Mt Baldy in the Clouds

Cloudy Mt Baldy

I love big puffy clouds.

This evening at sunset I noticed this out my window. I didn't have time to set my camera up. So, I grabbed my mobile phone and snapped it.

I did some post processing edits on it because there were a few unsightly things that were terrible distractions.

I love the way the crevices in the mountain cast the deep rich shadows at sunrise and sunset. I also love the rich warm glow from the sun.

Recently, I've been going through some transformation in myself. Just today I was reading over at Brooke Shaden's Blog. She's a fantastic photographer and story teller. I took a photography class offered by creativeLIVE that Brooke instructed. She creates amazing art. Her post from today [2/27/2014] put me on my toes. I was mentally and emotionally challenged by it.

I struggle with being imaginative and creative. Everything I do is basic safety net stuff.

It's hard to break out of my mental black box. I was encouraged by a few people in the comments on Brooke's post.

For me, my mental black box is just that... black, dark and a dungeon. I feel mentally paralyzed.

When a sliver of light creeps in I'll reach for it. It'll be my escape hatch with a rope that I can climb out of.

When I reach the for the light it will bring light to the darkness. It'll shine bright and show all the wonderful blessings and open my mind to have permission to come out and play.

2014 Anniversary Mtn Trip

Paul and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary on February 13th. We celebrated by having dinner and then we drove up into the Mountains on Glendora Ridge Rd in the Angeles National Forest Area. Paul and I both were playing with my new camera he bought me for Christmas. It's hard to say now who took which. We got several. Many were experiments to see exactly how we could push the camera. All the images were taken between 10pm and 1030pm. There's one image that requires some extra TLC before it can be presented. Below are the culmination of me and Paul's handy work. I did all the post processing treatments to enhance the images.

Please share what you think and which one you like the best!

This image was captured with the moon as seen
in the corner with the glare, 10pm at night, with
minimal post processing.

This is the same image from above. There were
several post processing artistic treatments used.
One, you can see a different moon. The moon
shot was taken a few days before at dusk.
Enhancements were added to stars and colors.

Several post processing artistic treatments were
were used on this image. The basic scene is
exactly as it was captured.