SB Sunset #22
I happened to be working in Santa Barbara during the last week, and caught a couple nights of stunning sunsets. I didn’t go out the first night with the camera, we just sat on Patty and Jeff’s deck and watched it. But tonight, I couldn’t “not go”. I drove down to Shoreline Park (on the Mesa) along with a few thousand other appreciative souls, and took the pictures below.
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Steamboat Barn, painted with light
Gregg and I tried an experiment “painting” the Steamboat Barn with light tonight. It was 15 degrees out there, about a half hour after sundown. Gregg brought a halogen spotlight and “painted” the barn while we shot exposures about 30 seconds in length. Gregg’s shots on his D90 turned out WAY better than mine, for reasons we haven’t determined yet.
I did get a couple that are acceptable (the third one showing stars and constellations is pretty nice), but not quite what I wanted…. See below.
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They warned us on the news over the weekend. People ignored it as usual. They warned us again on Monday. So I took the Harley out for a ride on a nice fall day. They warned us again on Tuesday, but it was cloudy and windy, with lots of fall leaves in the air, so I left the bike in the garage and went out in the truck instead.
Wednesday AM - Out the front door
It hit Tuesday night. This picture on the left was from from 9am on Wednesday AM, when it really started snowing hard.
It snowed all day Wednesday, and we all shoveled driveways a couple times to try to keep ahead of it. The pictures below are from Thursday morning as the whole neighborhood was out shoveling again. Except for the kids of course who persisted in playing and throwing snowballs at the adults… So I eventually buried one up to his shoulders and told him to dig himself out. 
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We held our 2nd annual Fourth of July block party this year, and it was another successful, if not slightly more sane party. We wrapped it up at 1:30am this year instead of 3am, and it only took an hour to clean up the streets the next morning. And, just to be clear, I have no recollection of any any fireworks at our party… I have no idea where all that stuff we had to sweep up came from…
For the official fireworks from the city, which they launch about 1/4 mile north of the house, I set up the camera to capture the fireworks, and caught a few good shots.
I’m uploading the rest of what I rated 3+ (out of 5) below the break, since most people really don’t care about the other couple hundred shots it takes to capture fireworks effectively.
There was no fire jumping this year, and more importantly, I had officially resigned as the “after dark” photographer, so all the goings on are relegated to memory only… You’ll have to ask the neighbors about things you may want to know. I’m not talking….
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Sunset 29
We had a cold front come through town today, and the clouds lined up nicely for a spectacular sunset.It was windy enough that I had to anchor the tripod by hanging the backpack on it, and it got pretty chilly very quickly, but all in all, it was worth it as usual!
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53-Walking on the Thompson
After quite a bit of time not shooting, I had to make sure the camera still worked, and that I knew how to use it. When my friend Gregg mentioned that he wanted to take a trip up to Rocky Mountain National Park, to shoot landscape and the elk herds, I thought it’d be fun to go. Especially since it was supposed to be cold and snowy at home.
We headed up towards Estes Park, and saw some breaks in the clouds, which made us hopeful for good lighting. As we drove in, the weather got progressively worse. We stopped at the Fern Lake Trailhead, put on the Sorrel’s and started walking towards Fern Lake, shooting whatever we found. Lots of opportunity, and a LOT of white light out there. After the snow melts next spring, somebody is going to find a nice pair of gunmetal grey Bolle’s sitting on the ground between Cub Lake and the Fern Lake Trailhead. I searched and searched, but couldn’t find them. And I knew within about 30 meters of where I lost them. Bummer….
After a couple hours shooting along the creek, we headed up towards Bear Lake, and the snow got MUCH worse. Not much to shoot there. Far too much snow to get anything useful.
418-Elk in Horseshoe Meadow
Leaving there, we decided to head for Horseshoe meadows, since the elk tend to congregate there. But on the way, got distracted in by the heavy snow and some of the trees in the mist/fog/snow. I’ve brightened this up a little since it was so gray outside, but I like the look of the tree with the ridge-line obscured in the background. We must have spend an hour walking around in the heavy snow, with people driving by looking at us like we were strange. It’s funny how two guys shooting trees, bushes, pine-cones and landscapes in a snowstorm causes mutiple cars to stop and try to find the elk we’re taking pictures of. It was pretty funny.
A few of the many pictures I took can be seen in the gallery below the break.
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Colorful shadows
On the weekend of May 17th, Erie had it’s annual Balloon Festival. I met Gregg again this year, quite early in the AM. The difference this year? We sat around an waited a LONG time for people to start launching. Last year, they were launching at sunrise, but for some reason, at sunrise, none of the launch teams had even showed up yet. They started trickling in shortly after sunrise, and took at least a couple hours to set up and launch.
Launching
I don’t know if they were just disorganized this year, or if it was intentional, but it was kind of annoying. But we did get to cruise around the Vista Ridge Golf Course Clubhouse, and even found coffee to sip while we waited.
My photo album is shown below the break.
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Tulips on Pearl Street
On May 3rd, Gregg called the group together to do a Photowalk in Boulder, CO.
Gregg and I have shot on Pearl Street Mall before, but this time, he published the walk at Photowalking.org, and he got quite a few more people to join us.
My shots are in this gallery, and here’s some links to other galleries of people who went with us.
My full gallery and the original invitation are below the break.
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