Fire In The Sky

This was one of the cool sunsets we get out here in the desert. Unfortunately, I missed the best part of it and I was still in an area with power lines and other foreground junk. This one would have been really cool about ten minutes earlier silhouetting a Joshua Tree. But as is usually the case, not in the right place at the right time. One of these days.

Haven't had much time lately to get out and shoot pictures. Started working a 9/80 (9 hour days) schedule and with the time change it feels like it is 10 pm when I leave work, even though it is only 5:30. And been trying to learn cross site scripting, which is a form of hacking of web pages, so I can learn how to prevent it on code that I am righting. Since no one else on our team really seems to want to learn any of it. So I will learn it and then break there stuff.... :-) Some one has to, why not me. So it's always an adventure. Trouble shooting other people's code and fixing it for them and figuring out creative new ways of breaking it for them.

I have decided not to do the Death Valley trip for Thanksgiving as I had originally planned. Still can't afford the new tires for my truck. So I am going to forgo it for a bit. Maybe some time in Feb or March. We'll see....

July Sunset

Photo of the sunset, same day as the sunrise.

Afternoon at Apollo Park

I decided to take the Carpet Sharks out and run them a little this afternoon. Just to run down some of that energy they alway store up before bed time. So we went out to Apollo Park since it is closer to the new house and I hadn't been there in a while. It also was a beautiful afternoon with no wind and looked like it might be a good sunset.

The carpet sharks burning some energy.





You can see Tanners horns in this one.



Strike a pose. Tanner thought it was disco pose... Jordyn went for vogue... Not sure what Shad went for.



I love how the flare reflection worked in this one with the combination of the kids silhouetted as well as the water ripples. Worked alot better than I thought it would.



The sunset turned pretty good. The water was calm so reflections worked really well. Had one issue where as usual at Apollo Park, had a bird crap on my camera. But the kids thought that was really funny. Luckily it was only a glancing splat on top of the auto flash housing.

The following photos are some of the better shots that I took. Kind of an experiment in light.