Big Sky

Sometimes nature paints itself a picture, and all you have to do is take a snapshot:

Nikon D300, Nikon 24-70mm f 2.8 lens at 24mm, 1/320 at f 11, ISO 200, hand held no flash. I took this five minutes after getting home after a long week at work. I went to sit out back, with a cuppa, to relax and blow the cobwebs away. This was a just snapshot, one of three I took. I plan to make the three into a tryptich soon, onto a canvas to hang on a wall somewhere in our house. A single shot, taken in RAW, processed twice in Photoshop (-0.5, +0.5) and after a tiny little bit of HDR trickery in Photomatix…

Without getting too philosophical, it’s easy to miss the beauty that you can find in your own back yard.