This was yesterday morning in which two of my favorite subjects offered an image I could not ignore! I woke at sunrise and grabbed tripod and camera and hit the deck barefoot. The temperature was 49 degrees F, but I didn’t notice my cold feet until I’d spent 25 min. watching and photographing the moon setting alongside lions head. I love the way the shadow of the mountains behind me slip away to reveal the a radiant lion as the sun rises.
Some people say they can’t see the lion in this over 9,000 ft rock outcrop, but I know he’s there for he motivates me to get out of my warm bed and photograph. The lion performs well with clouds and fog, snow and trees, and early light. I adore him with the moon. Some people do morning yoga salutations to the sun, but my morning salutations often point to the lion on my western horizon.
Lions Head, moon
Full Moon setting over Cathedral before sunrise and Wanning Moon with sunrise-pink clouds and Lions Head
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In the sky last week: a bright wave above the treetops.
I loved the tiny, thin line of cloud stretched out beside lions head. Named it, “lions breath”.
I can’t get away from the moon.
I’ve got the moon in my head. I listened to an old song with a line about the moon and the line played over and again in my mind for a week. Cured the condition by listening to lots of other music, but am being careful with that song from now on. Won’t even type the title. 
Lions Head, clouds, moon
Why not go for the moon? This early morning moon set got me out of bed to photograph.
I’m still working my way through all the materials and files going back into my studio. Piles of homeless stuff litter the rooms waiting for a place in the studio, a donation trip, or the dumpster. Anyone need an oscillating fan that sounds like a jet engine?
I loved the early purple before sunrise (above) and the changing colors as the sun rose (below). I loved standing on the deck in the cold morning looking out and away from the chores waiting for me inside the house.
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moon over lions head 02-11-09
Everything’s been moved out of my studio in preparation for installing a new floor. My living room looks like one of the homes you hear about where the people never throw anything away and can only move about the house through narrow passages.
My studio is a smallish spare bedroom of the house where I do all my after-capture photo work, processing raw files on my computer, printing, and framing. In a perfect world, I’d have separate rooms or a larger space for all these activities. In my world, I wonder how all that stuff in the living room will ever fit back into the studio.
Today, I paint the walls.
Moon setting over lions head 02-11-09
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This was Jan. 10 at 5am, the morning before the full moon.
Had my days mixed up. I was planning to photograph the full moon setting at sunrise but the bright light of the moon woke me at 5am and I realized I was a day early. I went out and made a few images anyway. The next day, too warm and lazy to drag myself out in the cold, I only peeked from under the blankets at the moon setting at sunrise outside my window.
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