Salisbury, Vermont: Lake Dunmore Road and Route 7 (1 of 3, 500 mm lens w/o filter) by Salisbury Vermont

Reflex-Nikkor C 1:8 500mm

About 80% of the area of this image is in the town of Salisbury, Vermont. This view to the west from Burnt Mountain includes the entire 17 mile width of the Champlain Valley, with the Adirondacks in distant New York. As is true throughout the valley, the forests are young and the agricultural fields are old – trees older than 150 years are uncommon, but the fields have been cultivated a few decades longer than that. In the foreground fields, corn has been planted. In the middle ground, the first cutting of hay is in and manure slurry has been sprayed on some hayfields.

Notes: Photos were taken with an old Reflex-Nikkor 500mm lens (f8 only) which vignettes badly. All 460 photos were run through Photoshop (via Bridge) to reduce vignetting (the top rows need more work). I failed to attach the critical rear mounted filter on the lens for these shots. The Nikon D40 was on a GigaPan Epic 100. Compare (share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?auth=4814037915741df5442a4c5483f817a6 and www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?auth=1f14d8e014cd3a815daeb40d4101db72). Author: C. Fastie