Fading Gold
Busy couple of days… I wanted to post some images from my Idaho trip, but haven’t put them together yet. I did, however, process this image from last evening, taken in the Shields Valley looking west at the Bridger Mountains. I was shooting directly into the sun so I had to use my hand to shade the lens. Several shots had a lot of flare, but this one came out quite well. I’ve been able to go photographing for the past 4 days and have a lot of good stuff to post. There’s the odd series on three strange log structures I found hidden in a thicket of trees alongside the Yellowstone River, as well as another cow-scape (which I’ve decided to finally create as a ‘tag’).
Beautiful shot Cody. Glad to hear the past 4 days of shooting were good ones, I look forward to your future posts. As for lightning, I know it wasn’t that close, but your shot of the road with the lightning strike at the end of it was pretty amazing! Moo!
Thanks, Diane, I’ve got more photo editing on my hands than I know what to do with!
Regarding the lightning shot, you’re right, I wasn’t that close. But I can tell you that it was miles and miles closer to us than any of the other bolts that had been striking. It was actually kind of strange…there was a point in the clouds, a vortex of sorts that I’d been watching for quite some time. Turns out, that’s precisely where the bolt I captured originated from. All the other strikes were probably 10 or 12 miles away, this one was only a mile and a half or so…close enough that we fled, quickly. I’m no storm chaser…ha!