Over the weekend I took a walk along a trail I used to run during high school, when I was on the cross-country running team. It was a warm, bright, sun-heated afternoon, and the trail brought me through old orchards and hills and puddly mud patterned with bike tire treads. I hadn’t brought my camera, but the clean magnificence of sky and grass and trees and creek prompted me to use my phone camera (which isn’t very good). The photos all came out looking drab, so I ran them through some digital effects. They won’t impress any photographers, but at least they now suffice as reference photos for those landscape features that attracted me in the first place.
Wide sky, wide grass-scape
Lush green and sparkling water under shade
Clouds beam down, trees reach up
Narrow path goes where?
In one week we leave for Toronto.
love the 2nd & 4th photos! south san jose is so pretty 🙂 i feel like i knew that somewhat growing up, but didn’t FULLY appreciate it til later.
Yeah, same here! And I bet we’ll appreciate it even more after we’ve been out of the country and state for a while. 🙂
yes it was beautiful! All this on the computer is digital anyway. It all is another medium with the light showing through
True. 🙂 I remember being in an illustration class in about 2007 or so, and the instructor was saying he feels like computer illustration has no soul. At the time I sort of agreed with him, but it’s getting more and more impossible to say that when everything is becoming more and more digital!
What a lovely, peaceful place to walk. I’m so enjoying your visual diaries, Lisa.
Thank you, Sherry! Me too. I’m glad I’ve started doing them. Good habit to start building before traveling. 🙂
Wow, these are gorgeous, and that narrow trail is so tempting! I’m such a sucker for things like that, and I’m constantly traipsing off of the main trails here in town, following random squiggly lines through the woods. 😉
I can’t believe you’re leaving in a week!!
Hee, me too!! I would have gone off on that little trail except that I thought it might be private property. 😉 That wouldn’t have stopped some people, but I’m good like that. ;b
I can’t believe it either!!
I love the winding trail – at first visible, then suddenly not: where did it go? How did it become engulfed – by who, by what? I’m thrilled by its snake-like spirit, tracing a graceful path towards the mountains.
Thanks for commenting, Aubrey. It’s inviting, isn’t it? And so narrow it could be anything: a clandestine trail for humans, a major highway for mice, maybe even an accident. Well probably not an accident, but it almost looks it. 🙂
Throw the effects, I think with the phone camera, it is still a good quality! 😉
Thanks, creativeboys! I’m happy with how they came out, since they really speak to the qualities I liked in the landscape. 🙂
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