Hello again readers and welcome back! In the middle of August we took a small vacation out to the greater Las Vegas area, which included a day trip to Grand Canyon National Park. It was the first time that I visited the park since I visited with my family when I was young. However, that trip was not nearly as fun as I would have liked it to be, as the entire trip I was sick with mononucleosis. This year another trip out there finally became a reality, and I was not fighting a terrible infection the whole time!
This photo was taken right outside of Grand Canyon Village at the South Rim. We were met with a pop up rain shower right after we landed from our short flight to the Grand Canyon, and during the drive from the airport it mostly cleared up. This shot was totally unexpected, as I was taking photos of the view from the overlook with the wide angle lens, and Jill pointed out there was a rainbow that was visible on the right side of the view. Sure, it would have been awesome to catch a much more prominent rainbow, but hey, a small bit of a rainbow is better than no rainbow!
South Rim Rainbow
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Good afternoon readers and welcome back! Hopefully you got to see at least some, if not all, of the solar eclipse today if you live in the United States! I am posting two photos, one is a mixed composition of clouds and the sun, and the other is when we had maximum coverage here in Millersville. Cloudy Eclipse I used two photos to compose this shot, because the sun is so bright that properly capturing the sharpness of the light means the entire rest of the photo is pretty much dark. I really like how this photo came out and I wish that it would have been cloudy during our peak coverage too, as it made a much better picture I think.
Fullest Coverage
This photo is the maximum coverage here in Millersville, we had about 82% if I recall correctly, which is not bad, but it is nowhere near as cool as being along the path of the total eclipse!
Hello again readers and welcome back!! The subject of today's photo comes from a journey to Portland, Maine to get some photos of the Portland Head Light lighthouse, which is actually located just outside of Portland in Cape Elizabeth. According to my Uber driver, as well as some online research before heading up there, the lighthouse is the most photographed scene in all of Maine. I kept a close on eye on the weather on Thursday, the day before the trip, due to a storm that was passing through the area. It started with snow, changed to freezing rain, changed to rain, and then changed back to snow. The official total of the snowfall at the Portland Jetport was 7.7". I was a little concerned that it might be difficult to get from the airport to the lighthouse, but the roads were in really good shape and surprisingly there were quite a few people at the lighthouse as well. At least some of them had the same idea and tried to get some snowfall photos of the lighthouse!
This photo was taken at the top corner of one of the cliffs overlooking the lighthouse, facing south. The clouds in the southern sky were much better looking than the clouds facing north, although had I arrived earlier it probably would have been a great sky for photographs all around. I definitely want to visit the area again and get more photos of the area, as there are quite a few lighthouses in and around Portland, plus plenty of other photo opportunities as well. There will definitely be more photos to come from this trip! Portland Head Lighthouse, looking south Please feel free to click on the photo above to view it in various sizes. Clicking on the photo also takes you to my online gallery, hosted over at smugmug, where you can browse this (and other) photos that I have posted. If you enjoyed viewing this photo, please take a moment and leave comments and/or feedback. Please also feel free to pass the link of this photo on to others if you so desire. Thanks for stopping by!!
Hello again readers and welcome back!! The subject of today's photo comes from a journey to Sunset Cliffs Natural Park during a recent trip to San Diego, California. I did not have a chance to visit Sunset Cliffs during my previous visit to San Diego, and despite the sunset not being as spectacular as I had hoped, I still managed to get some pretty good photos of, all in all, a pretty underwhelming sunset. When we left the hotel to start the short drive out there, it was sunny with some clouds and I thought we would have some really good shots. As we got closer to the park it got more and more overcast and we did not get to witness the amazing sunset that we had hoped for. I think that just means we have to make more trips out to San Diego more often! Sunset Cliffs
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Hello again readers, and welcome back! The subject of today's photo is the room of a small child, located within the Bellamy Mansion Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina. We stopped by the museum during our vacation back in July and took the tour. The tour was interesting, but the temperatures were in the mid 90s, with heat indexes well over 100 degrees, so it got really warm in the home very quickly. I broke off from the main tour group and wandered around the home on my own to take photos. All of the rooms have been restored and have a central underlying theme, but this room was, in my opinion, the best photographic opportunity out of all of them. It kind of reminded me of a scene out of a mystery or horror movie, where the stroller will suddenly start to move on it's own, or the bed would levitate, or something else that was just unnatural.
I took a series of three bracketed photos from the corner of the room with the 24mm lens (rented from Borrow Lenses!) and did some retouching in Photoshop to bring out how I wanted the room to "look". I hope you enjoy it!
Creepy Room Please feel free to click on the photo above to view it in various sizes. Clicking on the photo also takes you to my online gallery, hosted over at smugmug, where you can browse this (and other) photos that I have posted. If you enjoyed viewing this photo, please take a moment and leave comments and/or feedback. Please also feel free to pass the link of this photo on to others if you so desire. Thanks for stopping by!!
