Image of the Week: Old Stone Row in Winter, Middlebury, Vermont

The most striking thing about this scene is the one thing this photo can't convey.

The quiet.

It's an arresting stillness that assaults your senses, simply because they are so used to the constant onslaught of sound: cars, cellphones, televisions, barking dogs. Drop a blanket of snow on your environment -- like this one on the morning of December 28, 2009 -- and it all goes away. The snow soaks it up, and your ears and left grasping at straws. There's nothing to hear, except maybe the wind or the soft crunching of your shoes in the fresh powder.

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Technical Data

I photographed Old Stone Row in Winter, Middlebury, Vermont with a Nikon D300 camera and 17-35mm ƒ/2.8 Nikkor lens. The exposure was 1/13 second at ƒ/11. Several images were captured vertically and then digitally merged together to produce a high-resolution image.

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