Lincoln's Mother's Bed
Image taken on the second floor of the historic Richard Berry family log cabin, where President Lincoln's mother (Nancy Hanks Lincoln) lived and worked as a seamstress and family helper before she married his father, Thomas. According to the brass plaque on the wall, this was her Berry household bed, on loan to the state from its current private owner, so the image title is factual rather than whimsical. The cabin is located at the Lincoln Homestead State Park outside of Springfield, KY, USA. Photographers are rare, but welcome, as are tripods. A $2 fee is charged to self-tour with no time limit. Upkeep is sustained by the park golf course, across the road from the log cabins. When the park was built, the Berry cabin was moved from its original site (on private land about a mile away) and placed roughly 80 yards away from the site of Thomas' log cabin. A different log cabin was moved onto the original foundation of Thomas' cabin due to near-complete deterioration of the original. So now, there's one 'right' cabin in the wrong place, and one 'wrong' cabin in the right place. :) It seems Thomas witnessed his father murdered (also named Abraham...the President was his grandfather's namesake) during an Indian raid on his brother (President Lincoln's uncle) Mordecai's homestead, just a few miles away. Mordecai's home is evidently the only original Lincoln Kentucky family cabin at the correct location. D200, 12-24 f/4 DX Nikkor, Hoya Pro1 polarizer, 7 shot HDRI series at 1 EV steps, RAW conversion in LR2.x to tif with RAW sharpening applied, processed by exposure blending option in Photomatix Pro, then re-imported to LR2.x and tweaked. The room has no artificial light - a very dark interior with windows on the front side of the cabin only, so scene DR in that area of the cabin is quite high. Without lights or reflectors, the shot would have been otherwise impossible. Note the purple spot in the center caused by the sensor bandpass filter reflecting off the back of the polarizer.