Horse Detail

Meet Dimples.  She's been my cousin's horse and friend for many years.  These two have a special relationship.  We took a lot of pictures, but this first one is my favorite - it captures their connection beautifully!  

Country Graffiti

Last weekend, I did a photo shoot with my cousin and her horse (photos to be posted soon).  On the way home, I drove by this train.  I was in a rush, so I could only stop for a few moments.  I plan on coming back here to shoot more - how can you resist country graffiti?!   

Finally Fog!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I give you...

FOG! (finally)

It's 10:00 am and I just came in to dump my card and recharge my batteries.  Within the hour, I'll be heading back out to do my pond and sky time-lapse.  Yipppeee!!

 

 An oak tree stands alone, isolated by thick fog, in the middle of a field off of Comstock Rd in Linden, Calif.  My recent fog obsession is credited to this amazing tree.  Every morning, I woke up thinking about this picture.  I love the tone and the simplicity of this image.  My one critic - the sun is rising to the left, disrupting the evenly diffused light.  If I choose to print this picture, I need to work from the RAW file to control the highlights - my computer screen forgives more than a piece of paper.

Early in the morning, a white crane flies through a foggy orchard off of Comstock Rd in Linden, Calif.  These are beautiful birds - but they're a bit camera shy.  White on white is never easy, so I'm especially proud of how this image turned out.  I really enjoy the branches in the foreground and that I caught the bird flying.  I had to crop this in quite a bit so unfortunately, the image will not print well.  It's still pretty though.
 

A funny thing happened when I used the keyboard short-cut to resize this image... I inverted it... and I think it looks really interesting!  :) 

Forecast said Fog...

For the last week, I've been driving into work at 7am through a blanket of fog.  Over and over I told myself I'd be out with my camera on the weekend to capture the images I saw on my way to my tiny cubicle.

The forecast said fog... but what I got was just a light mist.  :(  Oy!

I'm coming back here when I have a cloudy sky to do a time lapse.  Can you see it?  Picture it this way - the sky is a deep blue littered with chubby white clouds, the land is a brighter green and I stop down the aperture so more of the image is in focus.  It will be like a tiny strip of land sandwiched between moving clouds!  I'm so excited to get started!

I'm posting this as an example of how important speed is to a photographer.  Right before I pressed the shutter release, there was a beautiful hawk sitting here.  It would have been awesome... alas, I was not fast enough.  

Tilted horizon + low POV = a fun picture!  If I had the fog I was looking for, or a different sky, I think this picture would have been much better.  I still like it though. :)