Scenes of Vermont Blog

Copyright 2006 Andy Richards

The nights are suddenly cool, the days sunny and crisp.  Corn and beans are turning yellow-brown in the fields.  While the trees are still mostly green, leaves are falling in my yard, and around the “stressed” fringes, there is “Fall foliage.”  The air has that fresh, but slightly musky, “Fall” smell to it.  Farmers in cash-crop-land are knee-deep in the harvest.  Fall is here, and with it, Fall, photography! This is just the kind of weather that gets my “photographic juices” flowing.  And there can be no better place to flex your photographic “muscles” than Vermont!

This is the time of the year that people flock to New England.  Its also the time of the year that the foliage sites and bloggers get busy, and the nightly newscasters  include foliage conditions in their reportage.

For my entire life, September-October has been my favorite time of the year.  On my own LightCentric Photography Blog, my current topic is gearing up for fall photography, and speaks of how I plan for a trip, “dust off the gear,” and some tips for Fall photography travel.  It also contains some of my favorite examples of unique fall photographs.  There are also some great Vermont Photography tips from renowned photographer, Arnold John Kaplan on the SOV photography forum.  Some of Arnold’s famous Vermont Photography can be seen on the new Kaplan Gallery and on his own section of the photos page of Foliage Vermont.

Copyright 2006 Andy Richards

4 years ago, in 2005, I came to the Foliage Vermont site, looking for accurate, up to date information about conditions in Vermont. I was delighted to discover not only a number of “in-the-know” resident individuals, but several fellow photographers, who shared quest for knowledge of conditions and places.  In the years that followed my late-summer registration on the forum, Foliage Vermont’s owner has graciously hosted a Vermont photography forum as well.  There, you can find a number of permanent threads dealing with great photographic locations in Vermont, as well as discussion, tips and general conversation about photography in general.

Maple trees, mountains, mountain streams, lakes and waterfalls abound throughout the state, making it truly one of nature’s great natural photographic studios.  Quaint, New England Villages with white church steeples and town meeting halls; pastoral farm scenes; and numerous covered bridges make great photographic subjects of man’s interaction with nature.

October will soon be here and with it, arguably the best time and place to be outdoors with camera in hand–Vermont in its Fall splendor.