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wapiti (elk)

Thin clouds for yesterday morning’s moon set. This morning, clouds totally obscured the moon. Sigh.

moon

The moon setting before dawn over a forested hillside got me up this morning but the 8 inches of snow on the deck kept me from wading out too far to capture it shining through the clouds. I’m looking forward to the next few mornings for moon sets.

moon

I do a lot of quick photos from the car window as I ride through landscapes I like to photograph on the way from here to there and back again. I save some of the photos to remind me of places I want to return on foot to photograph. Some are used as composite parts of other images I create and print.

I focus through dirty glass or reflections a lot, but sometimes must lower the windows to get a better image. The dirty glass is similar to sensor dust spots in the barn image above. The tree and cloud below was captured through the dirty windshield, but at a larger aperture allowing me to focus through the dirt on the glass.

I’m almost as serious about making these drive by images as I am the slowly and carefully executed captures with camera steady on tripod. Not only do I get more images than if I always waited until we stopped the car, but I use the time as a passenger to practice and increase my speed with the lenses and cameras I use.

Fences, vegetation, the big house (not in this view), and the changing perspective with the background as we speed past this red and white ranch challenge me to choose the best moment to click the shutter.

With camera in my hand as we travel to and from I always capture an image or two and hope each trip for beautiful light to illuminate my world.

Disclaimer: Don’t try this alone! Remember I said I was a passenger in the car, not the driver!

South Park

A stubborn brown leaf refuses to let go though the cold and strong January wind does blow.

winter

These two November photographs were made just a few days apart and forgotten until today. The first one was made on a very cold morning in Pine using a fence post as a tripod. The second photograph was made from the passenger seat while traveling at highway speed in South Park.

wapiti (elk)

moon

Friday I ate chocolate mousse for my birthday. Two days later I saw a moose munching on willows by a creek and posing for photographs. The moose was backlit and the sun shone into my lens making a huge blue flare (which I cropped from these images).Why care the moose was too far away across beaver ponds and creek? Distance with a moose is probably a good thing. Ok, I admit I did deplore the abundance of sunlight from a difficult direction.  But, I’ve met a moose and it made me smile. I smiled at a moose and she may have smiled back at me. Happy.

moose