I’m cheating I suppose, but then who is keeping track of when I post and in what order?
We’ve got house guests from Michigan and have been busy wandering around snapping photos of this and that and there has been little time to get the photos loaded onto the computer, much less edited and posted.
But tonight’s sunset prompted the posting of this first one on October second.
We had been chatting in the back yard and then did our usual move to the front balcony to watch the sun go down in the west. My in-laws were quite impressed with the view and the afterglow that silhouettes Mt. Taylor some 70 or so miles away.
We love the big sky.
I almost missed the show tonight. I’ve been here 3 years and I still have not gotten used to how quickly the sky changes, especially as the sun is setting. I looked, thought that things looked promising, and sat down to watch a bit of TV. In the window behind the TV I saw a faint glow and jumped up and ran for my camera.
Both of these are taken with the long lens, but at least I’ve got something to show for it.
It’s a small slice, but a nice one.
Take an evening and stroll around amongst thousands and thousands of people, just about all of whom are in motion, and throw in the sights and smells of a State Fair and you can imagine how I spent Saturday night.
One can after all, be fashionable in the New Mexico night.
But you have to compete with this
and this
If you can hold onto the contents of your stomach, you can catch the whole entry here.
It’s urban, its nature, only this time it’s in the morning (saturday) and not in the evening. Besides, the sun has now moved so far to the south that it’s light no longer hits the roses in the evening.
So you take what you can get… when you have the time.
Last week I did 8 flights in 7 days, in the following order, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Detroit, Traverse City (drive) then back to Albuquerque.
I don’t have a lot of time to post photos, or even work on them for that matter.
I’ve not posted any from my trip 2 weeks ago to Yosemite, except for the banner photo on the main page of this website.
In these couple of images I ended up with a bonus, invisible to me actually when I took the first images, the smallest drops of water, most probably left over from the substantial amount of rain that we have gotten over the last couple of days. Although it could be dew, I suspect that they are leftovers from the rain.
Since we’ve had so much rain, I figured the mountain would be quite muddy today so I’m working on trip plans for a conference in Hawaii in October.
I just remembered that I wanted to try and shoot the rose from yesterday’s post with a little more time.
This positioning shot shows you how the one rose is the highlight of the bush.
You can also get an idea how dark the background is going to be when the camera is concentrated on the rose.
From this shot it looks like I’ve got time to mess around with exposures and the like, but the reality was that the light was totally gone in 3 minutes.
I should have used a higher setting so there would be more depth of field and the whole flower would have been in focus. I won’t be able to go back tomorrow because as you can see in comparing the shots from the two days, the color is starting to fade from the rose.
Seeing that the light was fading, I changed to try and catch some backlighting and ended up with this.
Truly urban, and truly natural.
I ran across a site that I had bookmarked some time ago, called Urban Nature. Although the writer has stopped posting for over a year now, I kind of liked the idea and decided to add a category to my Blog for photos that might suite my fancy when I’m out and about in the city.
This evening, for just a couple of minutes, the setting sunlight was illuminating this rose. Tomorrow I hope to be ready with a closeup lens and a tripod.
Topping off the evening is a shot of the urban and nature, the last glow of the sunset that lights the western sky. This slice is one of about 10 that one would have to take to catch the whole “big sky” that I see off of my balcony.
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