Been to this particular meadow many times over the years. Always has a great panoply of wildflowers in season but the skies are usually blank and featureless or else it\'s totally socked in at sunset and sunrise. (And of course Mother Nature likes to give with one hand and throw hundreds of ravenous mountain mosquitoes at you with the other.)
This time I had been hanging out for a couple days waiting for the weather to break and it was my second sunset attempt. To top it off, there was another guy right where I wanted to be. I negotiated for a position but ended up leaving for Plan B as the clouds still covered the mountain an hour before sunset. Told the other guy I didn\'t think it was going to happen.
I hung out 10 minutes down the trail, and sure enough here comes the other guy bailing out and headed down. Also sure enough, another ten minutes after that the clouds started to roll back and the light starts to get nice.
I hoofed it quickly back to the meadow and set up just in time to catch the peak of the light, which really didn\'t last for but a few minutes. I\'m not real happy with my rushed composition and the sky forced me to go a lot wider than I had intended, but it is what it is and I was happy to finally catch a great sunset here, and in the therapeutic solitude I enjoy. Now that the wildflowers are well past their prime here, I\'ll have to wait for next year to try again.
Shot at about 20mm, used my \"old skool\" 3-stop hard graduated filter.
Been to this particular meadow many times over the years. Always has a great panoply of wildflowers in season but the skies are usually blank and featureless or else it\'s totally socked in at sunset and sunrise. (And of course Mother Nature likes to give with one hand and throw hundreds of ravenous mountain mosquitoes at you with the other.)
This time I had been hanging out for a couple days waiting for the weather to break and it was my second sunset attempt. To top it off, there was another guy right where I wanted to be. I negotiated for a position but ended up leaving for Plan B as the clouds still covered the mountain an hour before sunset. Told the other guy I didn\'t think it was going to happen.
I hung out 10 minutes down the trail, and sure enough here comes the other guy bailing out and headed down. Also sure enough, another ten minutes after that the clouds started to roll back and the light starts to get nice.
I hoofed it quickly back to the meadow and set up just in time to catch the peak of the light, which really didn\'t last for but a few minutes. I\'m not real happy with my rushed composition and the sky forced me to go a lot wider than I had intended, but it is what it is and I was happy to finally catch a great sunset here, and in the therapeutic solitude I enjoy. Now that the wildflowers are well past their prime here, I\'ll have to wait for next year to try again.
Shot at about 20mm, used my \"old skool\" 3-stop hard graduated filter.
Regards,
Geoff
www.geoffreyschmidphotography.com
Aug 11, 2013 at 05:19 PM
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