A New Day Emerges
There is an occasionally recurring theme in my blog posts and photo adventures... "Planning and excitement" followed by "something going wrong", leading to "anger and whining", followed by "grudging acceptance" and ending with "thankfulness that I remained flexible".
Whether it's deer hunting season closing the trails I intended to hike, or a lost camera bag causing me to go to my destination the next day under much better lighting, or early morning fog obscuring the fiery sunrise I planned to photograph. All of these have happened... and yet I ended up loving the resulting images I made even if they were not what I planned.
I'm sure there is a lesson here like... remain flexible, stop worrying, make the most of what you are given... but I'm a bit slow on the uptake of lessons like that! :)
The image above was not my planned early morning, incredibly colorful, sunrise in the Pinelands photo I had in mind. The photo that I planned was taken by someone else 10 miles away with better luck than me! Instead, I was walking around in fog so thick you could hardly see. Is this what I got up at 3:30am for? To be in the Pines by 5am in time for the "can't miss" sunrise photo? I knew I should have changed my plans and location when I drove from clear pre-dawn light into the fog bank!
Once I accepted what I was given, I started to truly see the nuanced color and light of the morning. And as the sun started to burn off the fog, it softly lit up the three trees while the background just started to emerge. This combination of soft golden light on the trees while the background was still in the cool blue tones of the fog lasted for about 5 minutes.
Once again I was in the right place at the right time - just like I planned it!! :)
“24 Hours of Light in The Pinelands”
Click on the link above to see six photographs I made in the Pinelands all in a single 24 hour period. I think they capture the essence and variety of this interesting place so remote, yet so near.