Moon Machine

As I came out of dinner with my parents, I noticed the sun had set, the Moon was out and there was some nice orange light in the sky. I thought "too bad I missed this." But as luck would have it as we pulled out of the parking lot, I noticed these gravel/grain silos right across the street. So I pulled over, rolled down the window and tried to steady my camera against the door in the howling wind (man was it really whipping). It is a bit soft but what do you expect in gale force winds. I took a number of bracketed shots in the hopes of doing some HDRI work, but I really liked how some came out even without it.

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Smoke on the Water

Well in fact it is fog over Lake Louisa at sunset. I was going to pick up the kids from my parents' who leave near the lake and saw this scene. My wife slammed on the brakes, and I went running for the water's edge as I pull off the lens cover and tweaked the camera settings. Full action landscape photography, who knew? Anyway, I managed to get a handful of shots before the light changed completely, and it was gone. Sometimes you plan these things; sometimes you just get damned lucky.

Adobe Sunset

This is of the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM. We happened to walk by just as the sun was setting, and I was able to catch the light in the window. You never know when you might come across something like this so having a camera with you is always key. I now keep a point and shoot in my car just in case.

Sunset Geese Redux

Here is a cropped version of yesterday's post. Here I was looking for images with an image and think this works well. I am not sure which I like more, but it is interesting to find other images within an image that you were not expecting.

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Sunset Geese

Today's and tomorrow's images are going to be a study in looking closely at your images. Often you will find images within images that with judicious cropping can offer different takes on the subject. Today is an image of geese caught in the setting sun. When going through this image, I felt that there was a second, potentially more powerful, image within this one. I will post that tomorrow and am interested in seeing what you think is the stronger image.

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