l.gallier
Timing......and luck.
Yesterday, I got up before Sassy, and decided to cook the breakfast sausage that I picked up the afternoon before at the QFC on my home from work. Also on my breakfast menu was three eggs over easy and some toast. Sassy woke up just as I was getting started and being the wonderful wife she is, ran me out of the kitchen and finished preparing breakfast. She wasn't real excited about the menu I selected but she was a real good sport about it. Food is a gender thing I figure. This afternoon we went grocery shopping together. I wanted to run to the store for some beer and she said she needed some things at the store also, so off we go together. It was a date! I found my beer lickety-split. (It's a well worn path), and the next forty five minutes we were wandering up and down every isle finding pimentos, oystery juice, dry cooking sherry, crab meat, etc, etc. Before we left together I had volunteered to go up by myself and get everything she needed if she made me a list . I had NO idea, when I made that offer, what I was volunteering for. About half way through our shopping I asked, " is that it"? Being the wonderful wife she is she said she could come back tomorrow and get the rest of the things on her list. Not wanting to seem too anxious to get back home and start, getting my Sunday afternoon buzz on, quenching my thirst, I said, "no, that's ok,let's finish getting what you need." When we finally get to the cashier and unloaded everything form the cart onto the conveyor belt to the cash register, I said,"God my, you got a lot of stuff". Sassy said that she usually get's enough for three meals when she goes up to the store. I said, "that would be three cans of chili, shredded cheese, hot dogs, and the buns." ............. It's a gender thing.
After breakfast we headed out the door to the Mt Rainier area. Stopped at NW Trek to get some pictures of animals, hoping that this time of year, there wouldn't be too many family's with loud, out of control, little kids. Nope...... one is too many when you get to be a old sourpuss geriatric and the kid's not your grandchild. After NW Trek we decided to head for the Mt. Rainier National park gates just past Ashford WA to have a late lunch at our favorite little restaurant there, Copper Creek Inn. As we were driving by Alder Lake, (above), I thought about stopping to get some shots of the stumps, but decided to continue on for our late lunch. When we got to the Copper Creek Inn the place was only half full and by the time we got our plates, it was packed full, not to mention the people standing at the door waiting to be seated. I told Sassy, "We got here just in time". The last thing we ordered before we paid the bill was their FAMOUS blackberry pie to go, A whole pie, (gonna have some of that tonight). Instead of going into the park we decided to head back home after we left the restaurant. Not much daylight left. As we drove, I kept looking at the sky hoping we could make it to this spot at Alder Lake before it got dark. It was overcast most of the day. I wasn't expecting any color in the sky so when we got there and encountered this scenario I was out and running as soon as I stopped the car, changed lenses, moved my ball head from my monopod to my tripod, attached my wired shutter release, made sure I had the right ISO and aperture, and set up the exposures for seven bracketed shots. I was frantic that my opportunity would disappear but everything worked out perfect except there was no lag time and I was running. (I hate running). I got a bunch of great, different comps to work on. This is a semi pano. Two shots merged together as a pano. I cropped the left side a bit because of the distortion but am still happy with it.
Crap! Tomorrow's Monday. Got to work to pay for Christmas, and all the other crap I keep getting billed for. Thankful I've got a job.
Have a fantastic week ahead!
Timing......and luck.
Yesterday, I got up before Sassy, and decided to cook the breakfast sausage that I picked up the afternoon before at the QFC on my home from work. Also on my breakfast menu was three eggs over easy and some toast. Sassy woke up just as I was getting started and being the wonderful wife she is, ran me out of the kitchen and finished preparing breakfast. She wasn't real excited about the menu I selected but she was a real good sport about it. Food is a gender thing I figure. This afternoon we went grocery shopping together. I wanted to run to the store for some beer and she said she needed some things at the store also, so off we go together. It was a date! I found my beer lickety-split. (It's a well worn path), and the next forty five minutes we were wandering up and down every isle finding pimentos, oystery juice, dry cooking sherry, crab meat, etc, etc. Before we left together I had volunteered to go up by myself and get everything she needed if she made me a list . I had NO idea, when I made that offer, what I was volunteering for. About half way through our shopping I asked, " is that it"? Being the wonderful wife she is she said she could come back tomorrow and get the rest of the things on her list. Not wanting to seem too anxious to get back home and start, getting my Sunday afternoon buzz on, quenching my thirst, I said, "no, that's ok,let's finish getting what you need." When we finally get to the cashier and unloaded everything form the cart onto the conveyor belt to the cash register, I said,"God my, you got a lot of stuff". Sassy said that she usually get's enough for three meals when she goes up to the store. I said, "that would be three cans of chili, shredded cheese, hot dogs, and the buns." ............. It's a gender thing.
After breakfast we headed out the door to the Mt Rainier area. Stopped at NW Trek to get some pictures of animals, hoping that this time of year, there wouldn't be too many family's with loud, out of control, little kids. Nope...... one is too many when you get to be a old sourpuss geriatric and the kid's not your grandchild. After NW Trek we decided to head for the Mt. Rainier National park gates just past Ashford WA to have a late lunch at our favorite little restaurant there, Copper Creek Inn. As we were driving by Alder Lake, (above), I thought about stopping to get some shots of the stumps, but decided to continue on for our late lunch. When we got to the Copper Creek Inn the place was only half full and by the time we got our plates, it was packed full, not to mention the people standing at the door waiting to be seated. I told Sassy, "We got here just in time". The last thing we ordered before we paid the bill was their FAMOUS blackberry pie to go, A whole pie, (gonna have some of that tonight). Instead of going into the park we decided to head back home after we left the restaurant. Not much daylight left. As we drove, I kept looking at the sky hoping we could make it to this spot at Alder Lake before it got dark. It was overcast most of the day. I wasn't expecting any color in the sky so when we got there and encountered this scenario I was out and running as soon as I stopped the car, changed lenses, moved my ball head from my monopod to my tripod, attached my wired shutter release, made sure I had the right ISO and aperture, and set up the exposures for seven bracketed shots. I was frantic that my opportunity would disappear but everything worked out perfect except there was no lag time and I was running. (I hate running). I got a bunch of great, different comps to work on. This is a semi pano. Two shots merged together as a pano. I cropped the left side a bit because of the distortion but am still happy with it.
Crap! Tomorrow's Monday. Got to work to pay for Christmas, and all the other crap I keep getting billed for. Thankful I've got a job.
Have a fantastic week ahead!