“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” — Scott Lorenzo

Things I did this week.

Sunday, 08/04/2024: Posted photo — Birthday.

Today is my birthday. It is also my brother’s birthday. We turned 60 years old today. When I was younger 60 years old was old. Now that I am 60, and still actively hiking, it does not seem so bad.

This is a photo of my brother, our dog, and myself in the mid 1960’s.

Monday, 08/05/2024: Posted photo — Heavy Rain.

Over the last couple of days, we have had periods of very heavy rain. This is a photo of the croquet course at the cottage. People were sitting around enjoying the day when the rain came and flooded the area.

There is great drainage in this area. Within an hour of the rain stopping, the flood waters were no longer. Before it drained, I was able to play a couple of games of water croquet.

Tuesday, 08/06/2024: Posted photo — Distortion.

The topic for one of my photo projects this week was distortion. Being at the lake, thee is always distortion of the sun on the water when there are waves.

I just happen to get lucky as a drop of water from a tree causes a splash on the sun making this photo better than I planned.

Wednesday, 08/07/2024: Posted photo — Ambient Light.

For fun tonight, I wanted to make a star trail photo. I will post the star trail photo later this week. Tonight was the only clear night of the week. With the early week’s rain and the remanence of a hurricane this weekend, this was the best, and only night, to do so.

This is a composite photo of 10 of the over 600 photos I took last night. I live in an area with ambient light, as you can see around the tree line. I did take these photos during astronomical night, but the neighbor left his light on all night.

Thursday, 08/08/2024: Posted photo — Flies on Goldenrod.

During my walk this afternoon, I saw some goldenrod. Not unusual for this area. I did notice that this plant had several flies on it. I took out my cellphone and took this photo.

I was expecting the flies to fly away, but they did not seem to be bothered by my presents.

Friday, 08/09/2024: Post photo — Star Trail.

This is the start trail photo that I noted in my Wednesday post. This is a composite photo of over 600 seventeen second shots.

When I was reviewing the photos, I did notice what looked like the Milky Way. The photo on Wednesday was my attempt of developing the Milky Way in my photos. If I thought about it, my settings would have used Milky Way settings on my camera and not star trail settings. Poor planning on my part.

Saturday, 08/10/2024: Post photo — Hike.

This morning, I took a hike to check out the trail conditions on Wachusett Mountain. There are relatives here from Florida, and I wanted to check out the trail conditions as a possible hike. The trails were very muddy so I would find an alternative hike.

As of the time of this writing, we have not hiked yet. I do have a plan on a drier hike when we do hike.

That is all for now. Until next week, be safe.