Towering Sugar Maple – Last Year of Glory?
Old Sugar Maple – Betty Rembert
If there’s one scene within walking distance of her home that attracts Betty over and over again, in any season, it’s this towering maple that has withstood the elements for perhaps a hundred years and is now nearing the end of it’s reign. The top has no growth this year but the lower regions are still hanging on, perhaps for the final fall. Remarks have been heard that fall of 2012 doesn’t live up to the usual annual Ashe County show, with muted color and many leaves simply turning brown and falling off. This may be true but that doesn’t mean there’s no beauty, perhaps just a little more specific and difficult to locate. As the members spread out over the area for this month’s assignment, the results will surely prove this to be the case as does the above image. The beauty of our mountains is in a league of its own. The soft late afternoon light is ideal for the foreground and background.
Canon EOS 5D with an EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at a focal length of 73mm
Exposure 1/400sec at f/8.0
ISO 200
October 5th, 2012 at 5:43pm
