The Quiet Picture

Finding my voice in the silence of nature

Oct 17

Re-exploration

Category: creek,hiking

If you look at the world map, you won’t see any white space anymore – we (humans) have been everywhere. The time of the great explorers is now but an exciting story in a book. What is left is personal discovery – just because some other people have been there before, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth for me to see. Another great day (HDR)Up here in my neck of the woods everything is in smaller scale of course, I gravely doubt we any had any explorers here at all. Only the early settlers who endured the harsh environment and made a living out of the forest.

So today I was, if not an explorer, then a re-explorer anyway. We found a place which didn’t look like it’s been visited by humans in many years. Plenty of traces of log driving activity, but when the trucks took over the log piles the people deserted these waterways. The only tracks we found belonged to moose and a bear.

It was a difficult day for photography, so all I have is a few pictures for memories. But a poor day for photography was a great day for discovery!

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  1. Miika October 18th, 2009 1:10 am

    Lucky you! (I spent last 15 hours in studio… recording, not photographing, mind you :D )

    Really nice picture with the shadows – middle of picture is my favorite part, but I would do some magic to both low and high parts maybe? Or maybe just desaturate the sky a bit? Regardless, me likes.

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