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The evening wasn't looking like it would produce a nice sunset, but all of a sudden: the sky was on fire! I love the reflected color in the potholes!!! I have so many wonderful shots from here ... where to begin???
I've been really enjoying the new Mumford and Sons "Babel" album ... love "Broken Crown!" The song has nothing to do with this image other than the fact that it was the song playing when I roared out of La Jolla after this sunset!
♫ Mumford and Son – "Broken Crown" ♫
Happy Sliders Sunday!!
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Tuesday • October 5, 2010
Spent the entire day driving ... Missouri ... Oklahoma ... Texas Panhandle ... New Mexico. Arrived in Santa Fe just before sunset and spent an enjoyable hour on an empty stretch of highway photographing the sun setting behind the mountains, horses and of course some fences!
We are staying two nights at the El Rey Inn, a motor court built in 1936 on what was originally Rt. 66. We wanted to stay in a place that captures the flavor of this beautiful city! Today, we plan to explore from sunrise to sunset starting off with breakfast at Pasqual's (recommended by the proprietor)! I'll let you know how it was!
Have an awesome Wednesday everyone! Miss ya'll!! :D
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A trip to Negros, the sugar capital of the Philippines. These are remnants of an old port of the place, endless structures in the sea.
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Wednesday • October 20, 2010
I chased the light all the way up to Lake Bluff yesterday morning; and arrived just as the sun started it's ascent from the lake. As I clicked away, I was thinking of Lakeside Park. It doesn't have much to do with this image other than the "Lakeside Park" bit! The title is a bit of lyric from the song ... and who doesn't love a little bit of Rush every now and then; or is it just me getting all nostalgic for some mid 70s jams?
I dedicate this image to a fellow light chaser Heather, aka hms_chic, who rocks the rising and setting of the sun! Check out her sets for both!
“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in the universal beauty.
And notwithstanding the scene is so impressively spiritual, and you seem dissolved in it, yet everything about you is beating with warm, terrestrial, human love, delightfully substantial and familiar.”
— John Muir, The Glacier Meadows of the Sierra
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Thursday • May 20, 2010
Headed out to my favorite sunrise spot this morning just before the sun came up; plenty of time to catch the sun as it rose to just above the horizon.
Photography Tip: Don't wear flip flops when slipping out into the predawn light. The morning dew meant I ended up kicking them off and walking barefoot up the slippery slope to get to this spot!!
Happy Thursday Everyone! Today is Jackie's last full day of High School and tomorrow is her last day! Yahoo!!
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.
I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
The sunsets recently have taken my breath away... I apologize in advance for the stream of sunset photos that is coming! ;)
"There’s simply no real substitute for physical presence.
We delude ourselves when we say otherwise, when we invoke and venerate “quality time,” a shopworn phrase with a debatable promise: that we can plan instances of extraordinary candor, plot episodes of exquisite tenderness, engineer intimacy in an appointed hour.
[…]
But people tend not to operate on cue. At least our moods and emotions don’t. We reach out for help at odd points; we bloom at unpredictable ones. The surest way to see the brightest colors, or the darkest ones, is to be watching and waiting and ready for them.”
⋅—Frank Bruni’s wonderful New York Times essay on the myth of “quality time.”
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Thursday • September 9, 2010
This sunset silhouette was taken with my old film camera in Longboat Key, Florida in 2002. It is one of my all time favorite images form the trip. I have this one framed! The title is from "Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits" soundtrack.
The girls LOVED that CD and this song is by Frente. This song was sung in one classic episode by Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. Jackie would play this song over and over! She sang it with all her heart! We still laugh about it and she still remembers every single word to that song.
These last few posts of mine are really hitting up the nostalgia. I guess I really missed our family vacation this year ... all four of us by the sea ... changes in latitudes ... changes in attitudes (oh hey, another family vacation favorite)!
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"So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Smilers never lose
And frowners never win
So let the sun shine in
Face it with a grin
Open up your heart and let the sun shine in"
Heading off to work (this is hard to get used to) but it is going better than I hoped. Guess I didn't forget how to work after all! I'll catch up to everyone this evening! Have an awesome Thursday everyone!!! :D
... I apologize in advance for bringing you yet another one!
This is #7 in the series {and that doesn't even take into account the ones I posted on Instagram}! If you are interested in seeing the Instagram versions, you can check out my Instagram gallery here: statigr.am/pixelmama I'd love to find out who else is on Instagram!!
As you can see from the SOOC in comments, I slid the heck out of this image. The originals below are the middle & under-exposed images of a 3-bracket set. The over-exposed image was totally blown out. The sky in the under-exposed image of the set is what I was going for in the sky, but the surfers were too dark and not in a good position like the middle exposure image. I started with an image blend, but it was a hand-held bracket shot and it didn't line up at all! Imagine that! *note to self: use tripod for bracketed shots*
To begin my slide, I selected the middle-exposure image and processed using my standard Photoshop edits {levels, H/S, etc.}. I then opened it in RadLab . I really like RadLab with the endless possibilities and tweaking you can do with it.
The final step was a fine-tuning in Nik Viveza. Of all the plug-ins I have, I think I use Viveza the most. The final image looks completely different, doesn't it? Sliding is so much fun!
Hope everyone is having a Marvelous & Happy Sliders Sunday!!
Embarking on an unforgettable journey to the rugged eastern tip of Madeira. ⛰️
The hike across Ponta de São Lourenço is easily one of the most breathtaking experiences on the island. No trees, just raw volcanic landscape, salt-spray air, and views that stretch on forever. It’s a bit of a trek, but every step is worth it for a view like this.
If you go, bring plenty of water and a windbreaker—the Atlantic breeze doesn’t play around! @Visit Madeira
#MadeiraIsland #Exploration #HikingPortugal #PontaDeSaoLourenco #CoastalHiking TravelInspiration AdventureAwaits
11/07/09 – Day 311 of 365
I know I am a sunset/sunrise freak and I certainly collected many shots (probably...no definitely better than this one), but I really do like this one the best as this shot totally sums up the wonderful evening I spent at the Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur with my BFF Pam. I am so glad I was able to treat her to dinner, a beer and this awesome sunset!
I am still mesmerized by this glass of sparkling amber liquid! I want one right now...at that same table!
ETA: Let us all thank Benjamin Franklin for that wonderful quote! Wait...now I just read that maybe Ben didn't say that! Well I don't care who said it, it still remains one of my favorite quotes! And I thank whoever actually said it!
Explore: November 15, 2009: #99
I have only two other images that made it to explore, and until recently, I didn't even know what that even meant! And I find it to be hilarious that of all images, this one was chosen! I am convinced it was the title!