Fall Trip to Soergel Orchards

By Aamin Withrow-Davis, second-year graduate student in the Digital Media program

On the first day of fall, a few friends and I went to Soergel Orchards as one of our scheduled “family” (pictured) trips. In 1850, the small family-owned farm established itself. It originally sold apples wholesale; however, over the years, it has expanded its merchandise to include wine and baked goods as well as deli foods.

I took this as a chance to use this family outing as a means to work on my photography skills. This was a great idea since Soergel Orchards has a great variety of scenes to capture. Soergel’s has a butterfly feeding facility, a small section that contains a pygmy goat, two pigs, two sheep, and two miniature horses. Soergel’s has a gift shop that houses a live beehive which uses a tunnel system to get bees from outside to inside a display case inside the gift shop.

There were several scenes that, once I saw them, I knew that I was going to capture. I knew what photographs I wanted to take: the artificial waterfall, varieties of flowers, and butterflies. I wanted to stray away from photographs that I knew were going to be photographs that most people would take: the apple orchard, the sunflower field and the pumpkin patch.

Make sure to continue to following along. Soon, I will be posting the pictures that I took and detail what I like about them and what could I have done better.