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Posted by Betsy Barron (Glenmoore, United States) on 20 November 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

I have a little story for today. So, it has been clean and purge week around the Barron household. Starting with the kids' rooms, the closets, the office and on and on. My husband and I have vowed to live cleaner and with less 'stuff' accumulating in piles about our feet.

In cleaning out our photo cabinet (you know the one... the one you quickly shut the doors on before everything comes toppling down).. I found a box labeled 28-105 lens. And I thought to myself, do I HAVE a 28-105 lens? YES! I do! From my Elan 7 35mm camera. And you know what? It's an EF model lens which means it fits on my 5D body!

First of all, I feel like an idiot. Second of all, I've been canceling photography jobs because my 24-70 is in the shop. And finally, it just goes to show how too much STUFF will prohibit you from seeing all that you actually HAVE!

We will be applying this theory to every aspect of life from now on and I hope in preparation for Thanksgiving, a celebration of the plentiful bounty, this will inspire YOU to do the same ! :)

ps. this image shot with the 28-105 during our FIRST SNOW OF THE YEAR!

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Comments (18)

Michael Rawluk from Prince George, Canada

Beautiful shot. The colours and the snow all look so gentle.

20 Nov 2007 1:08am

Auror from italy, Italy

thisis a beautiful shot. it makes me feel the sensation of christmas..

20 Nov 2007 2:35am

Judit from Montbui, Spain

Great shot, perfect contrast of colours

20 Nov 2007 3:23am

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

Wow, you did it again, oooo that took my breath away, lovely, lovely snow, lovely compo, love it all!!!!
So glad you found your lense, and you're right that overflowed drawer can produce gold...Once I found a hundred dollar bill, WHOOOOOT? 'was great ;)

20 Nov 2007 4:37am

cypol from Seoul, South Korea

Beautiful. A blend between Falls and Winter

20 Nov 2007 6:18am

Eleftheria, 9 years old, from Athens, Greece

A beautiful image!

20 Nov 2007 6:56am

Viewfinder from Bradenton, United States

Well here's something we never see in tropical Florida. And believe it or not, I do truly miss the first snows of fall/winter (thru about the end of December). So this is a visual treat.

And your story is great, along with your lens discovery. I am happy for you -- had a somewhat similar one myself, as I recently re-discovered a near-forgotten wide angle lens that fit both my Nikons (SLR and DSLR). Your de-clutter plan is a good one, we're working in that direction slowly but surely at the VF home. And then comes Christmas, and we drag out all that extra decorating stuff and get new stuff and it starts again...

20 Nov 2007 7:31am

PShorten from West Chester, United States

Snow and fall leaves - what luck...we had rain at our house!
Glad you found a replacement lense...good to go!

20 Nov 2007 8:31am

Russ from United States

Beautiful contrast between the golden yellow leaves and the snow. I'm glad you were able to capture this. I was too tied up to go shoot our first snowfall and I'm bummin' about it. I'm glad to see that lens dropped into your lap (sorry...couldn't resist that one...you can hit me later). If you want help cleaning and organizing, I will send my wife. She's very good at pitching out anything that sits still longer than 30 minutes (fortunately, I haven't been pitched out yet). I can't leave anything out for very long otherwise she'll put it someplace where I can't find it.

20 Nov 2007 10:13am

Shahab from Qazvin, Iran

So beautiful!Peaceful!love it!

20 Nov 2007 10:21am

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Ok, so snow isn't a dirty 4 letter word when it looks this breathtaking!! Beautiful shot Betsy!! Absolutely beautiful.

20 Nov 2007 10:28am

JoeB from Brampton, Canada

I really like the line of the trees, and colour just stands out.

20 Nov 2007 10:39am

DaveB from Exeter, United Kingdom

Beautiful shot Betsy, well done! I ad a similar lens experience recently, I thought I didn't have anything covering the 55-70mm range, until I looked through my old film camera kit for stuff to get rid of and found a lovely 24-70mm lens that'll fit my 400D :)

20 Nov 2007 11:43am

Lorie from United States

Great story Betsy and awesome shot! Your recent work is beautiful!

21 Nov 2007 11:28pm

Ed von Ems from Mealhada, Portugal

Very good

22 Nov 2007 2:37pm

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

Just excellent!

24 Nov 2007 9:23am

Y.M. from Linwood, United States

This is a magnificent shot once again. I think you should prepare a collection of four seasons tree photos and submit them for publication. They are all so very good and should be shared with the masses. I do mean this. Insofar as eliminating "stuff", Y.D. and I are planning on doing the same -- purging ourselves of accumulations of things we don't even know we have. So anything not used in the past 2 years is going to someone else who might actually value it enough to use it. At least that's the plan....I'm on board, but is HE??? I think that goes for your household too -- is my SIL on board? Love you,
Y.M.

2 Dec 2007 7:16pm