The World Through my Lens

I always try to take advantage of escaping the city every time I get to visit my family’s vacation home in Vermont. With the woods as my literal backyard, I’ve spent hours walking through the trees, fighting off mosquitos and spiders. In the summer, I could hear the croaks of frogs, and always keep my eye out for any that may be sitting by the river banks. In the winter, the sun glimmers off of the snow covered forest floor, and icicles hang off of the branches of pine trees.

I have to say though, the highlight of Vermont comes out at night, when the sky fills with stars. If the time is right, there are a few hours after the sun has set but before the moon has risen where it is pitch black out. With the naked eye, you can make out some rough patches of “clouds” forming an arch across the star covered sky. Exposing this with the camera reveals the Milky Way Galaxy, something that’s impossible to see in light-polluted areas like Boston and New York. Even in Vermont, it’s not perfect, and the goal is to one day get to an unobscured area like Canada or the western U.S. to capture even more of it.