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CT, I saw that website and that is some very interesting reading. I would love to be able to spend more time in Vermont and get to volunteer with some of these groups doing such good work to preserve Vermont. I looked at some additional photos of the walkway around the store (that seems to be the be...

CT, Do you know if the viewing areas for Hogsback Mountain are only open when the store is open or are they accessible at all times? Also, have you, or anyone else, ever done the hike to The Great Cliff (Brandon Gap on the LT)? It looks like it might be a good vantage point for some morning photos. ...

For Photos 1) Old First Church in Bennington - it is the way I know I am "home". The burial grounds are beautiful and the building itself is New England perfection. Jaunt over to the battle monument just across the road a ways. 2) West River (from the old railroad bed to the Scott Bridge) - an old r...

Andy, Thanks. I think Vermont is so exceptional in the locals willingness to share their land if you are respectful of their needs and courteous to them as people. My favorite fishing spot is near Arlington. The people whose land borders on the Battenkill have mowed a path to the river for easier ac...

All, There is a distant possibility that I can make it up for the fall get together. Could you give me the days that you are planning to get together to shoot photos (day and night, you crazies!)? Also, an idea of where you will be based for the days in question would be awesome for logistics! Still...

Andy, Thanks! On people, my understanding was that people in the background and in a public place, no need for a release but, if they are the subject of the photo (and the photo is for artistic and not journalistic purposes) you need to contact them for a release. Honestly, as a landscape guy, peopl...

In a conversation about the Fall Get Together, I posted this map of some of my SoVT favorites: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/The+Old+First+Church/Bennington+Battle+Monument/Chiselville+Covered+Bridge/Covered+Bridge+Rd,+Arlington,+VT+05250/Skyline+Dr,+Sandgate,+VT+05250/Dorset+Quarry/Emerald+Lake+S...

CT, Thank you and will do. I will, most likely, stay in my usual stomping grounds in Stratton/Manchester and venture to whatever point on the compass offers me the best options given the capriciousness of Mother Nature's calendar. Assuming that Manchester has color, I am definitely planning on visit...

That sounds great. Thank you for sharing this. My wife broached the subject of a second home in Vermont recently. When I see things like this, it makes me wish that it could be the primary residence. I grew up in a rural area and always have kept an idealized memory of small town America. I think Ve...

All, I have had my website up for a bit and I get orders from time to time. I don't charge anything above the printing costs but, it is still a financial transaction. Which has me thinking: When do I need a release? Many of us shoot pictures with buildings in them. Do you contact the owner? Do you a...

To follow-up on Andy's mention of the Townsend/Newfane area, the Scott Bridge over the West River is a nice stop. It is to the right if you are coming from the Manchester/Stratton/Jamaica direction and on the left if coming from Brattleboro. There is a little parking area right by the bridge but, yo...

Loved the photos! AS soon as I saw my copy had arrived I started flying through it, looking for your shots. As I expected, they were great!

Congrats and so well deserved!

Great shots! Love that second one.

Al, The comparison to fighting in a "burning building" is apt. People forget that military weapons today use "smokeless powder". The guns of that era used a far less efficiently burning form of gun powder. Also, the cartridges were (for the most part) made of paper, which also would have created smo...

CT, Did you happen to see any signs for how much farther Stratton Pond was from the fire tower? If I go up this year, I am thinking about a Lye Falls, fire tower, Stratton Pond hike (in whatever order makes sense) but, I want to be at either the pond or the tower before sun rise so that I can get so...