It's a Wrap!

Manchester Centre, New Hampshire- Fall, 2000

It was a new place. I had been photographing New England in the fall for decades and had my favorite haunts (one example- an obscure hill Vermont where I stood for hours with a Japanese film crew waiting for the sunrise. When they send people all the way from Japan you know you've picked the right location!). We'd blown into Manchester Centre late the evening before in the rain so I didn't get the opportunity to scout the area and found myself working under extreme time constraints. We were there after all to visit my daughter at prep school not to spend the day wandering around like a camera happy tourist (or so I was told).

I love this shot. It is one of those once in a lifetime pictures. Try as I did in subsequent visits, I was never able to recapture the leaves wrapping around the steeple creating a natural frame for God's house.

Never digital - always film