After a very long break from hiking I finally made it back to Shenandoah National Park. Some photographers say one should pre-visualize your shots. So I had in mind mountain vistas like the first two shots below. In my 11 mile trek I went to a waterfall Barb and I had seen three years ago (that's Barb's picture with the great flow of water) but what I saw was the fourth picture. The whole hike was in woods like shown in picture 5 and so the mountain vista shots had to wait until I was back in the car. So while I had pre-visualized vistas what I got on the hike was mushrooms, bugs and wild flowers. I think being receptive to what is presented is as valuable as pre visualizing....
