David Nolan and his ancestors have been farming in the beautiful mountain community of Fines Creek, North Carolina for several generations. They are people who clearly love the land and wish to see it kept, in this valley, to the noble purpose of agriculture. Although it would have been easy to create an image of the entire barn of which this slice is but a part, it was the intimacy of this piece of the old silo and its time-honored relationship with the old barn which it adjoins that really caught my eye. The worn old ladder now clasped to the breast of the silo as much by a swarm of searching vines as by the nails that once did in years gone by just seemed to complete the story of a time long ago when farming was a different enterprise than it sadly has become. David Nolan kindly consented to allow our recent workshop to photograph this wonderful piece of history. A focal length of 292mm gave me the intimate slice I wanted from the larger whole. An aperture of f/11 gave me sufficient depth-of-field, and a shutter speed of 1/15 second at ISO 100 gave me an overall medium exposure.