Stonewall Jackson at Sunset

On Friday evening, I chased a storm front and setting sun out to Manassas National Battlefield Park and managed to get some silhouettes of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial against the orange light of early evening. Thanks for stopping by.

Golden Waves

Staying with the abstract theme from yesterday, here is one from the DC area. It has taken me some time to get my head around abstract images. But I have come to enjoy them and have started to find them all over the place. For an abstract image, you don't really need to know "what it is." Abstracts are more about the response, the questioning, form, color or texture.

To that end, I will not reveal anything about what this image is but will provide details in tomorrow's blog entry. In the mean time, you can get some information from the link below.

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San Francisco de Asis

The Church of San Francisco de Asis in Ranchos de Taos is one of the most photographed adobe churches in New Mexico. I have seen pictures of it done by the heavyweights of photography, such as Ansel Adams. So when we went to visit my mother in law, who live only a few miles from the church, I was determined to try to find something that was different.

I got up very early in the morning and was there just as the light was hitting the church. Beautiful. I have a lot of pictures that I was pleased with that morning. Here is the first. I really like it because it presents a view I had seen done only one other time. I felt that this was unique and different in that the statute and bell towers were lit but the main front of the church was left in shadow. I think this helps to separate the statue and to give a nice outline to the church itself.

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