HDR is fun !

Sometimes you just want to go out and warp the "normal" reality. Great day for a hike today.

the simple things

Sometimes it really is just the simple things. Just wandering around the house the other day, trying different settings on the camera, I was just snapping whatever came into view. This image caught my eye and then I decided to play with it. Without getting too metaphysical, I find sometimes, just walking around with the camera in hand shifts my normal orientation of perception into more of the "now". If that makes sense. Some times we don't "see" things because of the repetition of always looking at them. That's one of the reasons why, when I go out shooting, I like to go to places I've been before, and see if I can consciously shift my perception of the sameness, and find something different to "see". Try it sometime. It's really amazing what new discoveries you can make.

Magic Bus

It's always a treat, when you're hiking out in the middle of nowhere, in this case, being the cinderfields north of Flagstaff, and you come around a corner and see something totally incongruous. Like this bus. Why was it there ? How did it get there ? How long has it been there? Are the owners still around ... or even alive ? It's not that it's especially old, as in antique. It's not like a lot of other vehicles that you find out in the wild....shot full of holes for target practice. It's just parked there, like someone was coming back for it, some day.

At any rate, it did put a smile on my face.