PESO: Rowan Oak

[Christine Aguila]

Hi Everyone:

Any William Faulkner fans on the list?  We drove down to Oxford, Mississippi 
to see Faulkner's Home, Rowan Oak & some manuscript archives at the 
University of Mississippi, as well as stopping at the Center for Southern 
Culture, which is on campus as well.  I highly recommend going to the campus 
library to see the manuscript items.  Faulkner's Nobel Peace Prize is there 
among other items. It's free.  Ole' Miss is a lovely campus, and we were 
surprised to learn the student body is only around 14,000 students.  I would 
have guessed 20-25, but I would have been only wrong--again.

Anyway, I've wanted to photograph this famous front walk for a long time. 
Unfortunately, the conditions were not so good:  cloudy & a constant misty 
rain.  The grounds, which are lovely, were quite muddy.  I had to work fast, 
wipe the camera, work faster, wipe the camera, then work even faster. 
Still, I'm happy I got something.  Sometimes you just have to shoot in the 
conditions Mother Nature gives & make peace with this fact.

K10D, DA* 50-135, 55mm, ISO 400, 1/13 sec & f11, tripod mounted


Smaller
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7082647

Larger
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7082647&size=lg

Comments/critique welcome.
Cheers, Christine