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Just over three months ago, I stopped posting photos. I fell behind a few days, then a week, and then I realized that the joy had left the process. I’m not entirely sure why.
Computers had gotten reconfigured and I was editing on a small screen, which was tedious. Politics was flooding the basement of my mind. Some software ideas expanded in my head and took up some creativity processing centers. And all the images seemed the same. I’d been posting daily images for roughly two decades, and suddenly the spark was gone. I also wasn’t taking many photos. If the clouds put on a show, I’d grab a shot, but that was about it. That’s about all I know, really.
So I waited. I went to a wedding and took some photos, which breathed some life back into my process. Summer clouds rolled in, which are always a relief from the searing blue, bone-dry skies of summer. The full moon rose between the mountains and a cloud layer. And yesterday I went to my favorite coffee shop and saw the light reflecting off a wooden table top, a painted brick wall, with silhouettes cutting out designs from the big picture window, and I pulled out my phone to work the angles.
It seems balance has been restored and the spark has returned.
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Coffee shop shine.
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I need an AI to kill all the popups suggesting I enable AI. I’m starting to look for services that will promise never to interrupt me to advertise new features.
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The high peaks above Bishop Creek, sharp as razors.
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Band of mountains, wedge of light.
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Pine Creek canyon looking bright with late spring snow.
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Cottonwood trees have great silhouettes.
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In the low-lying areas, where the cold flows down from the high Sierra, the green tint of spring comes slowly.
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Mt Tom, shrouded in clouds, looks much smaller than it actually is. Clear skies will reveal its true majesty.
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Haze can mean fire, but I’m not sure what caused this. It’s nice to have the photographic affect without the danger.
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Another pastel sunset.
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Despite the lack of greenery in Pleasant Valley, the cows find something to graze on.
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Cottonwood in Pleasant Valley, still not awake to spring like its siblings elsewhere. Cold air flows directly down this river valley from the high Sierra, so I think the plants green later here.
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Oil has come to a fork in the road.
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Sage to snow in just a few miles.
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Soft sunset lighting up the Sierra Wave.
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Round Valley, waiting for spring.
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Mt Tom on a ice spring day.
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I visited the big Cottonwood down by the pond, but the pond was dry.
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Mt Tom, lost in the mist.
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I can’t even imagine how you’d get this sorting bug.
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Often this land presents as layered, horizontal zones of vegetation, geology, snow, clouds, and sky.
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This was really quite the cloud banok ver the Whites. I took a lot of photos and found it hard to narrow down the list.
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