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Can you spot the plane in the sky?

Ubiquitous high power electric lines span many miles across the eastern Colorado prairies to bring electricity to the burgeoning populations and isolated farmsteads. Low angle post dawn sunlight creates dimensionality with long highlighted ridge lines and deep shadows.

Light clouds of ice-crystals at 16,000ft. Moonlight hits clouds at 22degrees = spectrum :)

I decided to drop in on Mount Rainier this weekend, hoping to catch some light. I have been here many times, and the moutain as always eluded me. After I had taken my shots that I wanted, I stood there in silence just taking in the view. Even thought there were other people around, I felt like it was just me and the mountain. We were finally at peace.

Sometimes we are granted a view that very few will believe.

This was such an amazing place!! It is one that you have to experience for yourself. There are just not words.. other than surreal.. to describe this place!! From the crunching of the crampons on the ice, to the huge crevasses.. there is just nothing like it!! It is 4 miles wide, and 27 miles long! It moves a foot and a half every day, and you can hear it moving, and calving in the distance.

View across Douglas Bay to Falcon Cliff building above the Casino on the promenade.

This is the Milkyway over Mount Shuksan on Picture lake. We had started at the top of Baker, but quickly realized that the Milkyway would be almost directly over the mountain. We grabed our gear and headed to the lake. There were a few clouds surounding the mountain. We decided to wait it out, and eventually the clouds began to clear. As I stood there looking around, all I could see was the darkness of the night. It was so quite, the only thing you heard was silence. It almost gave me an erry feeling being out there. But it was also so peaceful. Sometimes we get caught up in trying to get the shot, we foreget to enjoy the moment. So, next time you are out shooting at night.. take a moment and listen to the night.

As I viewed my images from the incredible weekend that I had, this particular image really stood out for me. It was the last image I took, before leaving the Alvord Desert in Oregon. We had only gotten about 3 hrs of sleep, but it was so worth getting up for. As I looked at the image, the clouds looked like a Phoenix rising up from the dry desert earth. The "Phoenix" is a symbol of a renewal or rebirth. It is a reminder to me, that no matter how far we fall, or how bad things get.... We all have the strength to rise again, and come out even stronger than we were!!

I was in need of some shutter therapy this evening, so a quick trip to the 'old faithful'

I had heard about the famous Dalles Mountain Ranch. People from miles around come to shoot this old car. I knew that if I wanted a shot, I had to act fast. The flowers had already reached their peak. I got up at 5 and drove 2 hrs to this place. It was totally worth losing a little sleep over. When I see stuff like this, I often wonder about its story. I wonder who the people were, and how the car happen to be left here, and why. No matter what the story is, though our photographs, the memories live on.

I had been to Palouse Falls twice before. The skies were always not very favorable, but this time I hit it just right. As I stood looking at the scene, there seemed to be a peacefulness about it. It was a perfect ending to a very long week.

Another capture at Pushlinch Lake with the island off centre and reflected image pretty much in the middle

This almost looks surreal, but that was our view today at lunch

Taken from the moving car on the 401 Toronto, ON.

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"The Grandeur of Yosemite" I had the opportunity to take my cousin to Yosemite for the first time while he was visiting me from Mexico. He stated that it is the most beautiful place that he has ever seen and was blown away with the grandeur of Yosemite. It's awesome to see someone experience Yosemite for the first time.

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Friday morning, 25th March 2016

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A very low tide day...had to walk out quite far on precarious rock outcroppings to get anything worthwhile...but it was worth it in the end.

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I caught this as an "outtake" shot, and I rather liked the sunflare in the image. Something a little bit different...

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Architecture

Sunset, ocean and surfers just seem to go together...

Cumulus clouds building just out to sea from the cruise ship harbor at Fort Lauderdale, FL. I was on my balcony on board the Coral Princess and was shooting across a docked Westerdam cruise ship.

Cumulus clouds building just out to sea from the cruise ship harbor at Fort Lauderdale, FL. I was on my balcony on board the Coral Princess and was shooting across a docked Westerdam cruise ship.

One of the things I love most about the coastline where I live is the beautiful seacliffs...this was taken during the blue hour, just after the sun had done down and the sky went all pink and purple. Moments like these remind me why I love my camera so much.

The pink afterglow of the Eve before Christmas Eve.

I love how this wave broke just perfectly to almost frame the setting sun...

The last of the blue hour being enjoyed by two little cowboys...only on the Central Coast of California :)

I woke up to some very dramatic clouds this morning. We had a dusting of snow overnight and the clouds, floating in the sky this morning, are most def snow clouds! Hoping for a white Christmas.

I took this photo a while back while competing in a 5-day black and white challenge.

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Smooth as Leizu's silk it was that day,
the day he emerged from the painted sea.
I watched his deep and delicate stride,
and quietly - like a child - I whispered
He has come for me...

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Where Eagles Dare!

Sunsets are beautiful, but I love catching interesting additions, like this surfer and the rays of sunlight coming through the pier.

An epic sunset in Pismo Beach, California this evening.

Creative Sunset/Sunrise

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We had scouted out earlier in the day, where we wanted to set up for sunset. I had been practicing my long exposure for the waves, so I would be able to catch them just right as the sun was setting. It was not very easy. Only being 5'3, I had a hard time standing with the waves coming at me. I even got chased away a couple of times. But, I knew if I wanted to get my shot, I had to stand my ground, and take what the ocean had to give.

Normally this isn't my typical style of work, but I wanted to try something different. I was in the creative mood. This image was taken in Florence Oregon. We had gotten up early to catch a sunrise. But were instead, met with foggy and dark morning. I think that the fog, actually adds to the mood of the image.

This photograph took me about 2 years to make.When I first saw this tree it was mid summer 2 years earlier. I knew It would be a good photo opp some day with the right conditions. So every once in a while I would take a hour drive to Maryland on my way to a cool water fall and check this dead tree and the conditions! On this day they were right on! Slow moving clouds clear no humidity just enough breeze to blow the corn that was just about ready for harvesting .

Eagle eyed moviegoers will recognize this from the amazing film,Usual Suspects.

Golden hour enriches the last of autumn colour

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Rear view of a store on Main Street, Sandwich Illinois.

Alone in a cloud,
These tall fir soldiers stand tall
Forgotten, lamenting their brothers
Seen for miles and miles,
Unfelled

This happens a lot in teh valley, it's one of my favourite things to see and I almost always don't have my camera when I see it.
This time I was prepared. :P

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop

As I sat watching the storm cloud roll over the hills towards me. Suddenly the sun broke through the clouds at sunset and lit up the Aspens.

Same time as the other.

Dramatic sky on the road home.

Gansey Bay with Carrick Rock. Stopped and snapped because of the startling cloud and light.

Sometimes you like a shot for NO APPARENT REASON.

RAIN GLORIOUS RAIN

This is Devil's Den in historic Gettysburg Pennsylvania! I was not intending to stop here on this day but as the sun rose above the clouds beams of light came popping through shining down on this historic place of battle when two sides clashed for three days July 1 -july 3 1863 leaving 51,000 brave soldiers dead! As I photographed the light I could not help but think how the sun might be warming the souls of the deceased .

Washington State fires smoke fills Alberta.

A little closer view of the lenticular clouds.

These lenticular, or lens-shaped clouds usually form over the top of a mountain. Occasionally the updrafts over a towering cumulus will give the same effect as a solid object (mountain) then the cross flow at the level of the top of the cloud causes the formation of the altocumulus standing lenticular clouds.

McDougall Church at Morley, Alberta, was built in 1875 by Reverend George McDougall. It had long been the desire of George McDougall to open a mission among the Stoney-Nakoda and Blackfoot people of southern Alberta. Numerous factors had, up to that time, prevented a missionary effort, but by the early 1870s, McDougall felt the time was right. The Morley mission would not only serve the Aboriginal people, but also afford an opportunity to establish a more permanent relationship with the Blackfoot Nation.

** Descriptive text taken from http://www.mcdougallstoneymission.com/

Northwest of Cochrane Alberta,

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/400
Focal Length: 18/1

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Just another country road...somewhere in a dream, perhaps.

This was taken the long way back from Las Cruces N.M., to Albuquerque. This shot is in-between Bingham and Socorro N.M.

Sunrise over the Irish Sea. Looking almost South from attic window in winter, sunrise is late enough to be photographed.

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Loving the pink on blue compliments.
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13 second exposure with Rokinon 14mm wide angle lens.

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Not sure of the settings. Took it off my phone.
Added B&W filter and a Dramatic filter in Snapseed!

Jetty in Ventura, California on a beautifully cloudy day.