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As some of you may know, I've been on a mission this summer to get a great sunrise reflection shot from Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. And while I'm not proud of how many failed attempts are behind this morning's wonderful sunrise (and I intentionally didn't keep count), I am pretty sure I ran up to Bear Lake in an attempt for this shot 17 times in the past 6 months. Keep in mind I live 1 hour and 50 minutes away. All this makes the final shot and the fact that mother nature FINALLY cooperated - that much more rewarding. I don't think I would have even taken on this challenge if I'd known how long it would take, but looking back on it, I'm also glad I didn't give up.
In all my failed attempts, I had a chance to think about all the reasons I wasn't happy and insisted on going back again and again and again. So in fun, here are the top 10 reasons I claimed I had to go back:
10. No clouds
9. Too many clouds
8. No clouds over Longs Peak
7. Raining
6. Amazing clouds, but they never lit up
5. Wicked windy
4. Snowing
3. Clouds to the east blocked the early morning sun
2. A couple of people beat me to my spot and blocked both spots I'd scouted
1. The darn lake was still frozen!
In the end, I caved on one of the things I was hoping for in my dream shot. I'd originally hoped for a super calm morning where I could get a detailed reflection of Longs Peak and the glowing clouds. And while I suppose that may be possible someday, I found few calm mornings and besides cool clouds don't tend to hang around on the calm mornings. So with a Neutral Density filter in-hand, I decided I'd smooth out the ripples and go for the glowing color instead of reflected details. This approach seemed to help open the door to finding the more interesting weather.
der Winter ist kurzzeitig zurück und beim Blick aus dem Fenster, dachte ich mir dass mir das garnicht passt und ich keinen Schnee mehr brauche :-(
Dann habe ich den Rolladen unserer Terrasse hochgezogen und meine kleine Ameisen voller Schnee haben mich angelächelt!!!
So ist das Leben! keep smiling
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the winter is briefly back and looking out the window, I thought to myself that this does not suit me at all and I no longer need snow :-(
Then I pulled up the shutter of our terrace and my little ants full of snow smiled at me!!!!
That's life! keep smiling
'I am a song soaked into each bone of your secret body
where the world has not been able to wander.'
- Simon Van Booy
... until your dreams come true!
ODC-No Electricity
One of the things to always have around in a blackout is candles. These are the safe ones that are battery operated so no fire was used in this photo. Keep lots of batteries on hand too!
Just one SB910 in a 60x60 gridded softbox ön camera left in TTL modem, -1FV, and one SB600 ön camera right with snoot, in manual mode at 1/16th of power. Triggered with built in flash through CLS...
loco...........68025
location....Sea Wall
Service.....5Z63 Laira to Crewe
Reason.....Stock for Trans Pennine
Old Dear...Mrs Miggins
Do you believe me if I tell you that we have a lot of snow?!?
Well, not more than usual for Montreal!
Sometimes you really have to take a step back and allow the universe do its thing. I have learnt to not fight it.. to go with the flow, take the ups with the downs and still push through because it will always work out in the end. Stay positive and keep it moving 💕
BTW - Still learning PS and loving the journey, still a long way to go but will keep going
Some of you may remember that in previous years I have occasionally done a "Bokeh Madness" series in December.
I am currently very busy at work (as it's the end of the year), and I needed something to cheer me up ... and so we are back to Bokeh Madness : )
This probably won't be a series, but a little bokeh now and then can't hurt, don't you think (although it's not really bokeh in the true sense of the word, here, rather out of focus multi-coloured fairy lights ; ))
Have a wonderful St. Nicholas Day tomorrow 🌟
[ taken with the manual Meyer-Optik Görlitz Oreston 50mm f1.8 - wide open - on a Pentax K-70 ]
Never said we’d be friends
Trying to keep myself away from you
‘Cause you’re bad, bad news
With you gone I’m alive
Makes me feel like I took happy pills
And time stands still