Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont, Fall 2007   View Larger Image

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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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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.

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.