Pigeon Lake, Photography Camp

Pigeon Lake was a great experience! I learned a lot about my camera, and basic photography. The class was all about Nature Photography, which is one of my favorites. Or maybe one of the only styles of photography i have experience in, and have really had an oppurtunity to explore.

The first couple of days, were kind of on your own, it was really pretty much full on camp style, not what i expected. Camp style as in yes, bell rings for brekfast at 8am, 12pm and 5pm. Line outside the cafeteria door to get in, lunch tables, etc. It was all in good fun though. The camp wasn't quit what i had expected, not much there. it was right on a small-ish lake. almost could see around the whole thing. Other than that, not to many photo opps so the first couple days were pretty slow. I stayed in a cabin with 3 other girls. Lots of Bugs, bathrooms couple cabins down. It was nice to get away for a bit, even though it was not luxurious whatso ever! This is a picture the Lake was on, i believe that was a morning/ sunrise picture, though often it was really foggy to get a good shot.

One of our first main adventures was hiking down a couple miles from camp to a "bog". For those who dont know a bog is just like a swampy, wet land where you walk on water level mostly, but its covered by mossy swampy buggy-ness. I wore flipflops, i wasn't to prepared. It was interesting, how many people can say they literally walked through a bog? I guess its not something to boast about too much. :) Anyway, not to much wildlife, and i wasnt toooo thrilled with the photo opps and such. and i stepped into a bee hiv planted on the ground, and got stung 3 times within probably 10 seconds. i havent gotten stung by a bee since i was a kid. but it was a nice little hike/work out :) Here are some pictures from it!

The next couple days we took some trips, Gooseberry falls, and many other state parks, also we went to Duluth for some night photography. We had some pretty good times, got lost on our way home at 2am and we're driving for hours dodging deers. We had some drinks up in Duluth that we got at a liquor store, little mini bottles, it was 30% because of thirsty thursday, so we drank those before going into a nice restaurant. Definition of class, we know. So here are just some pictures from the rest of the trip, im glad i went, got out of my comfort zone a bit, learned a lot and had some fun :)