• Henry David Thoreau.

The man who had the above radical thought once lived in this cabin away from society along with his three chairs (one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society). He once said that the only discomfort he had in such a small cabin was lack of space for thoughts when a visitor came along. I think its this kind of attitude towards life that made him one of my favorite western thinkers.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy, all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience.

The above cabin is an exact replica of Thoreau's cabin which he built while living near the Walden Pond. I sometimes go here for a little walking and took this handheld tone mapped HDR shot of the cabin against the afternoon sun. Off late I have found that HDR tech works very well and gives nice detail to those images which will otherwise be washed out with strong light. The non-HDR shots I took from this spot were washed out of their fall colors by the strong light from the setting sun. But I am really happy the way this shot turned out especially the details in the shadows.