Shadow and Light
This is the fourth in a series of sunrise shots that were all taken within 30 minutes or so of each other. This photo was almost rejected (which is my way of throwing things away – kind of). The rejection would have been based on the fact that so little is well exposed on this [...]
Avalon
This sailboat is owned and operated by Steve and Kitty. It is a Tartan 32 (?) and it lives just a fews slips down from Wandering Star. It the kind of boat I wouldn’t mind moving up to some day. Yes, I have boat envy. What would Freud say?
Mirror With Shades of Pink
As if to prove my point about redundancy (or obsession, compulsion, practice, repetition, etc.) here’s a morning cloud shot. To be honest, though, when the sun rose high enough the morning I woke up in this back bay on Lake Oahe, this is the first thing that caught my eye: narrow, nearly pink clouds reflected [...]
I Am No Claude Monet
Nor was meant to be. (As TS Elliot might say.)* But just as Monet painted canvas after canvas of haystacks in different light, I seem to photograph clouds at sunrise fairly regularly. Redundant? Just as it was with Monet, for me it’s not so much about the subject; it’s about the light. And the place. [...]
Purple Dawn
This is pretty much the same view as yesterday’s post, though taken several minutes later with no sailboat to block the view. Seasoned Oahe boaters all know that one of the most unusual features of the shoreline this summer is that for late August, things are still incredibly green. Pierre, SD, which lies just south [...]
First Light In Mission Creek
I made the 15 mile trip from the Spring Creek Marina to Mission Creek largely under power since the wind was light to non-existant. The weather forecast was for good weather overnight and light winds in the morning. For me there isn’t much better in my sailing world than to wake up in a remote [...]
One Good Tern. . .
. . . deserves another, as the saying goes. The birds in this photo are least terns, whose nesting habitat, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, “is found . . . on sandy beaches along the southern coasts of the United States and up the major river systems far into the interior of the [...]
Relic – Window Detail
This window was one of several that graced the house I posted yesterday. What is interesting to me is that a supremely isolated residence built on the bluffs of the Missouri River would like have been a utilitarian structure – a roof, walls, doors and windows. But these windows aren’t standard windows, as far as [...]
Relic
One bay west of what local sailors call “Hurricane Bay” a structure of some kind is just barely visible above the bluffs, which rise at least 70 feet above Lake Oahe. I have dubbed this bay “House Cove,” though I’m sure there is some other name for it. Yesterday, I pulled Wandering Star up to [...]
Another Sunrise
The sun comes up every day, of course. In my life, there have been close to 21,000 sunrises and sunsets. On a small fraction of those 21,000 days I have been out with my camera. And on those rare days that I have my camera, it is rarer still to have the luck of good [...]
I’m Back From Therapy
The prescription was a week of sailing on Lake Oahe and I gladly complied. My ailment? Nothing really, given that I have a good life. But being on my boat for a week is my meager excuse for ignoring my “Photo A Day” blog. I should have called it “A Photo Once and A While.” [...]
Really???!!!
Yes, this is my Ford F150 pickup truck. The story is that I was out taking photos of an old farm around sunrise and when I finished, I turned towards my truck and there it was, looking like an advertisement. And so I took this photo. I promise something better tomorrow, though it’s hard to [...]
Sunrise With Grazing Cattle
It looks like I am on a sunrise kick lately. So here’s another, this time with cattle, though they seem more focused on breakfast.
Sunrise – July 4, 2011 (Looking East)
Any experienced sunrise observer knows that often the most glorious part of the sunrise is what you see just before the sun comes up, especially if clouds are present as they were on this morning. I have found that you have only a few minutes before the clouds loose their red rims from the insipient [...]
Sunrise – July 4, 2011 (Looking West)
Generally, the western sky isn’t what gets our attention at sunrise. But on this morning, from one of my favorite locations in South the Dakota, what I saw when I looked west was worth capturing. If you knew what to look for in this photo, you would be able to find Harney Peak, which is [...]
Elemental
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers spent considerable time pondering the nature of the universe. One, whose name was Empedocles, said simply that everything can be reduced to four elements: air, earth, fire and water. Of all of these, my camera is most often drawn to the latter. Maybe that’s why I return again and again to [...]
Rigadoon
It was a beautiful day for sailing yesterday. This boat is Rigadoon, owned by Dan and Pam Cronin of Pierrie, SD. This is the same boat posted yesterday, incidentally. Pam was at the top of the mast replacing something called the windex, which helps a sailor judge the wind. If you look towards the top [...]
Rain, Fog & Trees
I drove up to what some people in Watertown call “Harmony Hill.” It was a foggy morning and I was thinking that I would get an interesting shot of the ethanol plant down below, belching steam into the early morning fog. But when I got to the top of the hill, I couldn’t even see [...]
Iron Creek
I’m back at Iron Creek again, but this time with my cell phone camera and Instapaper. I made a short video of this place, which you can view here. The video was made with my iPhone and then edited and published (via ATT 3G) with my iPad 2. The movie needs more editing but it [...]
Where I Work
Just in case some of you are lounging in tropical climes and were missing the experience of a South Dakota winter, this may help. This is one of the west doors at Watertown High School a month ago on a day that wasn’t exactly a “Chamber of Commerce” day. The good news is that most [...]
A Summer Morning
I wasn’t really looking for a photo like this to post but when I came across it, I was so powerfully reminded of what it feels like to stand in this place on a promising summer morning that I had to publish it. I can feel the humid breeze, I can sense the growing warmth [...]
Let It Snow?
I waded out to the mailbox in snow that is now about 10″ deep to take this photo. Since then I would say we’ve had a few more inches. Plus wind. Let it snow? Really!
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