Calm Photos

Earlier this week I traveled out to a place I consider to be the true home of my creative spirit - Hocking Hills, Ohio. I was asked to photograph a few portraits at the Inn at Cedar Falls as well as do some follow-up shooting of a massage therapist at work within the Inn’s new spa. There was also a couple of other reasons for my early week, two-day trip. One pertains to my upcoming move and the other was to see if all the hot, dry days of what seemed to be the never ending summer of 2007 had completely ruined any hope for a colorful autumn in Hocking Hills. It was the first summer that I know of whereby the streams and waterfalls in the gorges were nearly completely dry from about early May all the way through September. I was sure that the lack of rain would cause most of the Maple, Oak, Dogwood and Beech trees to simply go from green to brown.

I was pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong.

So wrong that in fact what I discovered was one of the best autumn displays of color I’ve seen put on within the hills and hollows of Hocking County. Not only that, but the steady rainfall of this past week brought the streams and waterfalls back to glorious life, once again.