Happy Sunday!

Bosque del Apache Sunsets can be spectacular (see last Sunday’s post), especially if you are where the Cranes and Geese are coming in to roost for the night. At some point in the process I stopped shooting the sunset itself and started trying to catch cranes as they passed in front. This shot was intentionally exposed for the silhouetted crane and the amazing colors of the sky.

Canon SX20IS at about 500mm equivalent. f5.7 @ 1/640th @ ISO 800. Sports program.

Processed for intensity and silhouette effect in Lightroom. Chromatic aberrations corrected and noise reduced.

And, for my Sunday thought: sometimes all we can see is silhouettes against the persistent glory that illuminates our world, at least to the eyes of faith. And sometimes that is all we need to see. A speck of present life, even in silhouette, provides the perspective we need to face the future with confidence.

But maybe that is a bit much to hang on a crane against the sunset?