~Postwork in PS: minor hue adjustments.~ --------------------------------------------------This is certainly not one of my better images, but I mentioned this bench in "The Lake 01" story and I wanted to share the find with you. This place is saturated with splendor, but it is hard to capture. How do you condense an environment that challenges all natural senses, and stirs the soul, into a 5x7. As photographers, I guess that is the goal, and what seperates the great from the everyday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes I need an escape from my 12' x 12' dorm room. Being the epitimy of the broke college student, I have to find a source of either free or very inexpensive entertainment. Last semester I discovered what has now been deemed "The Lake." The Lake is actually a series of lakes where many spend their afternoons fishing. Although I love fishing, I usually go to the Lake to take a walk and clear my head. Walking trails lead off in every direction. A stroll is always full of wildlife: alligators, snakes, hoot owls. It is an escape from the pressures, problems, and hustles of life. -------------------I pushed my way through an over grown trail winding through the swamp. The trail opened up on the bank of the lake where a bench overlooked the water. What I find. I like to sit and watch the wildlife. It puts beauty back into the meaning of life.-------------------------------- Where is your place of escape? Where do you go when you need to just get away for a while? Let's share with one another. Maybe you even have a pic of it. I would love to hear about it.