Portraiture Practice

Picture of the kids

Winter walk at Willow Tree park

We took the kids on a walk today. I brought along my new 50mm f/1.8 lens to take some pictures:

I wonder what she's telling him:

First snow of winter

Jason and I decided that last year's snowshoeing went so well that we would try it again. I found a good looking hike online. We met up around 8:30am.

After a while, we found an abandoned mine shaft. The pipe was used to pump water out the mine. How deep is the shaft?

Jason commited the catastrophic error of plunging his pole through the opening in the front of his snowshoe. I didn't get any pictures of the resulting fall.

On we went:

Eventually we got to the "Bowling Rocks" plateau:

After a while we took a brief detour to check out one of Harriman's shelters. There was a group of about 15 people inside:

From there we rejoined the trail, but for about 100 yards we were on virgin snow:

The trail took us up to the top of Hogencamp Mountain:

Here's a picture of us over Lake Skannatati, at the end of our hike:

After the hike, I took a picture of Harriman's "Church in the Wilderness":

By the time I got home, I felt really awful. Turns out I had Strep Throat, at by night's end I had a temperature of 103.5.

Not fun, but the hike was great!