1-22-15 & 1-23-15

I have discovered that I have a problem picking a favorite picture from that day.... So I often end up with two depending on how the day went. I need to learn to focus on one thing that day and just enjoy everything else even if I don't take a picture of it. My day-brightener this morning read "God puts each fresh morning, each new chance of life, into our hands as a gift to see what we will do with it". I think this is 100% true. What if today was your last day and you don't get tomorrow? Wouldn't today be better if you didn't focus on planning tomorrow? Think about that.

1-22-15: The sunset and a silhouetted tree

1-22-15: This picture takes a little bit of explanation. It's basically an abstracted pathway. 

Now the process for making this image is a bit confusing. It is a 3-image HDR that I told my camera to take. Because it was overcast this day, properly exposed was near 1 second, so during that initial 1-second exposure I zoomed my lens a little bit, and then let the camera finish with the other two images, and combining the three images into one image. The result is this image that has ghost-like trees and a time travel feel.

1-23-15: A sunset picture of a pinecone. I used the reflection off of my lens to bounce a little bit of the light back onto the pinecone.