Wassy and I have been eyeing a quick trip up to the Adirondack’s along some of the scenic roads for purposes of practicing photography and hopefully getting some cool landscape shots. The weather has been uncooperative recently, being totally overcast with lousy light. But yesterday, we lucked out and got a day with very changeable conditions. We got the sun peeking out from some clouds one minute and snow the next.

We decided to chance it and head north to see what we could see. And we ended up at Moose River which was a really cool area and had some great little spots to photograph, including a little nature trail thing (although kinda snowy at the moment). We think it’d be cool to, maybe next year outfit ourselves better for wandering through the wilderness in the winter and head down one of the trails for a bit to see what there is to be seen.

My shots turned out all right. I got a couple of good cloud type pictures. The clouds were really cool looking yesterday, so we lucked out on that one. Most of my shots, however, turned out a bit dark and I forgot to play with the white balance settings as I was shooting, which is something I’ll need to keep in mind in the future.

My favorite shot was totally accidental as it’s waaaaay darker than what I was actually trying to capture. But it turned a scene that was pretty cool looking into an ominous, foreboding scene, which turned out looking fairly cool all things considered:

Not Quite What I Wanted

That’s moose river, looking from the route 28 bridge, just before the apocalypse, apparently.

This one here is way more true to life (taken just north of Moose River) is probably my favorite of the cloud pictures I took:

Partly Cloudy

The biggest thing I need to work on, I think, is trying to brighten things up a bit without getting them over exposed. I also need to figure out how to capture a very cool looking bright sky without totally drowning out the detail of the things on the ground.