 the last few hours of summer. So I thought I'd come back out here to the park one last time. See if there's an image or two that I can make for this zine project. Not a lot of pressure to find something today. I'm just gonna kind of stroll along and take it all in. If something does jump out at me, I'll make a photograph. I'm revisiting a spot I was just last time I was here. I noticed this vine crossing. Last time I was here the wind was blowing too much and the leaves weren't holding still enough. I think I'm going to be able to pull this shot off today. I just kind of like the obvious X. Got a little more leaf around it. Feels like the season. Nice transition photo for the season. I have a nice detail shot. Today the air is a little calmer so I'm able to be able to make the photograph. Whether it makes it in the zine, I don't know. I definitely wanted to have another look at that and see if it was something that was going to work for the photograph. I've got to admit I'm a little bit sad the stays come. That means I'm at the end of this project. I think I'm going to miss coming out here to this park with a purpose to make photographs. I always wish there was more time and this project is no exception. I just wish I had another month. Don't feel like I got out here enough. I think that's, I knew that that would be the case. I knew that no matter how often I came out I'd always feel like I don't have enough photos or I don't have good enough photos. I could have drugged this on for years but I made this project have an end for a reason. I wanted to just have a project that was confined to a season. So what I got is what I got. It's a bit of a Steve climb getting up here on the backside of the park. It's nice and quiet up here though. Not nearly as many sightseers. Kind of have it to myself. I don't anticipate this video being very long today. I don't really anticipate finding a lot of photographs. This last week I started laying out the zine and really it would be really nice to get one or two more shots. I'm kind of on that line where it could be a 32 page zine. If I don't get something today to fill in one of the slots then it might end up being a 28 page which means I'd have to give something up. So I'd rather find a couple nice detail shots today or something that I can fit into the 32 page layout. There's not a lot of pressure today to find photos. Since the last time I've been out here things haven't changed that much. I'm not really missing a big change. So whatever I get is just going to be adding to similar photographs. I'm purposely not photographing a bunch of the same types of photos. I've got plenty of forest shots, trees coming out, using the vertical element. I've got plenty of shots along the creek now. Now it's just kind of more enjoying the day just reflecting on this last summer. Reflecting on how this has probably been one of the most productive summers I've had in a long time when it comes to nature photography. It's a good time to start thinking what do I want to do next. Speaking of the future, this is going to be my last zine for a while. This is my sixth zine and I've decided to take a break. I've decided to focus on other things in photography and I'm not going to be working on any more zine projects in the foreseeable future. The thing about zines is for me they're really not a money-making venture. I make no money when I make zines. I don't even break even. Everyone I've done usually costs me money or I might come close to breaking even but I do them because I love them. I do them because I want to see my images in print and I can share them that way. So for me it's been worth the effort and the cost to put these zines together. But there are some things I need to focus on in the future that I'm kind of excited about and I won't get into a lot of that today. I'm just going to be putting more of my efforts into the print, the photographic print and coming up with projects that are based around that. Maybe I do a series of prints. I do a collection of prints and like I said I don't want to go into that too much today. We'll talk about that more in the future but I'm pretty excited about where I'm going with my photography. So that's another reason today is kind of a bittersweet because this is probably going to be my last zine project for quite a while. So I'm just kind of taking it all in today and just kind of just enjoy being out in nature. This is just a nice day, a nice way to end this summer long project. I'm not even sure why this scene strikes me as a photograph. I just like the way this vine maple arches into the frame across these vertical elements in the background. I'm going to make some photographs here because when something kind of grabs your attention sometimes it's good to listen to that voice and take the photograph. I doubt this photograph will make it in the zine but I really do like how the trail kind of cuts through the foliage and then we've got this tree that's fallen across the trail. The bomber is with my 20, there's a little bit too much guy. I don't know how distracting that's going to be. I'll have to kind of look at it when I edit it see if it's too distracting and it might be something I use for something else. This kind of struck me as an interesting photograph. I might try one with my 50. But then with my 50 I've got to get back quite a ways. I really need about 35 right now. You always need another focal length. 35 would be perfect right now. That'll probably be my next lens. I'm looking at a 35 f2 one of the D lenses from Nikon. The older lens but it's supposed to be pretty good. There are times where the jump between 20 and 50 is there's just too much of a jump. I'm not a real big zoom lens person. I mean it'd probably make more sense just to buy a wide-angle zoom but I really like working with primes and all I really need is a 35 millimeter to kind of fit in between. We'll see. This won't be the last video in this making a zine series because I'm still going to have to do a reveal to show how the project turned out. So I've still got one more to do. So all that's left to do now is just write an introduction and if there's a couple shots from this outing add those in and strip it off to the printer. So I'm hoping I can get that done within the next week and we'll have something to show you hopefully in about a month or sooner. This channel's five-year anniversary is coming up next month. I can't believe it. I've had this channel that long. So I'll be putting together a little five-year retrospective where we've been on this channel. That'll be a upcoming video. I want to keep an eye out for that. Well almost back to the car. This was a great way to end this zine project. Just a nice relaxing day walking through the park. I don't know what I've got for photos today, probably not a whole lot, but that's all right. Today was just about saying goodbye. So I'm going to end today's video right here. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.