Photo:Engage

  “ We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. ”  - Robert Adams     Not every visit to a special place will have great photographic conditions, but the subject deserves an image, does it not? Here I spent a few hours walking in the amazing forest and swamp on the raised wooden boardwalk through the epic Congaree National Park, enjoying every minute in the subdued light. As I wrote in my post on February 25, 2023...      The largest intact copse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the southeastern United States, Congaree National Park lets you walk into the past, to a time before the mass deforestation of most of our country’s native forests. This we can do largely through the efforts of one dedicated man, journalist Harry Hampton, who lobbied relentlessly to save this 11,000 acre forest from the lumber companies.  'Congaree Bald Cypress'      Congaree National Park is named f...

  “ I think of photography like therapy. ”  - Harry Gruyaert      I doubt there's ever been a time I didn't feel refreshed after spending some time in the woods. Tired? Sure. Dirty? Almost always! Hungry and thirsty? Of course. But always better. Yes, always better. Although there are those moments you wonder why you're there. As I quoted from one of my favorite authors in my post from January 7, 2023...      “There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.” - Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods Clicking on the im...