Fall is my favorite time of year. The leaves are turning different colors, the air is cooler, and most of the pesky bugs are gone.
Have you ever realized that when you drive down the same road every day, you may not notice how beautiful the surroundings are until that one perfect moment?
On a Saturday morning, I was coming back from the recycling center and turned onto Beauty Hill Road in Barrington, New Hampshire. The morning sun was shining on this old barn and the contrasting colors from the evergreen and deciduous trees beckoned me to take a picture.
I pulled over and took some pictures. My older son, while looking at his baseball cards, asked me why I was stopping to take a picture of an old barn. He did not see the picture that I saw in my mind.
This season, I have been taking lots of pictures but always seem to find something that I do not like in the photographs. A solar filter may have helped with some of them, but I do not have one yet.
When I downloaded the pictures from the camera and saw this photograph, I was pleasantly surprised. The colors were great, especially between the trees and the sky. The barn’s wooden sides were crisp with detail. I really liked how the knots were clearly visible and the weathered stained color on the wood offset the orange leaves in the background.
After my son saw the photo, he then realized how pretty an old barn could be during autumn in New Hampshire.
A Nikon D90 with Quantaray 3085 mm lens set at a focal length of 50 mm was used. This shot was a 1/250 second exposure with an F stop of 9.0 and the ISO was set to 320.
