Sugar Hill Experience!

I had the opportunity to venture up to the beautiful (and PURE NEW ENGLAND) town of Sugar Hill the other day! My wife and I with doggies in tow left home at 2:30 am to meet with the sunrise in the lupine fields. It was my very first trip to the town, and my first encounter with the beauty, smell, and presence of wild lupines! Really beautiful, and very much worth the trip.



I learned an important lesson about photography, though...well, I suppose it was a reinforcement more than anything...if you plan on getting a pre-visualized result, plan on scouting your location - better yet, plan on studying it intensively! If you want impromptu images, and the challenge of composing in the dark of the early morning hours, forget about scouting!



Seems simple enough...but it was really interesting to compose something with a virtual blindfold on. I tend to be so much more of a planner and a pre-conceptual photographer, so this was an exercise in discomfort, for sure!

The result of me traveling outside of my comfort zone - a very healthy thing in my opinion - were some interesting first light images. Note, that I plan to get up there for a full few days of exploration soon!