Biscuit Brook

Jul 18

Mini Adventures in Backpacking

Regina and I used to go camping together quite a bit, and this one of very few backpacking trips we did. I think we stayed at this leanto on Biscuit Brook more than once, and I remember we lugged a bag of firewood all the way up here on the first trip, not knowing exactly how far it was, or how steep of a climb we had to make at the start.

Ah, the folly of youth.

I say youth because these images are from September 15th, 2018.

Before we had children.

Before the pandemic.

Before we owned two homes that required massive repairs.

Ah, the simpler times.

I’m pretty sure this grill grate was at the lean-to. Donno what I was planning for these veg before we found it.

That said, I can’t wait to go on a family camping trip and show my little outdoorsy children the wilderness life.

My heart wells up just thinking about it.

Having children is awesome, folks.

The Stream of Life

I’m sharing this now because I just mentioned it in the last post - about this photo I really love of the water, and also because I feel a little silly that my wilderness adventures and photography aren’t here in my journal, the place I’ve said on multiple occasions is where I want all of my photography to live online.

And sure, it’s mostly a page for my professional work - but would I go on a camping trip and take photos if someone hired me to do it?

You better believe it.

But wait! Where there’s a building, there is architecture!

And, we can always pretend for a moment that these photos of a leanto, a structure with intentional design, are architecture photographs, and shooting the surrounding environs and activity we had there, are just supporting images.

So there we go, it IS architectural photography after all.

Take that, imaginary haters.

Images from the journey

I’d like to think that I’ve gotten much better than this at photographing a path through the woods over the years, but it remains a challenge. Scenes like this are often really busy with light and foliage, but I’m still striving to improve this type of photo so I can have the most beautiful trail photos on any particular map / app. I think I might even get into what feels like the old school game of putting a watermark on the photos, and thinking of it more as a digital signature. I like to sign my prints, why not sign my digital images, too?

Well, why wait? Let’s do it now.

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-much later-

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Whoops, got sidtracked, never got around to making that signature watermark. Maybe tomorrrow.

Here are a few more images from the trip, which I hope to flesh out before this post goes live. If not, then you’ll be reading this sentence.