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Countryside Living
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Copyright: Donna Rasmussen (captainsgirl) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 961 W: 54 N: 1491] (6897)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-06-23
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Canon REBEL XTi, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/400 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): My Favorite Photos [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-07-05 22:36
Viewed: 571
Points: 42
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I had the pleasure of spending a week in this spot in Vermont the last time I was there. Couldn't help but take a few phots too. Nestled in the green mountains, typical there to see Red Barns and sugar houses like up there on the hill.

A further note: The "house" up on the hill is just as I call it, a sugar house. Not a home a person would live in but a house of sorts where the sweet nectar from Vermonts sugar maple trees is turned into Mayple Syrup. It takes some 40 gallons of the trees sap to make one gallon of mayple syrup. In the yearly spring when the nights are still freezing and the days are warm , the trees are tapped with a hollow spiket and lines now days, the sap is gathered and long days and nights the farmer will sit and keep the fires going under the sap while it boils and turns to syrup. Its alot of work and well worth it to me as I love Mayple Syrup. These days a gallon runs around 35.00 to 40.00. People use it for pancakes but I also love to cook with it , much better for you than refined sugar and its pretty good straight from the bottle too...:o)

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Hello Donna,

Nice photo and POV. Good details. Home at far is really adding up. Just thinking, how it would had been if right side home was in right top corner? Means, taking picture from more right side...anyway, beautiful shot.

-Mihir.

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  • linus Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1468 W: 10 N: 734] (10694)
  • [2007-07-05 22:45]

Hi Donna,
NIce rural scene. I would have cropped this a bit from the left. Great colours.
Sunil

Great colors and framing. It looks a bit hazy, I am unsure why. Picture might look interesting in BW also.
TFS!
Leanne

Hi Donna,
wonderful place vith ecellent colours, POV and contrast.Well captured.TFS.
Cheers!

hAyAti

Hi Donna! I like how you framed the elements. You can use sharpening and a bit of saturation, IMHO.
TFS,
Freddie :)

Hello Donna,
The red barn is very eye-catching, so is also your bold framing!
Well composed presentation, telling a bit of the story of rural Vermont...
Greetings,
Pablo -

:-) OK-

Hi Donna
Excellent!
Great compo, colours and lights
Well done
Regards
Alina

hi, donna
so fine these places, look like here. but so seldom seen - the city wouldn't let me go more often. peaceful, colored moments. thanks, I'll take a glance once in a while.
wish you all the best,
cal

Beautiful light and softness in this one. Good framing. Nice work.
Best wishes,
Achim

You spent a week there???? How boring, no TV, no asphalt, no traffic, no loud neighbor and so on... Just awful.
You know I'm joking, right :-).
What a wonderful shot. Good sharpness and details and good composition.
TFS
Pierre

Nice one and good note on the making of the Maple Nectar.

Bonjour Donna,
I unfortunately missed the opening of the season of the huts sugar maple, at the time of our voyage two weeks in Quebec in 2004, a regret but it's nothing compared to the unforgettable memories which one has all the same unforgettable at that time.
I like much this rural scene with the timeless colors which you photographed. That you have a foreground as interesting as the house raised in background.
Thanks to plunge us like that in the truth life of the United States in opposition to the large American megalopoles.
Heartily, Corinne.

Hi Donna, so you take the occasional swig out of the syrup bottle...better than the brandy I guess :). Postcard perfect, well composed lovely colours and fine detail. TFS,
David

Many thanks for your comment on ‘Foggy Days IV’

Hello Donna,

Great photo from a great place well composed and captured photo excellent details very crisp I really like this POV alot well done and TFS Kyle
PT

Good compo and strong colors. Nice eye-lead up to the sugar shack on the edge of the woods.
I just love maple syrup!
Cheers
Otto

Anjhello Scoring System:
DOF - 3 POV - 3 CREATIVITY - 3 COMPOSITION - 3
LIGHTING - 3 SHARPNESS - 2 COLORS - 2

Average: 2.71

Range:
1 point: Average < 1.99
2 points: Average > 2.00

Scoring System:
1 Good 2 Better 3 Best

tfs!

Excellent compo and POV, I like the combination of red and green, the small cottage on the BG and the grey sky over the fir trees. Very nice.

TFS,

Andreea

Hi!
Nice picture with good depth and great contarst between fg and bg...Thanks for sharing,
Jonas

Hi Donna,
This looks so much like Scandinavia to me - amazing - must also be the red colour of the Red Barn.
Thanks for the maple syrup story - tasted it, but like to know the background info.
A lovely picture against that threatening sky,
TFS
Els
:)follow

Hello Donna,
Interesting graphical effect you put in this bucolic scenery... Some simple lines, curves and colours make for a strong composition, showing us the quintessence of the countryside. A photo with the qualities of a painting.
TFS & kind regards,
Erik

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  • dareco Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1711 W: 16 N: 838] (15090)
  • [2008-04-20 0:38]

A beautiful picture. I like the pov. An interesting note as well. Very nice color and perfect sharpness. TFS

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