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Shedding Light returns on 12-11-10! FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY!
What an auspicious date to relight the shed! If you missed it last year or wish to see it illuminated again please come by.
I took these photos while driving through Hadley early Saturday morning (Feb.27th). The snow had been falling all night, the roads had just been cleared, and there was no one outside, apart from an occasional snow plower here and there.The blur in a couple of the images (and those I must admit are my favorites) is from me actually *driving* while taking them. I'm glad I didn't run into any cops! They were probably all still at Dunkin Donuts! If I ever move away from this place, I will miss its tobacco barns, open fields and snow!
A small technical detail: I use Nikon D80 with Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 18-135mm lens (I love if for its versatility, although a VR (vibration reduction) feature would be beautiful to have!), and sometimes also a Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 D lens. (which I love for the crispness and lightness of the images it produces, and for its speed.. not to mention its light weight! :-)
A few days before Christmas my friend Erika Zekos invited me to come along for a plane ride to fly over and take photographs of her illuminated barn project in North Amherst. I jumped at the opportunity, it sounded like the kind of adventure I love! Flying in a tiny 4-seat Piper Warrior plane at night, two days shy of winter solstice, with freezing temperatures and harsh winds toying with the elasticity of our comfort zone boundaries, I was taking photographs, sticking my camera out of the tiny window, praying that I don't drop it out into the snowy fields under, or worse even, onto somebody's head! I hang on to it tight. Our plane careened 60 degrees to one side to get us a better view. Amusingly, I didn't realize what was happening until our pilot, John Smith, demonstrated the trick to us later, after landing - I was so absorbed in trying to get a focused picture (it proved to be a real challenge!)
What a beautiful vision it was, like some mysterious night bride, lost in the vast dark of the winter night.. An unforgettable way to welcome the winter solstice!
