Appalachian Spring

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Originally uploaded by Pretty Penny.

AS nature photographers we spend a lot of time framing up our photos. Usually that consists of composing different beauty spots that are available and grouping them together to help tell a story about how we interpret what we see. More and more though, our framing process is concerned with excluding eyesores, almost all of which are man-made intrusions into nature. I have always photographed a few of these contrasting elements of beauty and junk just for fun, but now with the fecundity of digital, that becomes very easy and I am doing a lot more of that. So here we have the old familiar (to those of us who live in the southern mountains) scene of rusted out hulks of old cars being adorned with the beauty of nature's blessings. Is this really a valid nature photograph? Actually I think it is more of a poem.