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In order to create an authentically powerful life, you need to align your personality with your soul. ~ GZ and there it was..few years later and the alignment has happened in front of my eyes. Just like that..
The crescent moon finds a gap in the clouds as a magnificent sunset lights up over the darkly looming heights of the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. My youngest son requested a trip to the Dunes in a rented RV for his birthday present a couple of years ago when this photo was made. Bless him for having the prescience to get us all here for this moment.
Back to the current day, a number of wildfires are roiling the typically blue Colorado skies with smoke that is almost as pretty at sunset as the clouds you see here. The downside, of course, is the loss of forest, life, and livelihood. Today the humidity finally increased and it began to rain in some small measure. After the latest conflagration leaped over the Continental Divide, perhaps the forest on the eastern side of Rocky Mountain National Park will not burn too severely, but who can be sure. It is troubling to know that years like this are but the harbinger of what is to come if we do not act quickly to reduce our economic dependence on fossil fuels. Forests have a hard time absorbing carbon from the atmosphere when they are incinerated and become a source of carbon themselves.
Low Fog Sunset at Golden Gate Bridge, taken from small airplane.
The sunset burn w/low fog was predicted by Yiupai sunrise/sunset forecast service.
Self portrait in one of the car parks of the University of Tasmania.
I love these trees - at night the dominance of the bright light is hard to adjust to - I took a few different angles and found that flaring and rotten exposure were big issues. Then I thought i'd work with the flare and while I was setting up a man walked through the frame. I thought - yep this shot needs a peron in it, so self timer on and in I walked.
"Placating replies to curious eyes
Deepen no oceans, broaden no one’s sky.
With frontiers belittled, invention dies.
Life is shared mystery, let us ally.”~N. Parkison
Sunrise against the massive Ship's Prow at 12,000ft, Chasm Lake, Colorado.
Not nearly as exciting or as rare as the alignments at Salk Institute or Scripps Pier but way less stressful !
Amazing symmetry and balance as this flock of Canada geese sweep under the waning crescent moon in the morning sky.
The crescent moon rising after sunset at The Bungle Bungles (or more correctly, Purnululu National Park) was the perfect way to cap off a day of exploring the amazing rock formations that are found in this remote part of Australia.
I discovered by accident that over the past few days many of my contacts images have not been appearing in my feed, so apologies to those of you I've missed. I'm trying to back track as I can.
A seagull sitting on a flagpole in front of the sun setting over Saint-Quay-Portrieux.
Tried different exposures but went with this silhouette version in the end.
"For beautiful eyes,
look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips,
speak only words of kindness;
and for poise,
walk with the knowledge
that you are never alone. "
~Audrey Hepburn~
It's Sliders Sunday!
... and what could be more fun that playing with a pic from my daughter, modeling her mask which I sent off earlier this week to thank her for some hard to find items she had shipped to me via the internet!
She actually would LOVE to be a professional personal shopper, which is something she didn't get from me! So I'm thrilled this is a win win for both of us!
This shot focuses on a quiet, fleeting intersection of two butterflies on a bloom.
In monochrome, the intricate, patterned details of their wings become graphic elements, standing out sharply against the deep, dark background.
It reminds me that even in a world obsessed with structural noise and industrial decay, there exists this fragile, rhythmic elegance that moves at a completely different speed.
Some water drop photography. This shot was quite unusual, all in a row but the bottom drop was a strange shape!
Almost perfect alignment and symmetry. There are about 25 of those up-squirts in the fountain.
Civic Center, Santa Clara, California.
Obviously Paddy realsies that he should be going with the 'flow' of the strata. Behind looking back at the ridgeline we'd just traversed
Three of my favorite shots from the planetary alignment on February 20, 2015. Pigeon Point Lighthouse is in the foreground. The advancing fog bank caused the composition to change, with the planets and moon ducking in and out of sight. Finally, it swallowed them all.
Sony A7S, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm, f/2.8, 1 second, ISO12,800
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