Landscape
These pictures were taken deeper in the woods. I found myself stopping quite a bit to take more photos at this point. This was pleasantly surprising, as from the outside, the nature preserve my dad and I had gone to looked rather uninteresting. Fortunately, once we'd gotten deeper in, things looked a lot more interesting. I'm pretty fond of nature in a visual sense, even though I don't really like going outside a lot, so it makes sense that I'd find something of interest here.
"Blurry Branches"
These pictures were taken at the start of the trail. I took a lot of photos here. Admittedly, this was mostly by accident; I was unfamiliar with my dad's camera, and held the click down longer than I meant to. Unfortunately, this spot produced less varied pictures than the rest. The nice thing is that this ended up providing a good photo to use a more intense filter on, as compared to pictures with more inherent visual interest, which I was hesitant to alter very much.
I took these photos a bit deeper in the woods. My dad had taught me a method of backlighting particular objects by taking pictures so that the objects are between the sun and the camera, and I decided to utilize that technique here. I found this particular spot to be good for photography, especially with the backlighting method in mind. As I mentioned earlier, these were taken deeper in the woods. Because of that, the environment was already darker than usual, and I think that created a pretty interesting effect when combined with the backlighting effect.
These photos are from the same field as the earlier one. However, for these photos, I zoomed in on a particular thorn bush that caught my eye. I think it's pretty nice that I found something of interest here, given that, as I mentioned earlier, I didn't find the field very exciting in its own right. The dark red color of the thorns stood out from the desaturated light brown colors of the field. This provided some much-needed variety and emphasis to the pictures, which I think was the key element missing in the field photos.
"Cleaving to the Earth"
I actually can't remember where I took these photos. Judging from the medium levels of tree cover, I'd say they were from the space between the field proper and woods proper. This means they were probably from when I was about to go into the woods or about to return to the field. I did end up taking several photos on the way back to the car, so it's possible the latter was the case. Surprisingly, given how many pictures I took heading in, I didn't take many on the way back. (Admittedly, by this point I'd already taken at least 200 photos, probably more, so maybe it's not that surprising.)
"Rising"