Lillias Right for Into the Wild
Added 2017-02-21 03:38:25 +0000 UTCI am learning these new forests. The woods of Philadelphia with their calm streams, silver maple lined banks, and poison ivy covered everything are where I learned how to take photos. The North Wests forests are an all together different beast. The woods that I have gone through here are intensely dense, and intensely green. It is one of the reasons I fell in love with Washington my first trip out here in 2009. Every tree is covered in mouse, the ground is covered in ferns, everything a green wet glow.
I can shoot almost all day...anyday as long as I have a willing model that doesn't mind rain, or wetness because everything is wet even when it is not raining. I run down the game trails around here like they are a new playground. The best way to find a safe place to shoot in nature has always been to follow the paths the deer make, and the same holds true here. I look for the small places to divert from the marked trail and disappear into the lush forest.
Getting up to Rattlesnake Lake with Lillas was a blast. It had just dropped a little bit of snow the day before, and most of Seattle had decided to stay home. We had much of the park to ourselves. I turned down a new trail, and then another and we found ourselves in some beautiful tall trees surrounded by moss, ferns, and small bits of snow. The temperature was quite cold, so we did not shoot for too long as the sun was quickly dipping, but what we did shoot turned out perfectly. Somehow this was Lillias' and my first time shooting out in nature, but I'm excited about the many more opportunities we will have to shoot as we reside in the same city now.
