Charlotte from Thirty Miles Out

This was shot from a small "mountain" (a monadnock, really) NNW ofCharlotte, NC the day after Christmas in 2011. Commentswelcome.

--Lannie

This was shot abouit 10:30 a.m. the day after Christmas in 2011.  By the time I got back into Mooresville on the way back to Salisbury, Diane Rehm was interviewing Diane Keaton on NPR.  I don't know why I remember that, but I do. 

 

It is curious how memory links photos to other things, not typically as powerfully as memory links to music and smells, but powerfully nonetheless.

 

--Lannie

I love the undulating tree tops!

Thanks, Diane.  They remind me to tell the world that this area (the Piedmont Plateau) is not flat.  I could see a similar view of Kansas City (about twenty miles away) from a hilltop in Liberty, Missouri, and the view was superficially similar--except that the intervening landscape there was quite flat by comparison.

 

The real mountains were to the northwest behind me.  The knob I was on here was called a "mountain," but it was hardly worthy of the name.

 

--Laninie

Unusual pov, but an interesting distinctive result

Thanks, Bill.  It is hard to find shots of Charlotte from far away here due to the plethora of trees and low hills in this area.  I did see more or less the same view from NC 150 some years ago on a cold winter's night, and the lighted skyline from that distance was worth seeing--but how it would have appeared through a telephoto lens I do not know.

 

It's good to hear from you.  I trust that you are doing alright.

 

By the way, I continue to be amazed at what the T2i (or 550D) can do with L series lenses.  It actually performs on a par with the 5D II--at least at moderate to long focal lengths.  (At extreme wide angle, I would not expect it to be competitive with the 5D II, of course--but some really good--and wide--EF-S lenses might change my mind.)

 

--Lannie