{"id":5922,"date":"2014-11-23T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2014-11-23T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T12:22:13","slug":"cranes-against-the-sunset-happy-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=5922","title":{"rendered":"Cranes against the Sunset. Happy Sunday!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 Sandhill Cranes. Bosque del Apache NWR<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday promised to provide one of those amazing Bosque del Apache sunsets…there were just enough clouds along the horizon to light up as the sun sank behind the mountains. We set up at the ponds along Route 1 to watch the Sandhill Cranes fly in for the night, and to wait for the sky. Bosque performed as expected. This is a classic Bosque del Apache shot, with the Cranes framed against the flaming sky. There were probably 100 other photographers lined up along the dyke by the ponds trying for this, or a very similar, shot. And that was just yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of images of Sandhill Cranes against the sunset have been taken at Bosque over the years. I have taken quite a few myself \ud83d\ude42 Still, that does not keep me from trying again every chance I get. There is a beauty and a wonder that persists…that is just as intense the 100th time you experience it as was the first. A beauty and a wonder so rich and rewarding that you are compelled to try to capture and share it every time. Or at least I am. Moments like these put us in touch with both who we really are, and, as I see it, with the loving creator of all that is (including us). They are bridge moments…open window moments…moments of profound connection with all that is and to the meaning…the message being written…the life being lived. Beauty, wonder, and meaning written large and bold in Cranes against the sunset at Bosque del Apache. Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n

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