Image of the Week: Halladay Road III, Middlebury, Vermont

I used to keep a mental checklist of interesting locations I'd come across while driving. I had to abandon it in favor of a physical notebook once the mental one grew too large and locations started falling through the cracks. These bookmarked locations are places that possess dynamic interplays of line and form, but simply lacked the dramatic light I wanted to make the scene come alive. The notebook helps me to remember to return to these places when the light is right.

This scene, however, didn't need a notebook entry.

It's just down the road from my house on Halladay Road in Middlebury, Vermont, and I pass by it almost everyday, both in the car and on foot. I've noticed the graphic arrangement of the tree and weathered barn before, but never have I seen the light strike suck a dramatic note as it did last week during the first snowstorm of the season.

I quickly pulled the car over, setup the view camera, and exposed a couple of sheets of the scene, overexposing a bit and pulling back on development to hold detail in the high range of shadows and highlights.

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Technical Data

Halladay Road III, Middlebury, Vermont was shot with a Tachihara 4x5 Field Camera and a Schneider 210mm ƒ/5.6 Symmar-S lens on Kodak TMAX 100 Professional Film. The exposure was 1/8 sec at ƒ/32.

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