Restricted access is the bane of all landscape and location photographers. Locked gates and doors have kept many an obvious photograph from being made. Rather than looking at gates as preventers of photography, the challenge is to make a better photograph in spite of the roadblocks put in our way by those that want to keep us from getting a better vantage point. We must move beyond the obvious photograph to one that is much better. At Yates Mill there are many locked gates and few vantage points. As such, only a couple of distinct images can be made. After making the obligatory obvious images, I was walking away from the building. I turned around to collapse my tripod and then I saw this composition. I made the photograph. I think that from now on, I will not turn my back and walk away from a photographic opportunity, but will back away slowly, looking for that “one, last picture” on my way to the car.
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