Beautiful Mornin

Local sales are going to be your best place to become known. It is also the best place to attempt sales as these are the people who can relate and identify with your images. It could be something you all drive by every single day.
Such was the case on one cold winter morning in my hometown. I was sitting on the couch having my morning coffee and getting caught up on my images when I turned and looked out at the morning sunrise. The colors on that crisp morning made me jump up and grab my camera. I was still in pajamas, threw my coat on and slid my bare feet into my slippers. Not sure what my wife, Sandy, thought as I headed out, as this was still a relatively new hobby for me at that time.
I had to get on the other side of town to take a good shot. This does not take long as town is not very big. It was around zero degrees and the cold air hits right inside the lungs as you take the first breath in. No time to let the car warm up this day and in a flash I was down the road.
It took all of a minute or two at the most, told you town is not big, around 150 residents last I heard. I turned south on the blacktop county road heading towards State Highway 3. As I drive I am always on the look-out for the image I want to capture, and this morning there was a rushed panic as I knew the sun would be creeping up in any minute.
A quarter mile down the road I saw the shot I wanted. It was an old windmill with its base surrounded by a clay-brick well house. This old windmill is missing its blades and no longer serves the purpose it was built for but it looked good for a capture that day. There is nothing else on the property other than a few smaller bushy trees.
I pulled into the field drive way, parked the car and hopped out to take my captures. I would have been a site dressed in pajamas and wearing those slippers standing in the cold snapping pictures on that crisp cold morning. It has been one of my personal favorites and I have a copy hanging up in cubical at work.
Early this year I purchased some canvas prints un-stretched and decided to make my own frames. I has some ideas and settled on burnt pine. I never cared for the wrap canvas everyone seems to sell and gets a good price for and thought I would put my personal spin on it. The resulting piece is shown below and turned out far better than I imagined.