Sunset Fog

We decided to take an evening drive through the mountains after date night dinner Saturday, the 13th of August. I love Summer evenings when the heat of the day begins to dissipate into the night and give into the cool of the evening.

I noticed a bunch of cars parked at this pullout at the crest of the mountains just as we were rounding this curve. I thought, "what's this all about?" Then, there it was... the scene you see in the image.

I was irresistible. That explained all the cars. I told my husband I wanted to stop and capture it before it disappeared into darkness. I told him to drive ahead to another pullout overlooking this scene. When he did I could barely wait to get my seatbelt off and jump out of the car. I had a couple of choices to capture this. I decided I wanted the fog and the silhouette of mountains. I to stayed there and watched it till it was gone. Once I climbed back into the car it was time for the headlights. It was darkish.

Psalm 96:6 Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

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.

Sunday Aventure

Mountain Adventure

A Sunday drive

These images are from an impromptu Fall Photo Shoot of some nearby mountains to where we live now.

I took them with my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android Mobile phone using a couple of different camera apps I installed. I have other camera apps for different functions. Later, I'll post some images using the others so you can see the diversity an android mobile device has.

Panoramic of Glendora Ridge

Fall plant life on a hillside.

Glendora Mountain Range

More Glendora Mountain Range