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Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont, Fall 2007 View Larger Image
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Purchase This Week's Print
Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont, Fall 2007 is available as an 11"x17" Print, matted
to fit an 18"x22" frame. Each print is signed
and numbered by the photographer. Only 100 prints will
be made, so order early to secure your piece.
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Image of the Week Fine Art Print Offer
Each week, I post an image from my recent or historical work and talk a little
bit about it; the process, creative thought, and technical details that
contributed to its creation. During the week an image is featured, I offer it as
a Limited Edition Fine Art Print at a special price. Each image is printed
personally by me on the latest Epson printers using archival pigment inks on
acid-free archival paper. The prints are shipped matted and signed and can be
framed using a standard size, off-the-shelf frame from your local frame shop.
Learn more about my fine art printing process.
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Other Images of the Week
- Chapel of the Transfiguration, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
- Cross-Country Runner Alexandra Krieg, Middlebury, Vermont
- Horse Bath, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont
- Whitney, Citronelle, Alabama
- The North Window from Turret Arch, Arches National Park, Utah
- Jeff, Middlebury College, Vermont
- Hostas II, Middlebury, Vermont
- Hikers in Coyote Gulch I, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
- Ocotillo Shadow, Abandoned Cabin, Anza-Borrego State Park, California
- Moonlit Palms, Anza-Borrego State Park, California
- Park Avenue, Arches National Park, Utah
- Ashton and Whitney, Citronelle, Alabama
- Steven
- Halladay Road III
- Fall colors and ivy-covered wall, Middlebury College, Vermont
- Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont
- Jesse Hamner at Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone NP
- Aon Center from Millenium Park, Chicago
- Mountain Biking I
- Boulders II, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
- Hosta Leaves
- Joe
- The Pour
- Skylar
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Image of the Week
I spend a lot of time thinking about ways to make my photographs say something different,
something new. In the competitive world of photography, you have to make your pictures
stand apart from others to get noticed, or you won't get the jobs. The catch is that
many sacrifice the design of their image -- the layout, the graphic line, the form, the beauty --
on the altar of "pushing the envelope" or challenging the viewer's expectations.
"You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees."
Fred Astaire, as fashion photographer Dick Avery in Funny Face.
But sometimes, you just have to work the cliché.
It's Fall in Vermont, and we're surrounded by trees screaming in orange, yellow, and red. It's the
last gasp of the forest's exuberance until spring, and as two recently relocated Southerners, my wife
and I are soaking it in.
It's hard to be in the midst of such scenery and not be driven to photography, so I've given in
wholeheartedly. This week's image is, yes, a picture of a tree. But with the brash colors and dramatic
angle, it's a little different than your run-of-the-mill tree photo.
We're saturated with pictures of majestic nature scenes; there's a lot of competition in that arena. To
make a living in this racket, you have to "make it new" or you'll go broke. Just don't eschew
the mundane simply because "it's been done to death". You never know when you might stumble
onto something good.
Technical Data
I shot Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont, Fall 2007 with a Nikon D200 and a 17-35mm ƒ/2.8 lens. The exposure was
1/3s at ƒ/22.
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