An online journal sharing my interests in photography, nature, coffee life, journaling, fountain pens, spirituality and asking deep questions.
I’ve been playing more with the HDR software to see what I can do with it. This is one image of three exposures, metered and plus and minus one stop. It is only the layered image then back to Lightroom and a tweaking of contrast and tone. One aspect of this is finding the detail in the moon. Hope everyone had a good Christmas season and ate as much as I did. 🙂
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry Thoreau
This is the morning sunrise I was able to see last Tuesday morning when the temperature was below zero.
PS: Here is a link to a good post by Guy Tal, if anyone is interested.
“As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting ones originality. It is a way of life.” Henri Carier-Bresson.
The move to Denver has again allowed me to wander the country roads of the Colorado plains. I find my eyes are scanning for a solitary tree or groups of trees, isolated farms or old homesteads, windmills, the distant horizons, all forms and textures of rolling clouds and of course the Rocky Mountains. While out here I’m free of the noisy city. I can listen to the wind make music with the trees along a creek. I can listen to prairie dogs bark their warning calls. I can enjoy the joyful song of the meadow lark. In the heat of the day I can hear the hypnotic sound of the cicadas. I like being here. I like having my camera with me. This is a way of life.
They opened I70 across Missouri yesterday morning. First time they have closed the interstate from border to border. I hit the road running along with thousands of semis. Spending two days in a hotel was not my idea of a good time. I must admit the hotel was wonderful and even gave me a discount rate on the second night (and no it was not a senior discount). Had a tough time digging my car out and almost could not open my doors due to ice. They did an awesome job cleaning the interstate across Missouri and Kansas. I did find far more cars and trucks buried in ditches than I expected. I finally stopped after 13 hours of driving but only after I had entered Colorado. Spent the night in Burlington, CO and will head to Denver in just a minute and drive straight to the airport. I have some paper work to get started for badges and parking permits then some quick training this evening. I hope to be at my sisters by 9:00 this evening. Oh, I was given a gift last night of watching a beautiful sunset near Lawrence, Kansas. And, it is true, they do have more stars in a Kansas sky. I’m almost home.
This image shows one of my favorite times of the year and day at Arapaho Bend Natural Area.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this “emotion” is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, or stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
An early morning sunrise taken back in 2006 at the Arapaho Bend Natural Area Natural just east of Fort Collins.
I stopped by Lake Loveland with this image in mind. I am standing at a boat launching dock and looking west towards the Rocky Mountains. The taller of the two peaks in the distance are Longs Peak in the park. I was raised just to the south of this image about six blocks. When I was a young kid we would ride our bikes up to the lake and fish for crappie. It’s difficult to see but there are ice fishermen out on the lake.