The weather suggested that I would find drama, and the mountain did not disappoint. I wrote about it with images that can be made even larger over on the journal pages.
I remember looking at the sky earlier this evening and I noted that the high clouds on the horizon looked thin. When they are thin we can get great sunsets so I parked the thought and almost forgot.
I was working at my computer downstairs and swiveled around and peeked out the front blinds which are closed and grabbed my camera and ran upstairs for the shots.
Larger image here.
Larger image here.
Today’s photo of the day holds good news and bad news.
The good news is that there are flowers about, and that means that it’s getting warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt.
The bad news is that it’s warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt because that means that just about all of the snow has melted off of the mountain and we are looking at a very dry spring. And a dry spring means few flowers.
After the shot taken yesterday I set my alarm so that I would be up and ready for the moon set today. What surprised me was how far south on the horizon the moon had moved in just one day.
It was all happening in the sky today I guess, at least from the point of view of my cameras.
I only had time to use my cell phone to take this one after walking out from an early Valentines day dinner.
Setting Moon behind Mt. Taylor, New Mexico
Tomorrow I hope to have time to set up my camera before it sets. Hopefully there will be a nice clear sky. Tomorrow there will be 30 more minutes of light that should give more definition to the mountain.
Earlier in the day my wife and I had hiked through this section of woods and I scared up an Elk but did not have my camera ready. In the afternoon I went back for another round of hiking and had my camera out and ready in this same stretch of woods. On my right side I saw 4 mule deer start to move and I figured that they would cross the path in front of me. I had my camera ready and got the shot, but the exposure was a bit dark. I could see the deer standing off to my left and I changed the settings and increased the ISO so that I could maybe get a better shot.
Little did I know that one of them would stop in the light and wait to see what I would do next.
I did what I always do in this kind of case, I keep on shooting, actually holding the camera low because I have an articulating screen and I had tilted it up.
Although you can make out the outline and part of the face of a second deer on the edge of this image, I actually had no idea that I had captured the two of them in the next photo.
This entire little incident reminded me once again of the quote by Pasteur. “In matters of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.”
The first time I hiked, there was no favor, as I was totally unprepared.
The second time, even though I left my big lenses home and only had my hiking camera with me, it still had a sufficient telephoto that enabled me to get the shot. Right time, right place, right equipment and a deer that stopped to pose and then was joined by one of his group. That’s a lot of luck there, but I’ll take what I can get.
Hi folks, Nice to see you watching me.
Today’s photo of the day was actually taken last week, but since I posted a group these images over on my journal I decided that I would add a photo of the day over here as a pointer.
Quote for the day – thrown in as a bonus.
To love beauty is to see light. – Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
The whole story is over at Chihuly in the Desert Garden.
by David Alan
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