Another trip to Acadia?
Tomorrow I’ll be heading down to the MDI/Schoodic area (again). It’s become a standby for any time I need to get away from campus and relax for a day. I’m electing to completely skip Geocaching on this trip to just completely relax and enjoy the scenery; I also want to take lots of pictures with my new 256 MB CompactFlash card and A60.
I’ve wondered if these trips do me any good, and if going to a different place would be better. Coincidentally, Caroline and I were talking to our professor about photography a little today in our psych class, and she said something that really made sense: she’s moved past the “shoot everything, no matter how well it’s composed” to the “artsy” stage. I see Acadia as sort of a study; my pictures, I think, reflect how I understand the place now. I think I’ve made four or five photography trips down there since last summer, and each has been better than the last. (That would actually make a really great comparison series.) This time, though, I hope that I don’t continue the trend of breaking digital cameras at Schoodic.
(As a side note, I like going down there in part because three of my top five or six favorite places are there: Schoodic Point, Otter Point, and Bass Harbor Light).
