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LaSalle County Landmark
LaSalle County Landmark
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Challenge: Free Study 2010-10 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX Aspherical DG HSM for Nikon
Location: LaSalle County, Illinois
Date: Oct 12, 2010
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100s
Date Uploaded: Oct 27, 2010

 Not the best photo I've taken all month, but the most meaningful. I was in Illinois for my wedding, staying with my future in-laws. Over breakfast I asked about any interesting bridges that might be around for the bridge challenge. Always a top guy, my future father in-law took it upon himself to take me on a tour of the bridges in the area.

I messed up the server time, not realizing the server was on east coast and I wasn't in Illinois, so I didn't get a chance to enter the bridge challenge. But after a few bridges and huge fried pork loin sandwich, the tour continued, and he eventually brought me to this, the largest corn crib in LaSalle County. It's massive. Those open doors down on the bottom left and right are truly people-sized.

We couldn't get too close, as it seemed to be completely infested with yellow jackets and/or wasps/bees (flying stinging things).

My processing could have been a lot better, but I did it with only my laptop monitor and it really does make a difference.

Again, not the shot so much as it was just the day and experience that made this photo for me.

And now I'm married and back in Germany.

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Place: 121 out of 316
Avg (all users): 5.9034
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
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Views since voting: 840
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Votes: 145
Comments: 8
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Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED VR
 11/15/2010 03:38:04 PM
absolutely gorgeous
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/08/2010 08:46:36 AM
Great Story to go along with this shot, Congrats on the Marriage! Hope that its a happy and prosperous one.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D700
Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX Aspherical DG HSM for Nikon
 11/08/2010 01:52:49 AM
I didn't mean to write that here. Check above for photo info.

Wish I could just delete it. I can't even mark it helpful!

Message edited by author 2010-11-08 03:20:53.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Apple iPhone 15 Pro
 11/07/2010 12:56:19 PM
All in the light 7.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus PEN E-P3
Konica Minolta MF 85mm f/1.7
 11/07/2010 01:41:17 AM
what a cool barn. nice autumn scene.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 11/05/2010 08:00:24 PM
Nice composition and great color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/04/2010 04:55:32 AM
Gorgeous light.

I have to admit though, being just slightly off center in a square frame is bugging me. The square frame seems so formal, so considered. Then the barn is loosely positioned within that, not enough off center to seem purposeful, just enough to be loose.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha NEX-3
Sony DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM
11/01/2010 11:04:21 PM
i like how the trees close in the barn.
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