Breathe; This is what I feel like I am doing for the first time in a long while with my art. As a landscape shooter I needed to learn to shoot scenes within the magical hours of the day, but in doing so I neglected shooting whenever the light and the sky came together. So part of my growth in my time away was to tell myself to shoot whenever I felt compelled to do so and the hell with anyone who says "landscapes not shot during the golden hours aren't worthy"... I make my art for me and scenes like this move me *smile*.
3:30pm Update; The powers of the universe are incredible.. after posting this I came across this article petapixel.com/2016/06/09/why-envy-any-other-photographer/ which pretty well sums up my feelings very well. Enjoy.
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One of the MANY reasons I moved back to the country *Big Smile*.
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I take love over the gold
You gotta mind over matter
What you do, what you do that you must
When the things that you hold
Well they can fall and be shattered
They can run through your fingers like dust
-- Dire Straits
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It's gettin' near dawn,
When lights close their tired eyes.
I'll soon be with you my love,
To give you my dawn surprise.
I'll be with you darling soon,
I'll be with you when the stars start falling.
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love....
-- Cream
This was taken from atop Spruce Knob Plateau of the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia while I was out the other evening shooting with my 10 year old son and Bill, who was visiting from California. Bill had never been to Spruce Knob and wanted to see it. I am glad I brought extra jackets for us as the temps were in the 50's and the wind was a steady 20+ mph. The lesson here... sometimes you just have to suffer for your art. ;-)~ LOL!!!
**Artist note: I originally incorporated those 3 trees in the foreground just to "ground the scene", but once I began working on this image I had a thought go through my mind that those trees have a front row seat every night for the sunset. I know, I'm goofy. ;-)~
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None but ourselves can free our minds.
--Bob Marley
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