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From the category archives:
February
World renowned sculptor Jud Hartmann has studios in Grafton, VT and Blue Hill, ME, and has cast over seventy five bronze sculptures in his Woodland Tribes of the Northeast series. This one is called “Deerfield”; the story and a studio photograph can be found on his website here. Wandering around the gallery – I had the place to myself on a weekday afternoon in February – is like stepping into a time machine and going back three hundred years. It’s well worth a visit.
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The view to the north, while standing near the center of this wonderful little town, population 627. Despite its size, there are two markets, a library, two churches, and the grande dame of the place, the Grafton Inn and Tavern.
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Deep in VT hill towns, where upwards of two feet of snow has fallen in the past two weeks, the signs of Spring don’t seem as prominent as down country. But even residents of this town feel the inexorable pull: “…these piles were twice as high a week ago..”
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There will probably be a few more snowfalls here in western MA, but the sun is getting higher and warmer, and in fact, there is now a four hour window for Vitamin D via sun exposure at this location (10AM-2PM, courtesy of dminder smartphone app). It would be nice to have a small three sided greenhouse for sunbathing this time of the year, to help with the wind; I saw a four sided one recently at Ocean State Job Lot for $40.
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I don’t do much post-processing with my images, as I prefer to get the work done on the front end, and trust my camera’s ability to render a scene.
This shot, though, seemed to call out for significant cropping, as I felt the lawn leading up to the water diluted the drama of the scene. (I didn’t get closer in deference to the property owner.)
Though I wouldn’t consider the image below “much post-processing”, it is a significant crop from the original. I liked the cropped version initially, but now I’m back to the original composition, mostly for its greater sense of space, including that beautiful sky.
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