Neighbour-woods

My township, Montgomery Township, is mostly farmland and woodland and streams and hiking trails. It's rural, with narrow country roads without sidewalks, lots of ditches and foxes and wild turkey in the backyard, and it's not unusual to see a farm tractor on the one-lane roadway. However, because of our proximity to New York City and Philadelphia, the area is considered suburban.

I've shared some of the photographs I've captured while finding solace in the wooded areas around my neighbourhood. I live in a townhouse community, a planned neighbourhood that is an excellent example of the uniformity of the New Jersey suburbs[^1]. Our neighbourhood is private, shared space. All of the wooded areas around the neighbourhood are private and collectively owned by the housing association of which all homeowners are voting members.

The last time I was in the woods, I shot a 36 exposure roll of Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100 colour reversal film. I still haven’t mailed out the roll for development but wanted to share some photographs from yesterday of what I experience when I am forest bathing.

20 April, 2020 | Day 29 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
20 April, 2020 | Day 29 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
20 April, 2020 | Day 29 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
20 April, 2020 | Day 29 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
20 April, 2020 | Day 29 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
Monday 20 April, 2020 | Day 29 | FujiFilm X-T2 | XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR | f/8.0 | ISO 2000

Isolation Photo Project, Day 16

Jeff's Isolation Photo Project is all about capturing at least one photograph a day without leaving your backyard. For the project, I have photographed around Downton Princeton, in the nearby forest hiking trails, inside my house, but I have not yet photographed my backyard. Until now.

Until now, my backyard had been mostly devoid of anything I consider attractive. I live in a planned community of townhomes where everything is designed to be “vanilla”. Our backyard is shared, community space, with several other units. There is a fence that separates our community from an estate and some woods. We are fortunate in that our section of townhomes has more forests than others. Right along the fence is one or two of the original trees from before the houses were built. Each year I have noticed a patch of spring beauties, claytonia Virginia, appear. Up until now, there was nothing all week, but today, the "beauties" have bloomed.

Spring Beauty, claytonia virginica | 7 April, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 16 mm
Spring Beauty, claytonia virginica | 7 April, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR @ 55 mm
Submitted as part of the 100DaysToOffload project.

Isolation Photo Project, Day 6

I think this is the 6th day of Jeff's Isolation Photo Project. The last few days, we had fantastic weather, and I was able to leave my immediate neighbour and enjoy many of the nature trails for which my town is known. But today, the weather changed back to the cold, damp and dreary weather typical for March in New Jersey. Other than a short trip to a local farmers market, Norz Hill Farm & Market, to support the farmers, we stayed indoors. I watched a lot of Netflix and Apple TV+.

For this set of images, I switched to an ACROS+R based film simulation recipe.

mug on table near window
Emerson mug | 28 March, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
Kitchen | 28 March, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
Norz Hill Farm & Market | 28 March, 2020 | FujiFilm X-T2 | Fujinon XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
Submitted as part of the 100DaysToOffload project.