... that is, according to WITOLD RYBCZYNCKI's philosophy of how to design a house. A painting was made of this house early in the 20th century and is used on the cover of his book titled the same (details below).

The house is presently owned by the Field family. We spent the extended Memorial Day weekend here along with the co-owners and other friends for four days of food, drink and fun!

The night photos are also my best success at a long 30 second exposure, painting the subject with a flashlight; in this case amazingly just a small 5 led flashlight. It's quite remarkable the difference that small amount of lumens can make, as the house is quite dark without it. Additionally you can clearly see the effect it has on the trees where I failed to hit it with the light. More remarkable is how the stars resolved at f/5.6 & f/6.3 at a mere ISO800 of boost. The K-5 continues to amaze and please.

I prefer the third version of the photo. You?







(the converging parallel lines in the photo sure make me wish a 12mm shift lens existed, and I owned one)

p.s. The following is the book mentioned on Amazon:
Amazon.com: MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN THE WORLD: WITOLD RYBCZYNCKI, Z/ATB: Books


p.p.s. Another edition of the book w/more detail and reviews, but w/a different cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Most-Beautiful-House-World/dp/0140105662/ref=sr_1_1?s=...7258763&sr=1-1

[the swede]

I like the second! Very good job with this!

[m8o]

I thought I did a really good job with these too. But the view count -to- comment/like count of this thread tells me we're in the minority.

Tho looking at these now on my Dell Latitude, which I think has a screen w/a slightly boosted gamma and other attributes that always exposes mistakes in my post-processing, I do tend to think now that I reduced contrast and darks too much in my effort to bring the darks and stars out.

[SpecialK]

#2 has a cleaner foreground, but all of them have too much sky for me.

[yusuf]

I agree, 2nd is nice.