Trilliums at Middlebury

Well, welcome to my new photo blog! This is just an experiment in different ways to show my photography, and talk a little more about how I view the world through my camera. Formatting this thing is completely new to me, so bear with me should there be any drastic changes. 

I'm making my first post about a set I photographed about a month ago, when Vermont was just starting to thaw out from an underwhelming but drawn-out winter. Trilliums are some of my favorite flowers back in Michigan, and for whatever reason it was surprising to me to see them out east as well. I resolved to photograph them, and eventually I had little enough homework I could pretend I had time, so I packed my camera and went down to the woods downhill of my dorm.

All pictures in this entry were taken with an Olympus E-620 and either a Zuiko 70-300 f/4-5,6 or 9-18 f/4-5.6 lens. The difference should be fairly self-evident.









...and may or may not have gotten slightly distracted along the way. There's so much to draw your attention once color has returned to the landscape.














Can anyone else see why these are my favorite flowers? It really is a pity they're endangered, though thankfully still common enough to entice plant-loving photographers. The penultimate photo is, obviously, not a trillium, but a trout lily. If you ever see those mottled leaves (the ones in the foreground and background, not the lumpy one directly beside the flower), take note, they're edible, and delicious!

I came down at sunset, and the idea photo I had in my head was a wide shot of trilliums with the sun behind them. Did I get the shot I wanted? Not sure, but I'm happy with some of the results.




I'm not sure if the color scheme turned out exactly as I wanted it to, but what you see is more or less faithful to what it looked like in real life, so there is that. 

Hope everyone enjoyed this post! I'm obviously very new to the world of blogging, so any comments or advice are welcome! Thank you for visiting!

-Forest

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  1. UnknownMay 27, 2012 at 12:18 PM

    This is great Forest! Of course your photos alone speak volumes, but your voice coming through the text really adds a lot. It's nice to know what you were thinking when you took each picture and what the conditions were like. A great photographer AND a great writer, congratulations!

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