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Going Back Ten Years

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Delta Lake Dam

Looking through my Lightroom catalog it has been about ten weeks since I picked up my camera. The last few images I captured even feel ‘meh’ to me. I wish I had a better understanding about what happened or switched inside me but I don’t. I wasn’t feeling the photography and turned to other hobbies. It is time to be OK with that…

I received an email through the contact form on this blog from a blogging friend. Someone who has been away from photography for a while and is getting back into it. Asking a few questions about posting images and looking for a little help with WordPress.

The opening statement in the email about me not posting in a while and hoping everything is all right struck at me. I get lazy. I forget how much my online friends contribute to me and how much I can give back. I’m a bit of a loner by nature and I don’t put in the effort I should. It is a two-way street but I usually drive it as a one-way…

I want to be better.

Today might not be the day to pick-up the camera as it is currently raining. We are expecting a little snow (if I am to believe the forecast) and I’m wishing we get a nice white coat for the landscape. I want to explore and grab a some images. Until then, I went back ten years to December 2013 and re-processed this image at the Delta Lake dam. The original can be viewed here. I modified the crop from 16×9 to 5×7. I also chose to go with a faded blue look which I feel conveys the cold a little better on this overcast day.

Oh, I almost forget to say thank you to Karma for sending that email… I’m looking forward to seeing what you will be creating.

A Day to the Dam Redo
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 0.5s, 28mm, f/20, ISO 100

Flamingos

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Kilimanjaro Safari, Africa,
Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World

Flamingos
Nikon Z6 II, NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S, 1/800s, 24mm, f/4, ISO 100

Coming and Going

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Silent Sunday
Frontierland, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World

Coming and Going
Nikon Z6 II, NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S, 1/640s, 24mm, f/5.6, ISO 100

Cindy’s Glow

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Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World

Cindy’s Glow
Nikon Z6 II, NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S, 1/125s, 26mm, f/11, ISO 100

After Sunset Fades

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Midday, Floral, Macro

The Beautiful Changes

BY RICHARD WILBUR
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides   
The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you   
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed   
By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;   
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves   
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says   
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes   
In such kind ways,   
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose   
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

After Sunset Fades
Nikon Z6 II, NIKKOR Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S, 1/400s, f/5.6, ISO 100