Another shot from my mad dash down into Southern Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas in hopes of catching some Fall colors on these amazing cypress trees before heading home from my trip. Hoping that all of you stay safe this Thanksgiving. My two elderly in laws aren't coming for the first time in years as we reached a joint decision to err on the safe side. This whole Covid thing sucks and I can't wait for it to be over. In the mean time, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
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Covid 19 has definitely created many challenges for me this year including having to move all of my college courses online for the year here in California. While this requirement has caused more than a few headaches for me, it has also provided a unique opportunity. Since all of my classes are now online, I am able to continue to teach regardless of where I am…as long as I have my laptop with me and reliable wifi.
So last month, I took my laptop, packed up the car, and headed off to visit my sister and her family in Arkansas. For 2.5 weeks, I shot forests and waterfalls throughout the Ozarks before venturing further down the state to the Ouachita National Forest and finally further south to the swamps of Southern Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. I had a fantastic time shooting in all sorts of weather (lots of rain and thunderstorms) with leaves changing from the Northern part of the state in Bentonville on towards the South by the time I left.
While I shot some of the swamps in the South on my own, I did meet up with Greg Boratyn toward the end of my trip and together we rented a canoe and explored some of the great Cypress forests in and around Louisiana while we were down there. We also took a couple of boat tours and were fascinated to learn how lanes were cut in these swamps during the late 1800’s to allow the steam ships to travel from town to town as some the areas were far too swampy for roads. No alligators on this trip since the temperatures dipped into the low 40’s when I was there. (They do something called “brumation” when it gets cold?)
Finally, a huge thank you to David Thompson who posted the first Autumn In The Bayou shots I had ever seen. I had no idea that cypress trees changed color in the Fall and probably wouldn’t have thought of visiting the great swamps of the Southern US at all until I came across some of his galleries on his website a couple of years ago.
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First of all, I need to apologize for being absent from Flickr for so long...again. I naively thought that I would have nothing but time after I retired, but I am now finding myself scrambling to catch up from my back to back trips this Fall. I did manage to find time to re-launch my YouTube channel and the first episode of my epic Fall color road trip from California to Alaska and back down to the San Juans just went live today. If you have the time, please feel free to check out the video and say hi on YouTube at the link below. :)
Following the massive road trip, I hopped on a plane to Munich and spent another two weeks shooting around the alps. I was just starting to dig out of my photo editing when my buddy Eric Stein suggested that we head down to Texas and Louisianna to shoot some Cypress trees. It turned out that we were too late to catch the orange needles on the trees this year as they changed much earlier due to a cold snap. But on the bright side, the temperature plummeted into the TWENTIES while we were down there, and as we loaded the canoe into the swamp last November, thick clouds of mist blanketed the shore. We could only see a few feet in front of us as we set off at 6:30 each morning.
Eventually the sun rose just high enough to break through the mist and we shot like crazy for a couple of hours before we set off for Ihop to warm up. We both agreed we would try again next year but we will most likely head down there a couple of weeks earlier, just to be safe.
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