Ok.. well finally I want to share some of my pictures from a hike I took around Blue Hills about a week ago.. there’s been a few requests so…  gotta get on that, right?

Before we get started.. let me just say I’m new to photography.. really only picked up a camera for the first time at the early part of this past summer.. but that said.. I don’t think I’m really that bad at it.. really just learning… and as I take you through these, I’ll no doubt talk about it a little… 

Ok, so Entering Blue Hills

We are entering via the main pond.. and before we get to the main field.. by the main pond, well it looks kinda like this, right? 

If you walk up the hill towards the big dark tree there.. and look out over the field.. here’s your view:

Kinda pretty, ha?

If you walk into the tree line.. and then just a bit to the right.. you’ll come to this view of the pond / beach…

Not really sure if that was the pic I meant to post for that scene.. but oh well…

Here’s one around the same area.. but with the tree’s obstructing our view.

And here we have another view of the water:

Should I add that these are all taken at about the same time of day?

Shit.. I def posted the wrong one here!

Anyway.. its a bit of a walk from here.. across a few fields.. and you eventually end up on “The Old route 128.” Which.. I guess is 128 before it.. was moved? lol, clearly I don’t know anything about it…

 

This is all more or less the order shot.. and me looking for something worth shooting.. well, I was messing around with focal ranges.. which is different from how I normally shoot.. and wanted to see what I’d get with this aperture if I zoomed in on something and.. with the background kinda out of focus.. and here’s what I got..

Which lead into this series.. who’s mood I rather like.

I do rather like the super saturated look.. along with that very high contrast. 

This little series was more or less taken with me standing in the same position.. just rotating around. 

And.. if we get out of this little mini series.. and rotate around to the street.. we see our bicyclist friend again.. riding away from us…

You know its kind of funny.. cause this pic is just sooooo unusable!  I mean its way out of focus.. you got that mad lens flare.. before I digitally developed the hell out of it.. it looked way the hell over exposed.. so that this was really an experiment of taking an unusable picture and making it usable.. not that it’s so great even as is.. but.. I still sorta like it.. perhaps with an “if only.”

But you know.. good enough for telling our story.

Anyway.. so its about at this point where we get to a place on the old 128 that I was really digging.. if you pay attention to the marks of the street.. you’ll see an awful lot of the following pictures take place around the same place.

Ok, now pay attention to these leaves coming up… as again they’ll give us a sense of where we is at.. looking in the opposite direction down this street.

lol, it’s like a Terry Gilliam movie, ha?

And look.. its that guy again… (notice the leaves still?) 

And yet another unusable.. though I like it.. him going the other way.

And again we turn our attention to the trees…..

If you note the look of the ground.. you see we’re still in the same place.. more or less.

And just a we bit further up the road…

I like the sense of how far the road goes up there.. and then the mood of the leaves and the light.. and all that. 

And this is where I started getting into exploring color in the digital darkroom, in a slightly different sorta direction:

And a different angle on the same fallen tree: 

And then just up the road, just a little bit.

And this is more or less at the end of this little walk of ours:

So that’s the main of our little walk, right? 

With that, I leave you… Want more? My flickr photo stream can be found at flickr.com/photos/mattsearles and.. the photo set from this hike can be found here… with much bigger versions of these pics.. which kinda helps.. in many cases.

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