Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.
– mary ellen mark
It is now, finally….maybe…fall time. Here in north Georgia and Chattanooga some people refer to the current conditions as false fall. It serves as a preview of what is to come, but more than likely it is not quite fall time. We will inevitably have some warmer days again before it cools off for good on its way to winter. Sometimes that means we don’t get as beautiful of fall time color as we do other times, but for me I will still always love fall time because of the cooler temperatures. Of course it is always nicer to spend time in the outdoors when the leaves are changing and their are a lot of bright colors, but cooler temperatures make it more comfortable to get outside for longer hikes and bike rides, and more time exploring and taking pictures. I have Fall Break approaching which this year gives me an entire week off of work right in the middle of October. I have two great mini-trips planned and will probably make a couple of day trips as well. Almost all of the places I will be visiting I have never been to before.
I am so excited about these adventures and the opportunity to rest, relax, and take lots of pictures. Even though I won’t be going to somewhere that really gets a lot of fall color like the Rocky Mountains or New England, I think I will capture a lot of great landscape photographs. In fact, I am reminded of a similar trip I took when I still lived in New York City, where I traveled to upstate New York (which I have only been to the single time and truly feel it is under appreciated) as well as Vermont which I traveled to several times while I studied photography in central Massachusetts. I remember telling myself after this particular trip that I wanted to visit the Adirondacks and small towns in upstate New York again, particularly at winter time, and I have got to go to Watkins Glen State Park some time in my life. Plus, since I have begun to get to bike ride a lot more this year than in the past several, I have realized that I want to go to Burlington, VT to ride some mountain bike trails and an amazing looking rail trail. I often feel now that any and every trip I go on makes me want to go on more, but that is what makes it so enjoyable.
A future post will probably include details of my upcoming Fall Break trips, but for now I wanted to reminisce on that fall time trip that was over 10 years ago and show off some of those pictures as I anticipate the upcoming season and all that it entails: farmer’s markets, apple cider, colorful foliage, and cooler temperatures. Since I have several photos I want to include in this post I will put them in a gallery with small captions. I hope you enjoy them, I hope it causes you to get excited about fall, and maybe even makes you want to travel (whether to these locations or other places you have always wanted to go).
