Yet another gorgeous sunset in Arizona. Enjoy!
Taken with an iPhone 4 using the Camera+ App, edited in Camera+ and iColorama S.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Arizona Sunset - April 2013
Transferred from my blog "Blog the Light" this is a cross-post, post dated 04/28/2013
Yet another gorgeous sunset in Arizona. Enjoy!
Taken with an iPhone 4 using the Camera+ App, edited in Camera+ and iColorama S.
Yet another gorgeous sunset in Arizona. Enjoy!
Taken with an iPhone 4 using the Camera+ App, edited in Camera+ and iColorama S.
Sequia National Park - 2006
From an old blog post, Nov. 22, 2006
To try to put into words the feelings of awe and wonder of walking among the largest trees on the planet, seems to be an exercise in futility. But one I feel compelled to attempt nonetheless.
Seeing pictures and video clips of these majestic giants really does not do them justice. To truly appreciate the immense size of these towering behemoths, you must see them first hand. You cannot appreciate their girth until you have walked around the base of one. You can't fully grasp the heights to which they reach until you stand at the base of one and crane your neck as you look upwards and see them, as my 7 year old daughter said, "touch the sky".
The awe and wonder you experience seems to me to be most fully expressed with the fullness of a single word, "Wow!"
Along the trail to the largest of these living testaments to God's majesty, the "General Sherman Tree", stands a sign, written upon which is a quotation from John Muir. I can't recall the exact words he used, but I fully understand the sentiment behind them. There is an overwhelming need to be silent in the among these noble monarchs of the forest.
To stand there with your hand upon a tree which felt the footsteps of our Lord as he trod the land of Israel, a tree that felt the trembling of the earth when He died upon the cross for the sins of all mankind, fills a person with such awe and wonder at the power of God that words fail him.
As I hiked back to the car, I contemplated these things and as I pulled out of the parking lot, I noticed the reddest sunset I have ever seen. And as the rays from that setting sun touched those trees, they glowed with a fiery and yet peaceful redness that confirmed those thoughts in my mind. It was a sunset that was best captured in my wife's words, "it was a wonderful end to a wonderful day."
To try to put into words the feelings of awe and wonder of walking among the largest trees on the planet, seems to be an exercise in futility. But one I feel compelled to attempt nonetheless.
Seeing pictures and video clips of these majestic giants really does not do them justice. To truly appreciate the immense size of these towering behemoths, you must see them first hand. You cannot appreciate their girth until you have walked around the base of one. You can't fully grasp the heights to which they reach until you stand at the base of one and crane your neck as you look upwards and see them, as my 7 year old daughter said, "touch the sky".
The awe and wonder you experience seems to me to be most fully expressed with the fullness of a single word, "Wow!"
Along the trail to the largest of these living testaments to God's majesty, the "General Sherman Tree", stands a sign, written upon which is a quotation from John Muir. I can't recall the exact words he used, but I fully understand the sentiment behind them. There is an overwhelming need to be silent in the among these noble monarchs of the forest.To stand there with your hand upon a tree which felt the footsteps of our Lord as he trod the land of Israel, a tree that felt the trembling of the earth when He died upon the cross for the sins of all mankind, fills a person with such awe and wonder at the power of God that words fail him.
As I hiked back to the car, I contemplated these things and as I pulled out of the parking lot, I noticed the reddest sunset I have ever seen. And as the rays from that setting sun touched those trees, they glowed with a fiery and yet peaceful redness that confirmed those thoughts in my mind. It was a sunset that was best captured in my wife's words, "it was a wonderful end to a wonderful day."
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Desktop Wallpaper - Water Drops
I took this photo today, just as an artistic expirement. I liked it enough to set it as my desktop background, and discovered that it works very well for that, so I decided I'd share it with you. Enjoy.
Instructions: Click the image to follow the link, in the bottom left corner, click "Options", then select "Download fullsize".
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Is the camera industry seeing RED?
He used to shoot all of the ads for Oakley, in fact he used to own Oakley. Now he has another company, and it had made quite an impact in Hollywood. It's products have been used to shoot major motion pictures like Pirates of the Caribean: On Stranger Tides, Contagion and The Hobbit; shot magazine covers for Bazaar, Vogue and Vanity Fair; and even been used in television to shoot Rizzoli & Isles, Blue Bloods and Leverage. His name is Jim Jannard and the company is RED.
Websites for Photographers
Editor's Note: This is a cross-post from my other blog at mdrisser.com
After reading an interesting post and the corresponding discussion on Colby Brown's page over on Google+, and having seen similar discussions elsewhere, I thought it might be a good idea to go a little more in-depth on the subject of Web Sites for Photographers. So if you are a photographer, please read on.
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