Reaching Out IV

Place: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Location: An Unnamed Farm

Sometimes you have to go searching for photographs and sometimes they just find you. I was driving through Harrisburg, Pennsylvania one foggy morning when I drove by a farm that had a beautiful bare tree in a field next to the farmhouse. The light was fairly dim and I didn't have my tripod with me. Nonetheless, I knew I just had to make a photograph of the scene and pulled over to the side of the road. I needed to carefully brace myself against another tree in the dim light in order to keep the camera still enough to get a sharp image.

The added and unexpected 'gift' in the photo, which is not easily seen on the small computer screen, is the crow sitting on the large branch at the bottom left of the tree. I hadn't seen it when I took the picture, but it just adds that little something special to the final print.

This photo was taken in color, converted to black and white, and then toned. The three toned images (Reaching Out II, Reaching Out III, and Reaching Out IV) work extremely well when hung together as a tryptich.