I set my alarm determined to go out with the camera, but with no significant notion of what to capture. At the end of the morning, it showed.
The skies were clear, so when the alarm sounded at 0530, there wasn’t going to be a nice sunset to capture.
So that left me to choose between a wildlife hike or searching for light in local woods. Both would require some walking, but I am trying to rest my foot, which I think has a stress fracture (I have been resting it for nearly 2 weeks now). So that left me with few options … so I went to Green Lakes with the plan of practicing with the 25mm prime and limiting my walking distance.
I would go on to spend the morning visualizing what a scene would look like through my viewfinder, then bringing the camera to my eye. I found that I could easily visualize a nearby scene, but had greater difficulty with the scale of landscape images.
My favorite image of the day is one that I don’t imagine any one else would like, but it speaks to me. I see strength and weakness at once. I see a strong human-made structure that constrains even nature’s strongest winds, but is filled with cracks and imperfections. At the same time, I bear witness to the the undeserving warning and caution that we humans now surround ourselves with (even outdoors). Meanwhile, nature perseveres; it grows where it wants, without regard for the wishes of man.
As an exercise, I would also spend much of the morning trying to create interesting images with intentional camera movement as well, but alas, I failed to create an image that was compelling.
Even still – I got out and I had my camera with me. On most days, that is all that I would ask for.