9.11.13 : crater lake.

 What can I say about Crater Lake that wouldn’t be better expressed through photos? Not much. If I hadn’t spent the first part of the day chasing waterfalls on the way up, I still wouldn’t have left Crater Lake until after dark. There were so many different things to see and explore along the shore and I would’ve loved to have planned ahead to camp there for a night, but you need a permit and the spots are only hike-in, which I wasn’t prepared for.

I got there right at lunchtime, so I found a shady nook with a great view and enjoyed my packed lunch while basking in the immensity of the lake before slowly making my way around it. It really is an impressive sight, and even with the wide-angle lens my uncle lent me for the day, I still feel I was barely able to do it justice.

juxtaposition.

I did some freelance work today for Harding, which involved taking some portraits of a couple in Laurel, MD. I showed up at their house not knowing if there would be a good place nearby to take photos, but lucky for me, they live in a development that surrounds an old quarry that filled up with water after they went too far. We walked down to a dock for the photos and I snapped a few of just the lake while they talked a little about the area. The lake covers what used to be hillside, so there's some creepy sunken trees and undergrowth peering up from beneath the clear water. I liked the odd combination of this beautiful thing of nature surrounded by this man-made development.