I went out for an afternoon hike with Christine today – we went out to Pratt’s Falls County Park. I’ve photographed the falls on a few occasions, and there was nothing that I saw that inspired me to photograph them again.
Actually, there wasn’t much of anything that was inspiring. The snow has melted, but there is only the faintest hint of green anywhere, mostly just the areas of mowed grass. Otherwise, everything was brown.
On the way to pick up the kids from my parent’s house, we briefly stopped at the Lorenzo mansion in Cazenovia to walk the grounds. While I had been complaining about mid-day light while walking near the falls, the light was to my advantage here. As I was walking behind the house, I saw this scene:
I wasn’t sure if it was too tall or not, but I was going to try to frame that wall with the unique door and see if I could fix it in LR. I backed up far enough to try to eliminate any distortion, framed it up, and pressed the shutter button one time. I envisioned a contrasty monochrome image from the beginning and I am mostly happy with the result:
