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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:28 am
by Andy
Hi VtPhoto......glad to see some "new blood" here. Hope you'll join in the discussion? Stick season or not (maybe thats a good time to work on Photoshop stuff :) ), you DO live in Vermont. I live in Saginaw, MI. I have often described it as the flattest, brownest place in the U.S. with its most ubiquitous features: Power Lines!

I agree 100%, though. My first love is and always will be Vermont!

Went to your site. Folks, DO go take a peek. Some great images there (Carol, that church in Waitsfield!).

Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:53 am
by vtphotogf64
abby wrote:Welcome to the forum VTPhotog! I enjoyed looking through your site. You have some gorgeous images.
Yes Andy.......I saw the Waitsfield church! :wink:

VTPhotog: I have seen other photos of the Waitsfield church before (yours is one of if not THE best I have seen by the way) so I went to Waitsfiled in the Fall of 2007 looking for it. I found it.........but I didn't go out into the field to get "The shot" from the proper perspective because I would have had to trample on the crops and I obviously didn't want to do that. Is the winter the only time that that shot is possible or is there another viewpoint that I may have missed? Thanks!

Carol (abby)
Want to apologize for taking so long to reply. It's kind of funny but I ended back to this forum the same way I got here the first time....doing my monthly check of my seach engine listings. I didn't even remember registering so when I tried I couldn't so I went thru the membership list to figure out what my username was. A couple of guesses about my password and I was back in. :lol:

The "shot" your referring too really doesn't have a "proper" perspective. The location, as you mentioned, is popular. I have many times gone back to a location and walked around and more times than not, found other perspectives.

To be honest, this particular shot from the field does include all the visual elements but is really pretty flat compositionwise. If the corn was high when you were there you could have backed off from the northern edge of the cornfield towards the Mad River. Taking a shot from within the cornfield with the camera just above the plants would be cool. You should be able to walk between the rows of corn without trampling them.

I hope you get a chance to come back to the MRV and try that shot again. :D

This past fall we had snow during the peak fall colors. Doesn't happen very often. Here's a shot during the Vermont "Snoliage"

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