Man with an Axe [Diana camera]
September, 2008
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This was taken earlier in the fall at the Draft Horse Classic in Grass Valley, California. One of the parallel attractions there was the Lumberjack Contest. The scene above shows one of the contestants standing on a board that he has inserted into a notch he has cut into the tree trunk. After notching the tree and inserting the board, he climbs on it and carefully balances while swinging away at the top section. This is repeated a couple of times as he moves ever higher on the trunk. You can see the first board he inserted a bit lower down on the tree trunk.
I have a few frames that I shot of this scene, but this one is the best. The strong foreground/background relationship between the spectator in the hat and the lumberjack creates was the most satisfying composition of the three frames.
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