Views of the Valley III

I kept driving around the area that beautiful sunny day, and got a few more pictures, continuing to look particularly for viewpoints over the countryside that made an interesting photo.  These ones are taken outside the actual Beaver Valley, but in the countryside not too far away.

In 4 of these I found a big old maple tree with a view across the fields and woods behind that I thought made a good photo.  The barn in the distance  adds an interesting focal point while the tree and the fence in the foreground help frame this one.

I'm thinking of these photos partly as a photographic experiment.  I saw some very expensive large pictures at a gallery in Vermont where the photographer took approximately the same shot of a rural landscape at three different seasons.  I'm thinking of doing the same thing with some of these, so these will be the winter shots.

This one doesn't have a barn, but it does have a series of fields retreating into the distance until the farthest one is the fourth field over.  That's so typical of the countryside around here.

This may be the best of the group, with the red barn, and it's closer, as well as the tree fence framing the view.  I find myself wondering now what these views will be like in spring, summer and fall.

For comparison,  this one doesn't cut it for me, because it lacks a focal point in the distance, even though the maple tree up close is very nice.  I think you learn a lot of landscape photography through trial and error.

This is just a different sort of shot, shot nearly into the sun, creating the contrast of shadows and snow and trees, in this case heavily coated in frost.  I stopped partly because I had never noticed the stream course in the summer, but in the winter it's quite obvious as a small valley curving toward me.

And of course there were lots of interesting individual big old sugar maple trees like this one along these roads as I drove around.

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