An Update to a 2010 Blog
As many of you know, we are on the road for five workshops and 12-ish thousand miles over 11 weeks. We are lucky to have our house well cared for in our absence, as we have a terrific team of house sitters and assistants. And while we’re on the road, I have been reviewing some of our bad-weather shots over the past year.
The end of this trip, before we actually head home again, will see us in northern New Hampshire for New England Fall Foliage. I love fall in New England, having grown up there, and the colors are amazing, just as they will be here in Colorado where we are now.
The day we went to this location, we were presented with some gorgeous fog that glowed with the sunrise. Blue skies? Who needs’em!
We were in South Carolina for Charleston, a Southern Belle this particular morning, when the clouds in the dawn sky lit up and radiated a beautiful, soft glow over everything.
Lone trees and stormy skies have always appealed to me. Put them together, and I am a very happy photographer! This cedar, bent by the winds, stood wind-blown in the late afternoon light as a storm rolled in.
Night skies are another subject that I love. As a long-time tar (sailor), I have always enjoyed looking up at the sky and the myriad of stars there. Picking out the various constellations that I know, far fewer than I might wish, I never get bored. In Zion National Park, we love this scene. It is ever changing, but the Milky Way usually does not disappoint us…
And fog has always intrigued me. It can be what sailors call “pea soup,” or it can be eerie with light finding a way through it. When we were in Acadia last spring, this scene offered itself to us. Blue skies? ‘Twarn’t none!
Back to night skies, as I pen this well after dark, we were in Bryce National Park, and I saw the potential in this scene. If you could have witnessed the position I was in to make the shot, you would not have thought it possible. For me, it was well worth the contortions.
So remember the next time the weather isn’t all that yummy, put on your McIntosh and wellies, and put your camera in a rain-proof jacket, if only a couple of large, Ziploc bags, and go out photographing. Who knows what wonderful images you might discover. Blue skies, who needs’em!
Next time? Who knows!
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