Red Letter Day

June 24, 2012

Versoix, Switzerland, 2012

Yesterday was a Red letter day. A multitude of errands were accomplished, fun was had, clothes were bought, household goods were donated, even a spontaneous romantic evening walk on the lake was had! See photo above.

This literally never happens. We must be getting the hang of this expat thing. I'll try not to focus on the fact that this is occurring as we are heading for the door, coat in hand and car keys out. We've got less than six weeks until we repatriate back home.

Today was not so great, but I'll keep my focus on yesterday's awesomeness. I suppose it seems even better now that there is such a contrast. See Ali's rant about today here.

More Low Hanging Fruit

May 25, 2012

Maconnex, France, 2012

A little sunset action to get things started off. We're moving into lightning season here, so there are thunderheads about, even if there isn't actually any lightning today. Here, at least.

Trees and Field and Mountains at Sunset

March 5, 2012

Trees and Field and Mountains at Sunset

France (2012)

Sunset

March 3, 2012

Tree branches at sunset

Switzerland (2012)

I'm still struggling with finding my photographic vision, what it is that I see for my photography. Perhaps it will be a long time before I find that, but it is discouraging at times.

Sunset

January 15, 2012

This picture goes back to last June. I was motivated to wade through all the pictures I took of this picture by the idea of playing around with it in LR4 beta. It was pretty fun.

Nevada Sunset

Carson City, NV (2011)

I had taken a similar photo on a different day when the sunset wasn't so dramatic, but the trees and hill still really said something to me:

Sunset over Toiyabe

Picking that second picture was much easier, the situation was pretty static, so I framed a couple of pictures, pressed the shutter and was done. That was it.

The next day there were some clouds, I headed out, stood there, and literally took over 100 pictures. I just kept shooting, and the clouds and light kept changing. It was great! When I got back to my computer, I had a ton of pictures to pic through, and they all looked good, just a little different. So which one do I pick? That would be why I haven't put up a picture of it yet. That, and the whole "don't over do the sunsets (or flowers) thing". Sunsets are great, everyone loves sunsets, but it does get a little boring when all you see is pictures of sunsets. So I try to only do a couple a year. That is, put pictures up. I make pictures of sunsets and sunrises as often as I can! But only I get to see those....

Enjoy that top picture, it'll be a while before I put up another sunset...

An afternoon walk in the winter

January 4, 2012

Just went for a nice walk in the afternoon, past the neighboring dairy farm. While the sun was up, it wasn't too bad, but when it started to go down it got cold and breezy pretty quick.

An Array of Trees

France (2012)

The end of the field

France (2012)

Fence Row

France (2012)

Ornamental Grasses I

France (2012)

Ornamental Grasses II

France (2012)

I got pretty excited about these last two, the sun was getting very low, probably even partly behind the Jura, so about 10 degrees above the "real" horizon, and the light was coming through these grasses so nice. I got a couple of successful pictures, and a few that were obviously ruined by my haste. The sun was fading fast!

Oh, and on a technical note, I finally went ahead and blew off my sensor with the rocket blower thing, there was a HUGE chunk of dust in the middle that must have collected some smaller buddy dust, and the shadow was ridiculous! I healed these in the shots I put up on flickr a few days ago, and they're totally gone now.