IMG_9936.CR2, Originally uploaded by evancparker.

For some reason, I love hiking around abandoned farmland. It must be my hippie upbringing, but my favorite hike (Susquahannah State Park) is also around the same type environment. I must have spend half an hour walking around an old abandoned barn on the Merkle property.

Speaking of which, I should really do Susquahannah again. I don’t think I have been there since I got the new camera.

Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unclevanya/sets/…5020/

CRW_2991, Originally uploaded by evancparker.

Not much of a hike to and from, but the payoff (the falls themselves) was amazing. I’ve never had much chance to play around with shutter speed near water before, and that in itself was a lot of fun. Hokie, but fun.

South River Falls
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unclevanya/sets/…0293/

Still a great class, but another puzzling assignment. We are supposed to describe our view of the “public character” of four notable people … but we don’t have any real background on what character is, or what elements make up someone’s public character. Interesting exercise, though I kind of wish it was coming *after* a class discussion, as opposed to in preparation for it.

Assignment: Examples of Public Character
20060202_Character.pdf