“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something”
-Federico Fellini

In a few days I will be spending a week in the Adirondacks. The intention is to photograph for the  Bodies of Dirt project in the surrounding Primeval forest areas. According to a book on Ancient Forests, the Adirondacks has one of the largest tracks of first growth or Primeval forest area in New York State. Roughly 300,000 acres. I have been  to some old growth areas in the Catskills recently but am particularly excited by the huge scale that areas in the Saranac Lake region have to offer. The opportunity for silence is another experience i will savor.  Being in a forest area covered with lichen and moss, with a mixture of evergreen and broadleaf woodland seems to dampen sound, everything is brought to a whisper, even the wind. It invites contemplation.