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ell, maybe. I’m referring to the title. After I made yesterday’s picture I got excited and went back out to see what I could see.
I saw the picture you are seeing. Unfortunately, I mostly made vertical images. When I finally saw the totality of the photograph I realized a radical crop was in order.
That’s the version you are seeing.
I just like it’s depth and it feels like I am looking up towards infinity. And, if this pandemic keeps surging it could be a place that a lot of us see for ourselves. Hopefully not.
Which brings me to this. Turn off the news,, all of it. Well, except for sports where I want watch baseball and Formula One racing.
If we continue watching the news at this time in history we will go off the deepest end. There is too much going on, most of it really bad.
This may mean that you ditch social media because everybody and their brother just has to comment on some news item and 2,870,145 other people pile on.
You can’t even get into a discussion about nature without some bonehead jumping in. It goes like this. Comment: “The sky is blue.” Reply: “Well, Biden sucks.”
Enough.
Go hide out for the weekend. Everything will feel better next week.
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retty soon you are going to give up on me. I keep making pictures that do not require tricky postproduction unless you are feeling particularly crafty.
Once again, all I really did was see it, shoot it.
Expose for the lightest part of the scene and the darkest part will get even darker.
Make it darker in post if you need to. But, it would be better to learn how to make a proper exposure and not need to.
In order to do that, you might want to turn off every automatic function on your camera. Learn how to set the controls after taking just a light reading.
Because.
I have a t-shirt that says, “Everybody is a photographer until…” and an arrow points to the control setting for aperture and shutter speed.
Don’t be one of those everybodies.
STORYTELLER 
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