Life of Leslie: Journal

Landscape Photography class was much more challenging than I thought it would be. Out of the 12 field trips and hundreds of photos, I found very few of them to be artistic, clear have meaning. My favorite type of pictures to take were macro photos- taking pictures of detail very close up. I enjoyed finding patterns in nature and capturing them to make it as clear as possible. Recognizing and enhancing detail in natural scenes created a style of photography that I was proud of.

The field trip to the UVM Greenhouse was where I took some of my best macro pictures.

This is one of my favorite pictures. I was drawn to the unique pattern on the bark because it was pointing up. The light was coming in on an angle and made for a small glare that brought out some cooler color tones in the bark.

I love the way the light accents the tips of the leaves and the soft texture of this plant.

Centennial Woods - Burlington VT - The falling snow created amazing scenes and morphed the landscape.

The day that we went to Jericho Research Forest was a beautiful sunny (but below freezing) day which highlighted some amazing colors on the wood of the trees.

Light casting linear shadows at different angles.

Shelburne Farms - Shelburne VT was a unique trip where we had the opportunity to photograph buildings in nature.

The ceiling boards make the room appear really long because they get smaller when you look towards the door. The room was well lit and highlighted the different brown tones in the wood.

This picture was taken at the end of our day at Shelburne Farms when the sun was setting and the ice was beginning to form on the lake. The light was shining through the trees and reflected on the pieces of ice in the water.

In Williams Woods in Charlotte VT, I learned about beech bark disease which was a very interesting deformation in the usually smooth beech bark. The deformity in the bark looked so severe from far away and from up close to the point where the tree looked almost unrecognizable which was very shocking to me.

This is one of my favorite pictures that I have taken in this class. The irregularity in the branches balances out how the tree is centered in the photo which generally would be considered not to be art.

Shelburne Pond

The random placement and color of the fungus growing up this tree was unusual and intriguing.

Audubon - Huntington VT

Warm colored wood and on a maple sugaring barn

Beaver dam look out house

Looking up through White Pines

Birch tree bark

Laplatt River Marsh - Shelburne VT

Irregular tracks from pests under bark.

Inside a dead silver maple

Mt Philo - Charlotte VT - Very rocky landscape with rich color tones on the boulders.

Blood root

Feeling small on the top of Mt Philo, looking west toward the Adirondack mountains.

Niquette Bay - Colcehster VT - There were several rock walls at Niquette Bay which was where I found there to be bright colored moss thriving during this wet month.