text: Over the course of the next decade, I took vacation trips to many beautiful places, each providing a different type of learning experience for various photographic techniques.<br /> <br /> Colorado gave me a chance to photograph vast mountain ranges, rapidly flowing mountain streams, and old ghost towns. Pennsylvania let me set up my tripod in the streams of the Poconos and practice my waterfall photography.<br /> <br /> An excursion around Lake Michigan gave me the opportunity to photograph sunsets over the lake and lighthouses in the fog. A trip around central Wisconsin took me to old mills and covered bridges, where I tried to capture the feeling of days gone by.