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Showing posts with label sunsets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunsets. Show all posts

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Foto Story # 75-- Beautiful Skies

Thanks to a high schooler who also has an early morning religious class, seminary, I have been forced... er, blessed with the opportunity of being up before the sun rises. Tuesday morning dawned in radiant splendor! I could not believe how bright and beautiful the colors were. It is difficult to get him to class on time when I really just wanted to have him pull over so I get out and compose a shot or 20! The morning sky changes SO much faster than the evening sky. The bright colors quickly fade and are gone in a matter of seconds.


That same evening the setting sun put on its own display of colors. Evening sky usually gets more colorful as the minutes pass and the challenge is not the loss of color but the loss of light in which to capture the range of colors that have appeared.

May we each take a moment to enjoy the sky whether you are a morning or an evening sky the beauty painted there is calming and inviting.
PhotoStory Friday
Hosted by Cecily and She's a moron and can't remember...


Thursday, October 1, 2009

Foto Story #69-- Dramatic Sky

Because I love the sky I have to check it out daily... many times daily. I very easily could take sunset pictures every day for each is beautiful and a little different or a lot different depending on the clouds, and the angle of the shotor the direction you're facing.
Forbidding morning clouds. As I stepped into the car to ride to seminary with Cody one morning, I saw these clouds and was sure we were in for rain..... turned out to be a beautiful sunny day~!
The sunsets over the Yellowstone River. The colors reflected so nicely that evening.
Although there is a shopping cart in the corner of this shot, I like the beautiful pink sky and farmstyle house framed by the trees. I took another shot and didn't get the cart, but it cut too much tree off. I'd edit the cart out but currently I have only one bad program and it doesn't allow you to have much control. This shot is facing east. I do love it when the whole sky gets to participate in the setting sun.
This is the same sunset a few minutes later and facing west in another location in town.
Another view of the same sunset facing south. I liked how the sliver moon was surrounded by pink and blue. I stood in the same spot to take this one and the previous shot.
PhotoStory Friday
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

SkyWatch Friday-the fall sky


The cloudy fall sky as seen by looking up through the leaves of our tree.
The evening sky.
Another angle of the fall evening sky.
The trees framing the fall sunset.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Foto-story Friday #15-- sunset genes

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Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek


I've decided that the love of a beautiful sunset runs in the genes!  Here are some examples of sunsets taken by my family members:

These first ones were either taken by my sister, Colleen or my dad.   They were taken in Airway Heights, WA, date unknown.  My guess is that they were taken mid to late 70's.
The photographer for these shots is likely to be the same family member.  This photo was taken between Airway Heights and Medical Lake, WA
These two were taken in Reardon, WA, where my grandparents lived.
I'm unsure of the location of this one.  As you can see we take pictures of sunsets
All the above ones are all on a family collection of photos CD.
Shantel has taken one:
Scott, EmmaLece and Robby all recently took a shot at this sunset:
Scott's eye view.
EmmaLece's perspective.
 From Robby's vantage point.  It is interesting to see the different angles each child got on this same sunset.  they all stood in basically the same spot for each picture, but yet they all got Such different shots!
I pointed my camera at this same sunset only a few minutes before the kids:
I have the advantage of jumping on the 4 wheeler to "run" up the street to a less obstructive view.

This is looking east, sometimes the sunset makes the view east more beautiful as well.
So what inspired this sunset post?  Every time we are outside as the sunsets, EmmaLece will holler out: "Oh it's beautiful!  Mommy, we should take a picture!"  While writing this, EmmaLece saw the pictures and exclaimed:  Ohhhhhhhhhhh!  the sunset!"