I hadn’t been out in the woods to photograph for weeks! That’s why getting out today was so important. I didn’t expect to create anything special, I just wanted to hike around and see what spring was bringing. After trudging around for a couple hours with a heavy long lens and tripod, I had had enough. The gear went back into the van and I drove off. It was cloudy, but not cold so I parked at a new location and started back into the woods. This time, I brought no camera. I just wanted to visualize the potential imagery I could make next time. I walked around for about an hour taking in the textures and colors of the ground, trees, old stone walls, and lines of a creek that winds through the woods.
Sometimes it is best for me just to walk and “see” without any gear. It’s something I don’t do often enough. My approach was to ask myself, if I were to make the image I’m visualizing, how would I do it and what gear would I need? When I walk around with a camera, I generally think about what type of imagery I can make with that particular gear. It’s limiting. I have several new ideas for series of images and feel that my time was well spent.
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