You might find this useful for helping to determine when the light will be best:
https://www.photoephemeris.com/ > On 15 Apr 2020, at 06:25, Dale H. Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, here I go starting another photographic interest. A friend got me > interested in SPOOM - the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills > (https://www.spoom.org). This morning I joined SPOOM, downloaded their PDF of > existing old mills in Virginia, and I spent the afternoon in nearby Floyd > Co., VA. I located five of the eight mills they have listed for Floyd Co., > and had previously photographed one more (Mabry Mill, photographed about a > year ago). I still have to locate two Floyd Co. mills, whose descriptions in > the SPOOM list of Virginia mills are vague and incorrect. > > Today's trip was what some might call a fishing trip, but which I call a > scouting trip. A scouting trip has three purposes: > > 1) To find the desired locations (old mills in this case) and plot them > accurately in Microsoft Mappoint on my laptop so that I can find them again > (or direct someone else to their locations). > > 2) To take establishing photos so that I can decide which view of a location > (i.e., mill) works best. I like overcast days like today for scouting trips > so I don't have to deal with bad sun angles or shadows. > > 3) To decide what time of day will give the best light for each chosen view. > > I will review the photos tomorrow (it's tired and I'm getting late (bonus > points for anyone who can name the song and artist from whom I stole that > line)). The two mills I didn't find have no GPS coordinates, but have > locations in a brand of Virginia atlas that I don't have, so a trip to Barnes > and Noble tomorrow is in order. I hope to plan a return visit on a sunny day > later this week or next week, that should yield some photos good enough to > share. Mind you, Mabry Mill is a silk purse and today I saw a lot of sow's > ears. I hope to use some of the techniques I used in the Mabry Mill photo to > make the Floyd Co. mills look less like run-of-the-mill (pun intended) swine > and a bit more like Miss Piggy. > -- > Dale H. Cook, Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm walking- > around lens, Rokinon 650Z 650-1300mm telephoto lens > https://plymouthcolony.net/photos/index.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
