I love Lake Nicol. I love the Lake Nicol Spillway. I love the water. I love the rocks. I love the trees. I love the retro sign (ten points and a kiss to whoever can tell me what that building is). I love hiking and climbing and getting dirty which, if you know me, is ridiculous, because I generally prefer being clean, very clean. Let's face it, I am an indoorsy girl, so I will be the first one to admit my surprise when I discovered I like hiking. I don't even mind wearing ugly shoes while I do it. GASP, I know!
Lake Nicol is in Northport, Alabama. In my mind it's close to the middle of no where but someone more familiar with the area could possibly correct me on this one. I know how to get there (thanks Richard Hebert!) and that is all. It's a bit of a climb down to the spillway but this is where I want to be, kind of all the time. A road is perched high above the spillway, just by the damn, and the cement walls of the supports are covered in the most colorful and interesting graffiti. The angles of the road and supports create the most amazing shadows when the sun is shining. I think this is one of the things I love the most about Lake Nicol, it's never the same view twice. Everything there is constantly changing, moving, and evolving. Nothing is static.
Every time I visit I find myself noticing the tiniest things. I even made a few nature friends last time. A nice lady bug posed on a branch for me and a spider had spun the most beautiful web for me to photograph! Not to sound like a corn dog but I felt really blessed to have the opportunity to photograph that spiderweb. It was so delicate and fragile and beautiful and there it was, just hanging out between two branches, waiting for me. I wonder who else got to see it?
Even though the lighting makes it tough to shoot there, I love doing sessions at Lake Nicol. My latest engagement session with Nikki and Andrew was there and we had such a great time! Some of us (there were three of us and I was not one of them...you do the math:) even got to splash around in the water. There's just something about Lake Nicol that just brings out the happy!
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