This is Yates Mill in Historic Yates Mill Park in Raleigh North Carolina. Yates Mill Park is a very popular photography spot for general visitors and especially for local portrait studios. At any given point in time there are often lines waiting to get shots at one of the many scenic spots in the park. This was shot was taken during a tour of the inside of the Mill which I think is just as cool as the outside. Built in the 1700s the history of the mill is pretty interesting and the engineering really remarkable for it’s day. When most mills took at least a have a dozen or more men to run this mill was automated enough to only require two people. The mill stone you see in this shot actually weighed over a ton yet the original stone masons were so accurate that it sits perfectly level only a few milimeters above the bottom stone. I loved the warm wood colors and contrasting sun and shade which I think would make for a gorgeous HDR shot but unfortunatly they didn’t permit tripods so I had to take this shot by hand in the corner after folks had left.