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Very nice. I like log piles. My guess is that this is ash - maybe cut down because it had ash dieback....
 
Thank you Alan. This more likely to be hornbeam, very commonly used as firewood in my region.
 
Hornbeam is a high quality cabinetmaking timber. I imagine they are just using the thin branch wood for burning. Nothing to do with your photograph, of course. Have you taken any more pictures around this subject?
 
Yes, truncks are sold for cabinetmaking or house constructions. The "heads" of the trees are sold every year at low price to local people for firewood. One can also get whole younger trees in plots where clearing is needed for forest management. This way of warming houses is less and less common since one needs to be equiped (chainsaw, tractor...) and it takes time. I did that for 15 years and then gave up!

I also took this photo. Then rain came...

 
I like this. There is a real sense of mystery about it.
Whereabouts in France are you?
 
Thank you Alan.
I live in a very remote place just between Dijon and the Switzeland border (from the sky). Have you ever travelled over there ?
 
I have camped with my family in the Jura mountains in France, and camped on the shores of Lake Annecy. But most of my French holidays have been on the west side.
 
Coming from near Djon, we have to ask does the image "Cut the Mustard". To me not quite, I think some dodging and/or burning will transform it. Essentially open up this section

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There's a lot of lovely detail there.

Ian
 
I didn’t know this expression!
Thanks Ian for advice on dodging/burning. I will try it.
 
Cut the Mustard means - come up to expectations; reach the required standard. "I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player".

Is it a scan or a print.

Ian
 
Ansel Adams would say that negative (scan) is your score, go interpret.

Ian
 
Francis R said:
Yes, truncks are sold for cabinetmaking or house constructions. The "heads" of the trees are sold every year at low price to local people for firewood. One can also get whole younger trees in plots where clearing is needed for forest management. This way of warming houses is less and less common since one needs to be equiped (chainsaw, tractor...) and it takes time. I did that for 15 years and then gave up!

I also took this photo. Then rain came...

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Your comments about firewood remind me of a story about the French painter, Monet. He liked to do groups of paintings around the same subject. He didn't do these one at a time. He would start a whole series, then gradually bring them up to fruition over a period of time. On one occasion he was halfway through a series of paintings of poplar trees, when the Council, who owned the trees, announced that they were going to cut them down and auction them for firewood . Monet asked them to delay until his paintings were finished. They refused. So Monet went to see the man who would be most likely to buy the trees - the local timber merchant. He found out how much the merchant would be willing to pay, then offered to pay any extra to enable the merchant to win the bidding, so long as he delayed cutting the trees down until Monet had finished his paintings.
Everything went to plan. The merchant won the bidding, and let Monet finish his paintings before he cut the trees down.
 
As this is a scan, you should be able to re-scan, making the image brighter, and capturing more shadow detail. There seems to be no highlight detail that’s close to the limit to make this inadvisable.
This means that the resources of dodging and burning can be used for aesthetic purposes rather than rescuing faults.
I use VueScan but you may be using other software.
 
Francis R said:
This way of warming houses is less and less common since one needs to be equiped (chainsaw, tractor...) and it takes time. I did that for 15 years and then gave up!
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We live near Plestin-les-Grèves (22) and order our firewood, kiln-dried and pre-cut to 40cm and 30cm, in crates of just over 2 stères. All we have to do is split them and put them in the foyer. Lovely, toasty warm radiant heat. So much cosier, and cheaper, than electricity.
 
For sure Joanna this is the best way. I used to do from 25 to 50 stères (~cubic meters) every year. We use to say that firewood warms you many times: when you cut the branches, when you split them, when you pile them, when you transport them... :D
 
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