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Climb up the bluffs overlooking Clachtoll Beach in Assynt and this is the view you get as a reward. The water really was this azure-green color. It's quite a spectacular place.
This was shot using my 70-200 mm lens and zoomed out to 175 mm. That lens is not the easiest thing to carry when climbing small cliffs, but the effort was worthwhile I think.
Cliff Design Awards today...this one won first place. "I want to thank all the photons that participated"
Petrochelidon pyrrhonata,
Avila Beach, California
It looks like war, but I think it began with mating, while others nearby were collecting grass clippings for the mud nests. During the grass- or mud-collecting, there is much wing fluttering, and it seems like the "excitement" of one activity blends into the excitement of the other. But here there are actually three birds, with the one on top attacking what I believe is the male in the pair below it. It all happens very fast in swallow world.
Lots of the cliffs look similar to this one where it appears that a large section of rock must have fallen into the ocean in one go. This can make you feel slightly nervous as the boat goes in under the rock ledges. However the presence of limestone stalitites, showing that the cliffs have been exposed for a long time, provides some comfort.
Cedar Cliff Mountain, taken from the backporch of one of our homeowner's custom home. What a wonderful view from their deck. During the winter when the leaves have fallen, they can also see Bear Lake. Barbara and I stopped by to visit with them and we all went to the Lake Club for "Italian Night" dinner. Barbara is full Italian and I knew she would enjoy the special theme night.
I think this is limestone forming the cliffs of Deadhorse Gulch, the little tributary canyon of Glenwood Canyon where the Hanging Lake Trail runs. One of these days, I'm going to go back up there with a good camera, though the place is always absurdly busy when the weather's nice. I'll probably have to wait for another winter trip to Colorado.
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Despite my absolute love for stormchasing, lightning and severe weather...a simple drive out to the Superstition Mountains before dawn when there is only a bit of rainy clouds in the forecast...can be just as beautiful and inspiring.
I love the awesomeness of a lightning storm. The adrenaline when I'm trying to get to a good spot for a tripod setup.
The morning I took this photograph wasn't like that. It was relaxing. Lazy. Rolling clouds, some rain in the distance...but nothing thrilling or exciting. Yet I ended up having just as much fun as I usually do. I don't believe I have ever been out on the Apache Trail before as the sun comes up. It was magical.
With a day predicted to have rain, you don't even know for sure if the drive out there will reward you with a sunrise because the clouds could definitely block out any light. But not on this day. The clouds kind of rolled in after the sun was up...and the light and shadows were magnificent.
On a total side topic...this was my first day out with the 5D Mark II. I only had a 2gb card because the others I ordered hadn't arrived yet. The RAW size is around 21-25mb, so the card could only hold around 60 images. Since most of the time I shoot six brackets per scene...I only had roughly 10 total shots I could take.
So of course I took my laptop with so I could dump photos to it as the morning progressed. Solution to the problem.
And of course I left the USB cable at home...so I couldn't do anything. Problem remained.
I have to say...it ended up being an interesting experiment. What brackets were actually not worth keeping in exchange for a new scene I just found? Was the new scene better or worse than what I already had? Was I going to cry because I deleted one road shot for another?
I was a nice exercise in self-control. Usually we just fire off millions of shots during a photowalk or excursion like this (and I'm not saying we shouldn't, I certainly wont stop), but it did teach me to take a bit of pause and make absolutely certain this was a shot I wanted.
ON YET ANOTHER NOTE, check out my guest blog post over on Justin Balog's blog, Light as Magic! Thanks for asking me Justin to be a part of your Out the Front Door series...was a blast to write!
(exif: canon eos 5d mark ii, 50mm 1.4, iso100, f/10)