WHEN THE SKY LOOKS FAKE
I love those times when I walk outside on an ordinary day, and the sky looks like a fake painting or maybe even an imaginary place. I've seen the clouds that look like this several times. Sometimes I've seen them right at sunset where the colors are simply captivating. Sometimes I am able to capture them beautifully when I've been lucky enough to have my camera along.
Tonight, I'm going to be thankful for the technology of modern phones, since this scene fell before me as I got out of my car at Menards (to purchase wool for spinning this weekend!!) and I didn't have my regular camera, so I snapped this baby with my iPhone.
Not too shabby!!!
WHEN THE SUN IS SAYING "HELLO."
I really don't want to be a landscape photographer, I mean, at least not like as my mainstay. But in doing this 365, it's impossible to ignore the landscape. And it's not only the fact I'm doing a 365 that it's impossible to ignore. It's just the fact that we live on a beautiful earth and the universe is constantly throwing fantastic visions our way.
I'm not an early riser. I don't capture tons of sunrises because I just don't get up early. But here's a plus for the shortening Minnesota days...often times on my commute to work, the sunrise is in full swing. The down side to that is that I'm often driving somewhere when I see it and it's often on a highway. But this day, as soon as I saw the grape and tangerine sky, I decided I would take the route with the least dangerous side road stops! As I've said before, I need that bumper sticker...you know the one...photographer makes frequent and sudden stops, yada yada. Why can't there be pull over spots on the freeway specifically for photographers? (wink)
So maybe now that fall is upon us, not only will there be a few more fall color photos, but perhaps some sunrises too!
SOCCER ALL THE TIME
We are at soccer a lot. I've not posted as many photos as I would like to with soccer as the feature. I've just been having a little bit of a rough time adjusting to my new camera photographing sports, which is ironic because that's one big reason I bought it.
So this shot is not crystal clear, and I chose this one because I actually kind of like the effect of everything being out of focus and the motion blur because Tiana was definitely flying down the field.
We have one more tournament for the fall season, and hopefully I'll have something fun to post after that weekend. It's going to be in Rochester and I'm hoping to get out to see some farmland with some gorgeous fall colors that day as well as shooting the soccer games.
AUTUMN IN MINNESOTA
Tonight I went on a little walk through the woods. I really wanted to find a typical Minnesota fall scene. I did. The woods were wonderful. It was a chilly and windy evening, but I was dressed warm and enjoyed my quiet alone time.
I was surprised how many different types of trees in this one forested area. And even some of the oak trees were already losing their leaves. The colors will likely be fully developed by next weekend. I'm sure I'll probably have more fall scenes to share.
AT THE END OF THE DAY
When I make my way home at the end of the day, I drive down a road that goes right by the small county airport. And it's the biggest part of the sky around our area. When the sun is getting ready to leave for the day, I can often see some beautiful sunsets from the location. This night it was a crazy sunset. When I took this, I couldn't believe the colors. I didn't edit the colors at all in this shot.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Okay. I know it totally looks like I photoshopped this completely fake looking rainbow with fake looking clouds in the middle, but I swear, I cropped it and changed the contrast slightly, and this is what I got! I'm not a scientist, so I really don't understand the sky on the top of the rainbow being darker blue, but this is by far one of the most amazing rainbows I've ever seen.
I was pulling into a parking lot, and I had just left the Blaine airport shooting a photo of the clearing sky after a rainstorm. And the sun started to come through the clouds. And just as I got out of the car, my dear and beautiful friend Burdette sent me a text. "Do you see the Rainbow?" It was as if she was standing next to me. She must have been fairly close to where I was. So I turned to my left, and WOW!!
I was going to be late for where I was going, but there was not way I wasn't going to stop and shoot this!!!
HOLY AUTUMN
So, I'm in a few photo groups. One of them has 5,000 + members. And with every passing season, there's usually an overload of seasonal photos, i.e., minimalist photos in the snow, the blossoms of spring, the ever popular flowers blooming, etc. You get the gist.
So autumn is absolutely no exception to that rule. In fact, I sincerely think the abundance of gorgeous leaf-changing-color photos is almost overkill. I'm not going to lie though. I enjoy every single one of them. And I've actually dreamed about the different leaf photos I would take. I never dream about photography!!!
In the Cities, fall comes a little later than where some of my photography group "friends" are from. But I've been driving around and as usual distracted by looking for that perfect fall shot that won't look like everyone else's. Well, tonight, without looking for it, actually, I found one that I have not seen yet and hope nobody figures out where my "secret" spot is. In fact, until autumn is over, I won't add the location to this blog so hopefully my shot is unique!
