Peaceable Kingdom

Peaceable Kingdom

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"And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making [them] tremble" (Micah 4:4)

"The whole earth has come to rest, has become free of disturbance. People have become cheerful with joyful cries. Even the juniper trees have also rejoiced at you" (Isaiah 14:7)

"They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain; because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are covering the very sea" (Isaiah 11:9)

Last year I took a shot from this same spot and called it Peaceable Dawn, and it certainly was.

Can you imagine for a moment the whole earth existing with the above conditions. Take a moment, sit back and IMAGINE IT. What would it take for the above conditions to exist? I'm reminded of a phrase from a famous song...."nothing to kill or die for".....IMAGINE IT. For the above conditions to exist, the things that people around the world are killing and dying for would have to become non-existent. IMAGINE IT.

Hopefully I will be able to have quite a few more peaceable photos as I'm headed for 5 days at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Then 4 days at Zion National Park and all points in between.

Someone asked me today if I do these trips solo and I said that unless they were also photographers, it would probably not be fun for anyone as I'm getting up at 4am to get to hopefully catch a rockin' sunrise and then staying out on the trails all day or walking in knee to waist deep water for 8 hours as I'm going to at the Narrows in Zion. Then after I've gotten an also rockin' (hopefully) sunset shot and it's totally dark by the time I get to my car, get back to town and go into the grocery store all sticky and stinky to get food for the next days activity, get to the motel (yes, motel, I'm not that hard core) and eat something, shower, try to sleep till 4am and repeat it all over again............but it's where I find my peace.

Wish me drama in the skies and awesome light.

The 8th Wonder

The 8th Wonder

The Quiet Hope

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The 7 Wonders of the world are truly wonderful but for most of us they are distant lands which we will only read about. Don't feel too bad though, your 8th Wonder may be as close as your next dawn.

FINALLY, I get a break from the cloudless hazy skies we've had for too long a time. I took advantage of this morning's scene and needless to say I was late for work but it was worth it. And the next day? Back to hazy skies. I'm quietly hoping.

Dreamscape

Dreamscape

The Mist
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I feel very fortunate to live where I do as I can head over to the Mendocino coast in the afternoon, shoot until dark and get back home by 11pm.

Another gamble with the sky. There was the possibility of patchy clouds which is what I was hoping for but as I pulled into Ft. Bragg the high fog bank had moved in. There was this very thin sliver of clear right at the horizon that you can see in the above image and I was hoping as the sun set it would make an appearance and make some magic but it set too far to the left where it was not clear.

In the "Dreamscape" image above, I was positioned high on the bluff above Glass beach and using a long exposure, I tried to get the feeling of flying over the coast as if in a dream. Please view it at Large x3 in my gallery for full effect.

The "mist" image was my last shot of the night (9pm) and it was almost pitch black. I normally manually focus to get the sharpest photo but it was too dark to see enough detail in anything to focus on and it was too dark to use Auto Focus so I had to get out my little flashlight and manually set the lens on "Infinity" and hope for the best. This was a 30 sec exposure which gave the white waves that came in and out several times during the exposure the look of a low mist or fog and it makes the image seem as if it's not that dark. The small starburst on the horizon is a light from a ship in the distance. I was surprised how bright it was given how far away it was. Had to use the flashlight to get back to shore and on the trail back to car.