Cheryl and I were chasing down a list of barns we wanted to shoot in Avon CT this chilly December day in 2018.  Down the street from one of the ones on our list, low and behold, was this beauty.  It was situated in an open field a considerable distance off.  When photographed that way it lacked any interest.  I then switched to a medium telephoto lens and stepped back into the roadway so I could frame the barn with the two elm trees.  The telephoto helped “compress” the image bringing the barn closer to the trees.  There was horribly harsh sunlight that day but fortunately the bulk of the…