Todays post features an image that I envisioned in my mind and thanks to the owners of the property,I was allowed the opportunity to go for it. I had stopped here to get permission to shoot another image and as I drove up the lane, it became obvious to me that more photo possibilities existed. I had a box of luminaries at home and could envision them lining the lane leading to the house on this winter night.The owners thought it might be a cool shot and encouraged me to try it. I arrived an hour before sunset and started to place the luminaries and then started to light them. I brought two lighters from home that I tested before leaving and when I tried to use them at the location,they no longer worked? Thankfully I brought matches as well,but the thing that really amazed me was the owners were going away as I was trying the lighters, and they told me to just go in their house because there were several lighters in the kitchen I could use. I said I absolutely was not going to go in their house,especially since we just met that morning.The matches worked and thankfully I got the shot I had imagined. I think the luminaries provide a nice leading line for the eye to follow.

very nice; great vision.
Thanks so much Dan
Don—-You’ve taken a bunch of really beautiful shots this winter. I salute your photography skills, and your willingness to be out and about at all hours in any kind of weather !
Thanks for the salute.I was running pretty ragged for a while getting up early and shooting late,so its nice to hear the images are being looked at.
Just gorgeous. Did you add all the window light as well?
The only light that was not lit was the small barn on the left,which they gave me permission to go inside and light with my flashlight.