![Starting on the Ole Ranger Trail](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4908720006_eabbe4c000.jpg)
I’m not traditionally a nature-as-scenery photographer. I prefer animals and humans. But on a recent hike through a trail in Papatsco State Park, I took my camera along and captured some of the lightly forested trail.
![Tree Destruction for Fame](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4908134121_d4dbab1fc6.jpg)
![Canopy](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4908728716_9bc4baf7bd.jpg)
![Fallen Tree](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4908135687_99d930b80e.jpg)
![Ruins the NATURE Trail](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4908137291_4aaefd77e8.jpg)
![Around the Bend](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4908731906_468306448b.jpg)
I definitely prefer for photographs like these to have animals. It looks so empty and desolate. But this may just be a consequence of being a suburbanite raised on the Discovery channel. It’d be pretty boring if they didn’t cut all the footage they had of jungles and savannahs devoid of animals.
![The Straight and Narrow](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4908733630_cd8ef938ca.jpg)