Alexandria Art League August 2011

My image of a housing development and an old barn near Leesburg, Virginia was juried into the August 2011 show, 'Scapes: All Media Membership Landscape Exhibit.  "Vanishing Landscape" also won an Honorable Mention from the guest juror Sarah Tanguy who is an independent curator and critic, as well as a curator for Art in Embassies (AIE), US Department of State, based in Washington, DC.

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The title "Vanishing Landscape" comes from how the housing development has urbanized the rural landscape.

To capture this image, I used my 4x5 view camera with KodaK HEI Infrared film sheet film an a #29 red filter.  I metered the exposure using a hand-held incident light meter adjusted for the film's exposure index and filter factor.

I really enjoy photographing landscapes as I use many of the same techniques, equipment and attention to detail as in architectural photography.

Todd A. Smith is a No. VA, VA, DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY architectural photographer with offices in Alexandria, VA and Spring Lake, NJ. Please visit http://www.tasphoto.com/ to see examples of his architectural photography.