Melissa Greenawalt

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Tiny Moments

I tend to lean towards a "big picture" view of the world...until there's a camera in my hands. So come with me to find all the details hidden like jewels in the corners of the world. Go ahead: get down low, scoot on your belly to get as close to the architecture of the world as you can.
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So, do you ever go hiking and see something on the way up, but it's just not right, and so do you really, really hope you'll remember it on the way back down, when the light is more favorable?<br /> <br /> I remembered this.<br /> <br /> Seriously, stick me in a city, and all the streets and buildings look the same to me; let me loose in the woods and I remember the configuration of every last root and rock and log.
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So, do you ever go hiking and see something on the way up, but it's just not right, and so do you really, really hope you'll remember it on the way back down, when the light is more favorable?

I remembered this.

Seriously, stick me in a city, and all the streets and buildings look the same to me; let me loose in the woods and I remember the configuration of every last root and rock and log.

  • Close up of chicory is almost candy-like, as though it were dusted with sugar.
  • So, do you ever go hiking and see something on the way up, but it's just not right, and so do you really, really hope you'll remember it on the way back down, when the light is more favorable?<br /> <br /> I remembered this.<br /> <br /> Seriously, stick me in a city, and all the streets and buildings look the same to me; let me loose in the woods and I remember the configuration of every last root and rock and log.
  • A raft of fall color settles into a patch of sunlight along the Pemi River, Plymouth, NH.
  • I take my camera on a lot of adventures: biking, hiking, skiing, kayaking…I want others to see what I do when I’m “out there,” in my world, and if it inspires one other person to get outdoors…well, mission accomplished. I was kayaking, and, like the above photo, this one was an unplanned detail—I’d wanted fog that day. What I got was gold and light in the grass. I particularly like this photograph because it’s a tiny detail that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. I’m not a detail person in my daily life, but put a camera in my hands, and I find them all, somehow.
  • Photographic trick du jour: make the tiny things look huge. I really enjoy the shift in perspective this gives. These little diapensia flowers are only about the size of a nickel (Mount Lincoln in the background is significantly larger...), and they're one of the first alpine flowers to bloom. I actually did a little botany geek dance when I got to the ridge.
  • Lupine leaves with morning dew in the sunshine; who said flowers have a monopoly on showiness?
  • The first of the autumn leaves waits for the others high above. Campton, NH.
  • Tightrope walk on a half-submerged log brought me closer to this convergence of textures on the shore of Squam, out on Five Finger Point.
  • Moss + water + camera...it was bound to be magic.
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