Last week I spent the day off exploring Maudslay State Park equipped with only a micro lens, wide angle lens, my Nikon, my trusty Pentax Super ME, a Snapple Peach Tea, and iPod shuffle full of metal. If you haven’t traveled through the woods listening to Colony of Birchmen by Mastodon, you haven’t lived. I heard the area was supposedly haunted so I figured some photographs would be necessary. There were some interesting finds but since it was an 80 degree day at about 2:00 in the afternoon, It was a great place to hide from the chaos of the every day. I ended up at a bay area, the only problem was getting down the cliff that was at a 95 degree angle. I managed to make it down to the tiny, isolated part of paradise just as the sun went down a little. Feeling like i needed to be grounded to the earth I took my shoes off, tossed my socks and stood in the water for a while. You could say I was in somewhat of a medicative meditative state for a while, trying to shake the negative energy. Definitely what I needed on a sun-filled day off. As for the photos that were taken, It was just as much an exploration and it was an experimentation. The results were as follows: