All in Flora
On a long hike such as the eight mile one I took on this day at the Briones Reservoir, I felt the weight of the singular lens and camera body, it was an extra burden I would have preferred to have left at home. But when the sun began to get lower in the sky there were images I just had to capture.
While trying to get out of a creative rut I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge: go out for a hike in the woods with the intention of taking photos, but only bring an 85mm prime lens. While the weather wasn't the most cooperative for getting interesting images, I managed to find some inspiration amongst the trees and create a few compositions.
While on the trails one overcast day my hiking partner asked for me to take some photos of her for Instagram. Always up for a challenge and carrying my camera as usual I jumped at the chance to take some photos.
Looking back through many of my images from the first half of this year I stumbled upon a series of images from an outing just after a snowstorm that I never posted while the images aren’t the best ones from my first Winter in New Hampshire, the story of revisiting a location I had previously photographed in the Fall made for what I find to be an interesting story.
One of the lesser known beauties of Berkeley is the Regional Parks Botanic Garden. While most people would go to the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens at the base of the Berkeley hills, this more relaxed and completely free experience is perhaps even more worth having.
As a child I remember looking up at the trees that seemed to scrape the sky while the sunlight lazily filtered to the forest floor. Visiting as an adult is a very different experience.
With Fall coming to a close and the last of the leaves falling off the trees I decided to go out and capture the color before it's gone for the year.
As I wrapped up my time with the X1D I reached a series of realizations about what using a piece of equipment worth more than car really means.
The first of my thoughts and images with the impressive $17,000 Hasselblad kit I rented for a weekend of non-stop photoshoots.
A series of stills of a variety of beautiful flora, suspended weightlessly in the black, the texture almost touchable in it’s three dimensionality.
As my time in the North-East progressed as did the changing of the leaves. In my last weeks there the whole world seemed to be on fire in reds, yellows, and oranges. I took a beautiful hike up to a remote fire tower to see the expansive views of the leaves as they began to reach their peak of colorfulness.
Nearly every chance I got I was out on the lake, the mild weather made for perfect days out on the boat or just enjoying the sound of the water at the beach.
One of my favorite places in Berkeley to go for a walk is the Wildcat Creek Trail at the Tilden Little Farm, it isn’t the most exciting hike in the Berkeley hills, but it so easily and conveniently accessible that I find myself frequently taking friends and family there.
