It Always Pays

[JimFox]

I have found it always pays to bring a camera along! In this case as I was about to go running at a local area by my daughters in Colorado that has several lakes/ponds I told her as I was leaving to not to expect me back before sunset as I was hoping from the look of the clouds that I might get some nice color. And I did. I had a great run, and then it was the sunsets turn to come running to me.

This is a 2 shot horizontal pano that has been cropped to a square format.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ken Rennie]

Tremendous sky and reflections

 

[AlanLichty]

Great light and reflections. Nice you had a camera along.

 

[Trent Watts]

Sounds like a joy filled day. And a beautiful photo to top it off. A square format has never worked for me on a sky shot but this one works. Maybe because you have such a depth of colour and the great reflection?

 

[JimFox]

Tremendous sky and reflections

Thanks so much Ken!

 

[JimFox]

Great light and reflections. Nice you had a camera along.

I appreciate that Alan. I ran my route with my IR camera in tow. When I finished running I ran back to my Jeep to also pick up my regular color camera.

 

[JimFox]

Sounds like a joy filled day. And a beautiful photo to top it off. A square format has never worked for me on a sky shot but this one works. Maybe because you have such a depth of colour and the great reflection?

It was a very fun day Trent! I am glad this worked out and you liked it. We don't see many square format images, and that wasn't my intent when I started it. But after blending the two images and cropping it down to it's essentials I noticed it ended up being square, so I left it as that.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great image and a rare for Jim pano to boot

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice light and reflection. The pano/crop works well.

 

[Trent Watts]

It was a very fun day Trent! I am glad this worked out and you liked it. We don't see many square format images, and that wasn't my intent when I started it. But after blending the two images and cropping it down to it's essentials I noticed it ended up being square, so I left it as that.

Hi Jim.. I am forced to put some images into a square format when posting to Instagram and it can be very frustrating. There seems to be nothing we can do to slow down the invasion of photography through a 'smart' phone. It drives me crazy when I know how much better the images look on a bigger screen. My rant for the day. Thanks for listening.

 

[JimFox]

Hi Jim.. I am forced to put some images into a square format when posting to Instagram and it can be very frustrating. There seems to be nothing we can do to slow down the invasion of photography through a 'smart' phone. It drives me crazy when I know how much better the images look on a bigger screen. My rant for the day. Thanks for listening.

Hey Trent I am totally with you. I can rant alongside you about how Instagram actually ruins photography.

 

[JimFox]

Great image and a rare for Jim pano to boot

Thanks Ben! And yeah, that's the truth! I rarely do pano's. I have actually captured a bunch of pano's over the last few days. Now whether they will ever be processed is another story.

 

[Beth]

beautiful!

 

[BlackRockArt]

I have found it always pays to bring a camera along! In this case as I was about to go running at a local area by my daughters in Colorado that has several lakes/ponds I told her as I was leaving to not to expect me back before sunset as I was hoping from the look of the clouds that I might get some nice color. And I did. I had a great run, and then it was the sunsets turn to come running to me.

This is a 2 shot horizontal pano that has been cropped to a square format.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

View attachment 49580

Jim, nice reflection, just the right amount of clouds & still water, love it.

Oliver