As I became more and more comfortable with my Nikon, I started to play around with my own eye for photographs as well. I wouldn't say I felt 100% sure about what I was doing with my camera, but I was starting to recognize lines and frames more out of natural pieces of the landscape. I was learning more about how to focus on particular objects in the photo, and how to find the shot I wanted.
Williams Woods was one of the warmer days we had had all semester, but it had still been bitterly cold for most of the week in Burlington. As we came to the clearing of the large farm field on the edge of the wooded property, I felt such relief. This class was an opportunity during the week to get outside and not succumb to cabin fever, and this field was my first sight of open expanse I had seen in three months. I may have been a bit dramatic, but I kept taking gasping breaths of the fresh air as we stood on the outer boundary of the field. It felt so good to be confronted with such a vast open space when I was so used to stuffy classrooms and my small apartment in town. I'm not entirely sure why I did it, but I flipped my camera upside down to see what it might look like had I edited it on my computer later. The way the trees grew on the other side of the field made the horizon look warped, and to this day that photo makes me dizzy.
Alas, I managed to lose my sunglasses this day. I wore them in hopes of encountering sun, but as the day wore on, they migrated to the top of my head, tucked behind my ears. It started to rain at one point, so I hung them from a side pocket of my jacket, and that was the last I ever saw of them. RIP Sunglasses.
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