“Two aging friends hike southwards on the ATC Trail” by Severin Sorensen, 4/28/23 using MidJourney AI.

Prompt: Two hikers ages 55 and 60 on the ATC trail in West Virginia, backpacking, each with long beards, from the long hike, heading south. It is morning, sun rising, mist of dew in the air, the scene is hopeful, optimistic, joyful. photo realistic. 4k

I love the great outdoors as does my friend John. He recently shared with me that he had a wonderful hike on the ATC trail. This brought back memories of when I lived in Maryland and I was a Boy Scout Master for a Troop of young men and we regularly hiked the ATC trail.

So for fun, and to illustrate the power of visual AI, I imagined with John recently what it might look like if we were to take a hike together on the trail and have someone take a photo of us after a few months of hiking southward from Maine down to West Virginia on the ATC trail.

“Two aging friends hike southwards on the ATC Trail” by Severin Sorensen, copyright © 2023 by Severin Sorensen.