a perfect point of interest in such a beautiful scene. All that color is gorgeous.

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