Photographers often joke about four of the most popular photography “clichés”: flowers, sunsets, babies, and kittens. My view? There’s a reason those topics are cliché.

I love taking short trips with no particular goal. A couple hours before sunset last night, I set off down Route 2 and tried to find a good pond for a sunset shot. Along the way I visited Hermon Pond and Etna Pond, but neither had the shot I wanted.

I did, however, manage to capture some Queen Anne’s Lace in the evening sun just outside of Hermon Pond:

After checking my DeLorme gazetteer (I never leave home without it), I found myself on the edge of the beautiful Sebasticook Lake in Newport. I reached the lake just in time to snap a few shots of the sun to the west.

Spontaneous trips are fun.