Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Cape Cod was on my list of “sure, why not” places to visit. I’m generally pretty happy to be near water. It was very calm and quiet in the off-season and a nice place to relax for a few days. A family friend offered her vacation home’s driveway for us to stay in, so we were centrally located to visit the entire peninsula.
Sandwich Marsh, MA
We stayed out near here the night before going to the cape; felt like a place where “no overnight parking” signs are gonna go up any day now.
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
I checked out this place on ebird.org the night before, and someone had logged dozens of birds that day. So we go the next day and…nothing! A few shorebirds and some Blue Herons out on the tidal basin, but nothing in the trees or generally close enough to photograph. Birding has been so weird this fall. Anyway, here’s a nice plant and a crab! Literally the only things I photographed!
White Cedar Swamp Trail & Marconi Beach
The actual White Cedar swamp was cool but not particularly photogenic, but I got these nice photos of the trail leading up to the swamp. I think I’ve finally unlocked the forest photography skill, which is basically, “don’t shoot too much of it”. A rare case where you should miss the forest for the trees?
Did we constantly refer to Marconi Beach as Macaroni Beach? You fool, of course we did.
Wellfleet photo walk
I took my old adapted 50mm Minolta lens around the area we were staying, just for a change of pace. I don’t often use a fixed focal length lens, nor do I often shoot buildings or man-made structures, so it was nice to wander around and practice both. I think this a good little photo set that captures the mood of a vacation town in the off-season.
