I took the tripod out of the car when we had to travel over the holidays and today I am regretting that it hasn’t made it back into the car.  I stopped at the cemetery in the village to get a picture of the stone house and wall at the front.  I have been passing this building for months since my interest in photography thinking it would be a great subject for a picture.  I was not disappointed after stopping.

I attempted to take a 3 exposure bracket without the tripod and the resulting picture had too many ghosts.  The Photoshop Elements program did a great job aligning the building but the background trees had ghosts.  I adjusted my strategy to the processing.  I started with the normal exposure image and processed it through Topaz Labs Adjust utilizing the Heavy Smooth HDR filter.  A few small tweaks to the levels and contrast once back in Elements to produce the final image.

The next time I pass through the village with some cooperating light I will be stopping to explore this building and surrounding stone wall more closely.  There are some iron fences in the stone wall that look promising.  It is snowing out now, maybe tomorrow will be my next chance.