Bursting

I love going on a photography jaunt with another person, if it's the right person.

Nan is definitely one of those right people. She should be getting home to Colorado about now, after nearly a week at our house. It was awesome, and so productive, but I am SO wiped out. Two more hours of work and then I am done for the week. I am so excited about going home and crawling into bed. It's pathetic. The exhaustion was totally worthwhile to have such a fun time with a good friend! :)

Last weekend a friend and her family hosted us up in their Vermont house. We had an awesome time. The foliage was at its peak, and the weather was perfect. Two days in Vermont, and then one day at the coast.

This photo is from the second day in Vermont. I saw my first beavers there, but they were mere specks in the water far below. I didn't get anything even close to worthwhile on my camera. However, as we were coming up from the dam, we stopped for some milkweed pods. I was kind of hoping to get some with a gorgeous fall foliage background, but no luck. Instead, Nan found this milkweed pod just on the verge of bursting open. The seeds were aligned like little scales, as if the pods were vessels for small curled fish.

I was in the process of turning them to black and white photos.... I selected out the seeds because I wanted to filter them differently to the background when doing the conversion. But I liked the seeds so much in color, that in the end I decided to keep them that way.
More shots tonight. Maybe some actual fall foliage this time!