End of the Day Road

The other night, I was finished (so I thought) with capturing the sunset, and was heading home. I came to a stop, about to turn left and started to look both ways. I only made it one way when I had to get another set of photos.

This tableau of the brilliant sunset colored and cloud filled sky was punctuated by the set of trees in the middle distance. A perfect as a painting setup. Another stop me in my tracks opportunity for a good photograph. This time, I was fortunate to be stopped with no one coming behind me.

I framed, and fired off another set of five at different Exposure Values (EV).

That put a smile on my face and anticipation as to what would be the result.

Tonight, I'm working on a family portrait session from yesterday, and stopped that for a few minutes to get this one done and up for my photo of the day.

Using PhotomatixPro, I fed it the five raw files, and swizzled the settings, output the result into an intermediate program to remove some overhead wires, then brought it into Lightroom 2.4 for the final render and upload. I'm pleased with the results.

The road, trees, green landscape all serve to anchor that sky that's on fire with the sunset.

Would that every day were as beautiful, I wouldn't marvel at those, like this, that are such.

I'll be happy with being able to stop and see the wonders in front of me. Making time stop so I can gather the beauty of nature in.

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