Photo Hunt/Challenge

This is your assignment, if you choose to accept. Those words and the theme music from Mission: Impossible are what is in my head when my friend Karma posts one of her photo hunts. The mission this time was before and after. My head was swimming with ideas all week. I didn’t get to all of the ideas so I may have to post again later.

My first thought, being primarily a landscape photographer, was before and after sunrise. The light changes drastically when the sun crosses the horizon and changes the mood of the scene. The conditions were not ideal Sunday morning but the temperature was more accommodating than on Saturday (I strongly dislike the cold).

I went to my go to place in Rome, Bellamy Harbor. I had other ideas for additional challenges I wanted to capture but the sunrise was first on my list. I got lucky as the fence preventing me from reaching my favorite spot at one end of the harbor had been rotated again allowing me to walk right in. I probably should have left the camera in one spot and waited but I’m not always good at waiting. These are basically the same view…

The two images are only thirty minutes apart. The first image is twenty minutes prior while the second image is ten minutes after the sun woke up for the day. Two different scenes of the harbor. I like the before image best.

My next idea had several opportunities for me. The after image for this scene is the only one that worked out. My thought was to show a winter scene before this weird winter thaw and what it looks like now. As much as I complain about the cold, the snow tends to “pretty up” a scene. I’m borrowing a previously posted image for the first one.

There were a few more stops along the Mohawk River Trail that I wanted to capture for the after image party but I miscalculated the view. I know, I should have pulled out my phone and looked up the before images, but it was such a beautiful day I didn’t want to ruin it by having my nose to my phone.

My last set of images for this photo hunt is a concept that showed up in my head this past week. I’m not positive what prompted it or how it appeared, other than I was hungry. I made chili yesterday. I still make enough to feed a family but it works for me as I freeze half and eat half for a few days at work. How does this fit the theme you ask? Well…

Other ideas I didn’t pursue; show a clock at 11:55am and 12:05pm, an image out the front window of the car and then the back window (that one required a quiet country road I could stop on), the straight out of camera image and the post-processed image… I could go on.

This was a fun photo hunt. I needed the challenge to wake up my brain. I think I have been sleep walking through my days lately. Thanks Karma! Looking forward to the next one… ;)