I know this photo is posted well before the fall season. I had this up for sale as a print prior to changing things with my photo print store. Because of that I kept it up and it is also a favorite photo that I have taken. A couple others I did take down but will be back later in the year. Onto the backstory. I feel like there should be a counter for how many times I have said ‘backstory’ in my blogs ha ha. I took this photo in early November 2018. There is a park system that goes through Wyomissing, PA. I have walked through there before and just loved it. I felt centered. I felt peace. For someone that deals with anxiety and depression, finding that can be hard. Prior to this day, I was feeling really stressed out and overwhelmed with what was going on personally. I just felt the need to walk through here. Leaves were turning their fall colors and I wanted to capture that somehow. I brought my camera with me and took a bunch of photos while walking through. The last time I was there, I only walked so far and then turned back around. The way the trail went, it seemed like I would be walking into someone’s backyard, and I wasn’t sure about it, so I turned around. Ever since that day I had wished I had gone farther. But this I time I did, and my assumptions were completely wrong ha ha. I finished going through the rest of the Stone House section of it. I put it like that because main streets break up the park system into three parts. When we went to leave, we drove down Old Wyomissing Road and there was the bridge going over the creek. Goes to show most of us don’t get out as much as we should anymore. You don’t even know what is out there to go walking through and see. We are always inside, and faces attached to devices that we no longer see the beauty of just being outside. Not going to be that person that harps on technology. This is not that kind of blog ha ha. Anyway, I got out of the car and took this photo. Let me tell you, I felt like such a jerk. All of these people were out walking, enjoying the area and here I was getting out of a car to take a photo. Can you imagine how that appeared? I still laugh about it to this day.
The editing process really just brought the picture to life. It’s one of my favorite photos. I just made the colors vibrant and lightened up the dark areas because in the original file, the colors were a bit dark and muted. This was taken before I really understood aperture, ISO, and other camera settings that would make editing easier. Especially the manual settings that seemed too intimidating at the time to mess with ha ha. There are a couple more photos from this day that will be coming up soon. And looking back there are a few more that I want to dive back into editing and make better and who knows maybe they may make an appearance too. Hope you enjoyed this one. I’m not going to lie. It took me a long time to sit down and write. Not because of the story but my heart just wasn’t into writing or creating much of anything the past couple weeks. And I’m not going to put out some half-assed blog just to put a blog out there. Next week, there won’t be a blog like this. Depending on when I get proofs back, it might just be announcing new wave of prints that will be available. I’m hoping that is the case anyway. See y’all soon.
Go after your dreams. Whatever they may be.
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