This is the beautiful 19th century ante-bellum plantation home, Oak Alley, in Vacherie, Louisiana. The live oak trees were planted in the early 1700’s about 100 years before the home was built. I took this shot in the 80’s; now there is a paved walkway down the center of the grass. This scene looks most impressive when photographed with a telephoto lens so the mature trees are compressed into a graceful, arching tunnel of green. I captured this with my first medium format film camera, the Mamiya RB 67, and a 250mm lens. I always used a tripod with this camera because with landscapes (and this is essentially a landscape situation) I usually used f/32 for maximum depth of field. That decreased the light entering the camera and that, in turn, forced the shutter to be slow -- probably 1/2 second in this case. This was 20 or 25 years before the invention of focus stacking. The film I was using at the time was Kodak Ektachrome 64.
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