2 posts tagged “bear lake”
The conversation then seg-wayed to wilderness and nature, and they said a lot of things that really apply to my parks project. It was (and this is a horrible paraphrase; I'm going to need to go back and give that part of the podcast a second listen) said that some people are scared to go into nature or the wilderness. There is a lot of unpredictability and unknown in nature, and people, in my opinion, and as stated in the podcast, are scared of what they can't control and what they don't understand. So as it applies to my project, some people go to parks to stay away from the uncontrollable nature and go to a "safe" nature.
It all needs some more thinking and stewing to get my thoughts on the matter organized well enough to incorporate into my ever evolving artist statement, but it was all very interesting. I think anyone who is into the outdoors should give this one a listen. I just tried to dig it up on their website, but I didn't see the episode there, but it can be found on Itunes. Just search for Backpacking Light, and it's the episode entitled Journey on the Wild Coast: Survival Risks and is episode number 27.
I just got back home fro m my reunion at Bear Lake. As usual, it was a lot of fun. The weather was much more stormy than it usually is, but that was alright. All the clouds made some good photographs. I borrowed my brother's digital camera, and went out and made a lot of photographs (I made a lot more that can be seen here under the photos section on the right). Here are some favorites:
I think I spent just as much time photographing or correcting the photographs as I did out swimming and playing on the lake. It felt really good to spend so much time looking through a lens, or in this case, looking at an LCD screen. I'm getting my "photographic confidence" back, and starting to look at the world and think photographically again. Not that I ever really stopped, but it's much more conscientious and deliberate now. I drove up through Logan, and drove past the art building, and got real excited and kept thinking: "I'll be there in a year!" I'm getting real excited about going to grad school. I don't know if I regret or appreciate me having taken so much time off between undergrad and grad school. So far, all the reasons for appreciating spending so much time out of academia outweigh any regrets.
Anyways, about the reunion itself: it was really fun to see old relatives whom I haven't seen in a year or more. And, probably most of all, it was awesome to hang out with my immediate family and reminisce about our childhood, and other past reunions.
I was almost sprayed by a skunk the first night. I went down to the beach that evening to do some yoga, and saw something on the sand that looked like a lantern. The beach was empty besides myself, so I went to pick it up, but as I got closer, it started hissing and jumping back, and I realized it was a skunk, and I slowly backed away. After that, I went and found a spot to lay out my mat, and do my session, but it was pretty unrelaxing, worrying about the skunk the whole time.
The mosquitoes were much worse this year than I ever remember them being. We were all eaten alive, especially the little ones.
About two weeks ago, I stumbled upon a website called My Art Space. It is a site somewhat similar to Photo Eye, though no where near as prestigious. I joined, and have just uploaded a gallery of the images from Bear Lake. You can see it here.
