As promised here's the remaining 6 images of my favorite 12 for 2012.
I have promised myself to get out more to use my camera to shoot more and different images. So far I have been on a couple longer hikes in support of that promise. This one is from a late Novemebr hike along the Rio Cebolla. It was below freezing when we started warming up to the 50's by lunch. Because it has been fairly warm this fall there was spotty ice along the stream banks. I had to really crop the image so the ice becomes a small potion of the image. There is a lot of unresolvable detail in the ice that detracts from the original image. A tripod really helps with placing and keeping the camera still for this image.
This was taken in Vancouver BC in the area of English Bay looking west. This is a fairly classic composition with the horizon placed at a 1/3 position horizontally and the couple at one of the 1/3 positions vertically. The image is somewhat underexposed enhancing the feeling of the sunset.
I like the following two image because of the selective lighting on the leaves.
The last two images were taken on two different hikes. The lake image was taken in the Pecos Wilderness this past fall. The sunset-peak image was taken around the Gilman tunnels in the Jemez Mountains.
I hope you enjoyed my 12 favorite images of 2012.
Thank you for stopping by,
Mark
We are looking for peak fall color! Rain and winds have been passing through the
state this past week; my hopes are not high as I intently study the weather on
the three local TV stations. I didn’t
see any fall color when I passed through northern NM on my trip back from WI in
mid September so maybe there’s a chance.
It’s the Fourth of July weekend so we are expecting lots of
campers, along with campers come fishermen and women. Since Mark and Byron don’t like to share
fishing locations we anticipate hiking some distance to get to a long, empty
spot on the river. This really works
into Mark’s plan. He and Byron have
fished the Mora several times and never made it upstream more than a mile or
so. Those of you that have been
following my blog know that they rarely make it more than 20 minutes upstream from
the last people they see before they have to stop, put together their gear and
start fishing. This time Mark’s goal is
to make it to the confluence of the Mora and Bear Creek somewhere between one
and a half and two miles upriver.
Today’s weather forecast is for a 60% chance of rain. Will the weather forecaster’s prediction be
right a second time? Last time we hiked we
got both rain and snow. We are going anyhow;
it’s warmer so if anything it will be only rain.
Out of a list of several hikes we have on our to-do list we
decided on the Hamilton Mesa in the southern part of the Pecos Wilderness. This is a different type of hike from what
Byron and I have been doing lately. As
you may remember he pretty much lives to fly-fish and we usually hike along a
stream of some type where Byron fishes and I photograph. We are both happy. As you may surmise from the title we are not
hiking at the bottom of a canyon, instead we are on the top of a mesa…
This was taken in Vancouver BC in the area of English Bay looking west. This is a fairly classic composition with the horizon placed at a 1/3 position horizontally and the couple at one of the 1/3 positions vertically. The image is somewhat underexposed enhancing the feeling of the sunset.
I like the following two image because of the selective lighting on the leaves.
