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It has finally become obvious to me that if I am going to post any wintry photos, they will have to come from the archives. It definately feels like winter today (-5°F, -20°C), but very little snow this winter. Good for travel-bad for photo ops.
Busy day chasing storms in the Oklahoma panhandle! :) this was taken just east of Goodwell, Oklahoma
It seems like you only get these kinds of evenings in the Fall. On and off chilly rain during the day but as the cold front passes, the clouds break apart with magical light right at sunset. Taken in Goose Island Park, La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
The old barn and silo no longer serve the purpose they were built for. But at the end of a hot summer day, they are still standing straight and proud reminding us of a rural Iowa lifestyle and economy that used to be (and that I am old enough to remember).
Recently, and I apologize for not remembering who mentioned this, but I was asked if I'd seen trucks with the fangs grill, like the one in one of the horror movies. I do see them once in awhile and think they're stupid and create a bad public image. Aggresive driving is stupid, and doubly so by truckers. Imagine being involved in an accident with a fang grill cover on your truck. Not a good look in court.
I took this picture from my truck while I was parked at our Pacific WA drop yard behind the Freightliner dealership.
Still crazy busy with work. Picked up this morning at 2:30 AM in SoCal and will deliver Sunday at 1 AM in Boise Idaho. No rest for the wicked, but more good news pay wise. Getting a little more than 10 percent per mile pay increase beginning July 1st. With historic low unemployment trucking companies are doing all they can to keep their drivers. Oh, also beginning in July getting hourly paid for all time spent getting loaded and unloaded. Right now we don't get paid the first hour, and some companies don't pay until after the second hour. (Local drivers usually get paid hourly, but long haul drivers have traditionally been paid only for miles driven.)
Oh, and here's a link to my truck. Some have asked to see a picture of it.
A bit late but I did not manage to post it on the day! After the midday lunch on New Year's day we went for a walk along the bastions around Valletta. I couldn't help but take a photo of the setting sun.
Edited in Gimp 2.8 using Advanced Tone Mapping - 5% blur, 75% opacity blurred layer, 75% opacity merged layer, 5 copies of merged layer.
My dad would have been 100 last week had he lived on past 59. A strange thought as I never got to see him as and old man. So much of my life he never got to share, including my children and my love of photography which he also loved. Boy would he have loved the digital age. Much more forgiving of all the mistakes that are laid bare in our old Polaroid and slide images!
As I have gotten older, I can see so much of his mother in me. Those Eastern European genes seem to have expressed themselves later in life.
I like to think he lives on in every sunrise and sunset.
This is the only sunset I attempted while in Far North Queensland. Exhaustion sets in early so that my Pjs and me have an early date every night ;-)
There were several other horses on the far side of the hill, but I'm glad this pretty white and black Appaloosa chose to be by itself up on the ridge. HFF
We have been hosting one of Miss Lily's friends she met at Uni in the UK. The timing hasn't been great as Miss had a thesis due and exams. On Sunday, he had to put up with the old farts while she studied and we took him to the place close to my heart to show him our Victorian Coast line- Phillip Island. It was safe to say he was impressed.
This was taken at Kilcunda, just upon sunset and I leached the last bit of light by sitting the camera on the steps railing to get a longer exposure. It was a stormy day but we were lucky with the weather.
There is alot of talk on social media about the role of the vagus nerve and it's use in helping with mood and anxiety. The vagus nerve acts as a communication pathway between the brain and the body, influencing mood, stress responses, and even the immune system.
I think if I could go for a walk along the beach everyday, I would be able to resent my vegus nerve to something more approaching calm.
A shot walking back from Temple Bay, with the cliffs, and storm clouds beyond, reflected in the wet sand.
The mighty Cul Mor taken from the cottage with my telephoto. This is a magnificent mountain that often gets overlooked because of the spectacular shapes of Stac Pollaidh and Suilven, but it is often more photogenic as it seems to attract amazing clouds! This was no exception, I called it Dracula, a favourite reggae track by the mighty Upsetters, because to me , I can see a winged bat flying off to the left of picture!!!!! or was it madness?
The long west coast of Lewis, with its stunning rock formations, sea stacks, caves, natural arches, small, hidden beaches and majestic, booming waves crashing in from the Atlantic Ocean is a photographer's dream. Sunrise, Sunset, high noon, or any time of day, there is always something to catch the eye and train a camera lens on.
Bangsaen sea front faces in the perfect direction for sunsets! Bangsaen Speed Festival, Bangsaen Beach. Photo: Keith Mulcahy
The rains in 2019 had lingered well till November, and it was on such a cloudy November day that I decided to visit Uttan beach on a whim to try some beach landscapes. Well, I took the public transport mostly, so by the time I reached there, it was already close to sunset. The tide was coming in, and it was a bit difficult to gauge the advancement of water, given that I had been to the place for my very first time.
When I was looking for composition, a young couple was sitting on the farthest rocks seen in this photo. Also, the water was still beyond these rocks. So I took another shot. But by the time I came back to this spot in less than 10 minutes, the tide had advanced quite a bit and as such, the couple had to abandon their spot. Moreover, the incoming waves had created a nice flower-like pattern around this first rock. This was a dream foreground, and so I set up my tripod as quickly as possible, composed the frame, and took this shot. The setting Sun peeking from clouds provided the beautiful coppery reflections in the sand.
In the quietness of dusk on a cool spring evening an elongated dairy barn stretches from the dim past into an era now when few people can recall its significance to a long forgotten family full of life and promise.
The original farm family who marveled at the smell of newly cut lumber for their magnificent barn and gloried in the cautious steps of milk cows who made their initial entry into their new home are long passed. It’s a good probability even their aging adult children are now vainly trying to describe to their own grandchildren the exquisite memories of growing up on the farm while the young ones impatiently sneak glances at a Tik Tok video on their iPad while waiting for yet another of their grandparent’s stories of an unrecognizable epoch of time to end.
In our younger days the importance of what we were doing on a daily basis overwhelmed our perspective of time and focus. Everything going on around us was evaluated only in how it affected our lives and the importance of what we were involved in made both the past and the future dim in importance.
For those of us who are now old, gray and who walk haltingly, the insult to our spirit is not the failings of our bodies so much as it is the sense of the lost significance to others of who we were and the part we played in life. Many times even those who follow us in our own family line don’t find our younger lives of much interest.
We find comfort now in talking with other older folks for we find in them kindred spirits that need few words to explain and share about a world we once shared that is no more.
(Photographed near North Branch, MN)