First Light over Peacham (2024) Photograph by Francois de Melogue

First Light over Peacham
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on archival satin photo paper | 25x17

The sky over Peacham breaks open before the town is fully awake. A band of molten orange pushes up from the horizon, burning through a low shelf of cloud that catches the color and holds it, bruised and luminous, stretching west toward the hills. The light has no warmth yet, only intensity. It turns the maples from orange to copper to something closer to flame, and the birches catch it differently, pale trunks glowing against the dark mass of the tree line.

Below, the white steeple of the Peacham Congregational Church rises above the canopy in quiet authority, its clapboard siding catching the first usable light of the day. To the right, a red barn anchors the scene with the unhurried gravity of a building that has stood through many such mornings. The green of the lower fields is almost shocking in its freshness, still damp, still holding the night. In the distance, the long blue ridges of the Green Mountains press into the brightening sky, indifferent and permanent.

Quality is about longevity. I use a high-resolution Canon R5 Mark II to capture every detail of the Vermont landscape. Each piece is printed in-studio using professional-grade Canon Pro-1100 and Epson P9000 systems with archival pigment inks on natural cotton paper to create a print that will last for generations.

Print only, with a 1/4 inch wide white bordering for convenient matting and (or) framing

Unmatted (unmounted) / unframed.

Materials used:

Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 using museum-grade archival pigment inks on archival satin photo paper.

Details:

• Photograph on Paper
• From a limited edition of 25
• Size: 63.5 x 43.18cm (unframed)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Unspecified
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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