Images of New England
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This is one of my favorite end-of-winter shots, taken over twenty years ago with a 35mm film camera, and probably EPP film. It’s been a long time coming onto the blog here, even though it’s been in a show or two over the years.
More (film captures) to come, as I revisit and reorganize the archives.
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Gotta love this “farm truck” – a 1969 Chevy C20, 350 V8 – waiting for the season to turn.
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Howard and his wife Lisa are the co-owners of High Meadows Farm, the oldest certified organic farm in VT. They have been farming this land (and using the front porch, see below) since purchasing the property in 1979. This photo was taken in the farmhouse kitchen, a large open room with a big old cast iron Jotul wood stove keeping things warm.
He’s a pretty amusing and articulate guy, and the subject of a great interview by Chris Blanchard in a recent “Farmer to Farmer Podcast” here. See also my PUBLICATIONS page (tab above) and the article on the Brattleboro Area Farmer’s Market.
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Deep in VT hill towns, where upwards of two feet of snow has fallen in the past two weeks, the signs of Spring don’t seem as prominent as down country. But even residents of this town feel the inexorable pull: “…these piles were twice as high a week ago..”
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There will probably be a few more snowfalls here in western MA, but the sun is getting higher and warmer, and in fact, there is now a four hour window for Vitamin D via sun exposure at this location (10AM-2PM, courtesy of dminder smartphone app). It would be nice to have a small three sided greenhouse for sunbathing this time of the year, to help with the wind; I saw a four sided one recently at Ocean State Job Lot for $40.
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I don’t do much post-processing with my images, as I prefer to get the work done on the front end, and trust my camera’s ability to render a scene.
This shot, though, seemed to call out for significant cropping, as I felt the lawn leading up to the water diluted the drama of the scene. (I didn’t get closer in deference to the property owner.)
Though I wouldn’t consider the image below “much post-processing”, it is a significant crop from the original. I liked the cropped version initially, but now I’m back to the original composition, mostly for its greater sense of space, including that beautiful sky.
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