Kansas Sunset

I was in Kansas Tuesday evening, and the sunset was breathtaking!

cloudscapes, sunset

Freedom flight

This one blows me away…

At first, I cropped the photo, wanting the bird to be more centralized. But if I lost the top of that sky, you lose the intent of the photo. It’s that amazing, big wonderful sky – the ‘playground’ in which that bird can soar – free. In the next shot I took (not pictured here) he was at the left side of the photo, far onto the next stop in his journey.

So this photo stayed, ‘as is’ from ‘in camera’. All I did was resize it down, for bandwidth. No crop. No postproduction. No color enhancement.

The camera sees what the eye sees.

Dramatic sunset

Dramatic Sunset

This was in my camera from a couple weeks ago. I cannot imagine why I didn’t post it, then, but it sure jumped out at me today.

Earlier I had driven by a bunch of birds in the street, trying to take a bird bath, on a sheet of frozen ice. I thought it was so funny. So, I went back out, just now, and the birds were still there, but some of the ice had melted, so they actually had water to splash in (it’s way below freezing today where I live). Anyway, in getting out the camera, I found this sunset.

Happy New Year! Best wishes for a happy and safe and wonderful 2015.

December Sunset

Wisp

Not my usual style.  This is softly out of focus. But, it appealed to me.

I haven’t blogged much lately, hence the last few cloudscape photo posts. I’m about to finalize a screenplay. I’m down to the proofreading. I’ve been agonizing for over a week about adding a scene. Does it need it? Does this character “need” another scene to facilitate his character? If I’ve been ‘this’ back and forth over it, then I should probably leave it out? [When it doubt, leave it out?!?]

Peace.

 

End of day

I shot this last week, but when I finally viewed photos, I was stunned by these. I shot about 6 of this sunset, one right after the other, but this particular shot was the “crispest”. When you take a camera out into the world, you never know what you’ll find!

When the sun starts goin’ down on the prairie

This one is my favorite of tonight’s pictures. Something about the underside of those clouds just haunts me.

 

In other work, I’ve got a huge project going on for the last 2 weeks, but it’s not one you can talk about step by step. But, it’s taking up all my spare time and all my creative energy, and it’ll be something special. And I’m excited to be “engaged” (mentally-I mean) in such a big project.

Have a lovely week.

The last glimmer

Morning rain

Wishing everyone peace and joy in the coming week.

Texas Skies

I took this photo on a setting on the point and shoot that I’ve never used before: Night landscape. And you had to  hold still during the exposure time. (That’s almost impossible, and I didn’t have a tripod with me.) But, I loved the way this came out, with the sky, and the lights. It was actually much darker than this, for the blue portion of the sky, but the storm clouds were to the north, so I couldn’t resist trying to capture the photo. It’s great to push your boundaries and learn more about photography. It’s hard. Photography is hard! Whew!

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In other news…my attempted guitar work went splat! SPLAT! I had worked to try to build the tracks to the guitar driven song, code name BT, LM. Well, it wasn’t there. I’d listen to the work one time, and thought it’d be good enough. Then listen another day, and it wasn’t. Too much imprecision of timing, hesitation. Buzzed notes or dead notes. I need to attack that guitar with confidence, but it sure didn’t happen, after weeks of building up to it. So…what’s the next step? Either hire a guitarist for this song, or put the project on hold till I get better at the guitar.

In the meantime, I’ve been playing the piano (I’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to play the piano for fun–to create a piece of music on the piano. So much of this lately has been about recording and work and segments, etc.) I wrote a song yesterday. Gave me chills, so that’s how I know I’m on the right track.

Have a great weekend!