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Image Title: A Motorcycle, Route 2, and Camel’s Hump Location: Williston, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy Project: Things I Saw Photo Galleries – A 365 Project Consecutive Day Count: 950
A Motorcycle, Route 2, and Camel's Hump (click for larger view)
Description: I was driving down route 2 in Williston, Vermont and I had to pull out my camera and get this shot of the person driving the motorcycle with Camel’s Hump sitting prominently in the background.
I must admit that I have been exploiting the lomography look. This particular photograph was digitally converted to black and white and on top of that the lomo effect was applied. In the context of the larger project (shooting one photograph every single day) 950 photographs lined up on a wall would expose a small chronological grouping of similar photo attributes (via the lomo filter). I have used this filter five times in the past seven days. I can’t help it. In my opinion, the look creates mystery, and a level of intensity for what could have previously been considered an average photograph. And I am certain that there are many of you who disagree, or even have issues with using software filters to manipulate photographs at all. I understand.
Okay, rambling….that’s what happens when you have been up for an hour and a half drinking coffee and it’s only 5:00am. It’s the weekend! Who has time to sleep?
Image Title: Lake Champlain From Camels Hump Time Stamp: 6:46am Location: West Bolton, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy Project: Things I Saw Photo Galleries – A 365 Project Consecutive Day Count: 873
Lake Champlain From Camels Hump (click for larger view)
Description: I truely love the reward of hiking the Burrows Trail to the summit of Camels Hump in Huntington, Vermont. This photo was taken from the summit looking out towards Lake Champlain and the Burlington, Vermont area (I think). This was not my first trip up Camels Hump.
Below are more black and white photographs from the same hike.
Hiking Up Camels Hump (click for larger view)
Camels Hump (click for larger view)
Camels Hump Summit Marker (click for larger view)
Image Title: Camel’s Hump Sunset From A Plane Time Stamp: 6:20am Location: Over Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy Project: Things I Saw Photo Galleries – A 365 Project Consecutive Day Count: 847
Camel's Hump Sunset From A Plane (click for larger view)
Image Title: Snow-Capped Camel’s Hump Time Stamp: 4:46am Location: Williston?, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy
Snow-Capped Camel's Hump
Description: October 16, 2009 and the summit of Camel’s Hump is clearly snow-covered. Makes me wonder if this will be an incredible season for skiing and riding in Vermont? Fingers are crossed…..This photograph was taken from a pull off of River Road. I am not exactly sure which town this spot is in but I am thinking that it must be Williston, VT.
About the project: The ‘Things I Saw’ photography project began January 7, 2008. Since then I have shot, edited and posted one photograph per day – every day. As of October 01, 2009 I had taken a total of 22109 images, 634 of them made it to the Things I Saw photo gallery. Take a look at all of Things I Saw photo galleries here.
Image Title: Camel’s Hump Time Stamp: 4:42pm Location: Williston, Vermont Photographer: Michael McKennedy
Camel's Hump (click for larger view)
Description: Peak foliage in Vermont always gets me for a photograph. This one was taken while driving South on route 89, right before the Richmond exit. It has been run through a tilt-shift filter.
I met a friend of mine at the Burrows Trail parking area in Huntington (at Camel’s Hump State Park off of Camel’s Hump road) at about 6:20pm. We set out on the trail with every intention of making it to the summit by 7:15 to catch sunset. We must have passed thirty other hikers coming down as we hiked the well defined and maintained trail. We took our time (probably because our backpacks were heavy and we were feeling it) and arrived at Vermont’s 3rd highest undeveloped peak sometime around 7:45pm.
About forty-five minutes later I send a text message to the third member of our group. It read, ‘close?’ – he relied, ‘Yup’. (Yes, there is great mobile connectivity, starts around have way up the trail.) I then told him that we are on the South East side down in a crevice trying to avoid the bone-chilling winds. He arrived a few minutes later. All three of us stood in awe as the moon looped full above our heads.
We were not alone at the summit. People trickled in and out up until the last of them left at 1:15am (a group of what sounded like college kids were up there being very loud – they kept me up for an extra hour) . The three of us slept upon the rocks (very careful to not disturb the fragile mountain vegetation) in our sleeping bags under a moon that illuminated the entire ten acres as if it were day.
I woke at 5:00am, grabbed my camera, put on an extra layer of clothes and headed back up to the peak. The pinks were starting to show over New York and Lake Champlain. The next hour and a half was spent gazing out as the sun poked out from the land displaying an amazing spectrum of colour.
Here are some of the photographs from this hiking trip.
For more information about hiking the Burrows Trail to Camel’s Hump summit view this blog post.
Full Moon From Camels Hump (click for larger view)
Camel's Hump At Night (click for larger view)
Camel's Hump Waking View (click for larger view)
Camel's Hump Sunrise (click for larger view)
Camel's Hump Clouds (click for larger view)
Take a look at more photographs from Camels Hump here.
