Springtime utterly transforms the forest. The colors shift from browns to greens, and the silence is shattered by the sounds of birds, insects, and frogs. The air is redolent with the scents of a hundred species of flower. It’s an amazing change, and it happens quite rapidly.

This spring I was fortunate enough to do two backpacking trips, nine days apart. I had taken some pictures on the first trip, and I though it would be fun to take a new set of the same shots on the second trip, just to compare.

I tried to frame the subjects in roughly the same way, and take the pictures at roughly the same time of day. For the most part I succeeded, though I used portrait for one set and landscape for the other – oops!

Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

Before

I got lucky with the light that night.

After

Nine days later there was a lot more shade!

Before

Let me know if you can zoom this.

After

An amazing mount of green!

You can see more about that first trip here.