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Darkness enveloped the broad valley of South Park as I crossed it and when I got near the far side, I came to the village of Hartsel. I had to imagine that the kids from the TV program lived in this town. This was the jail there. it was dark when I made this photo and I had to hold the camera against the frame of the van window to hold it steady for the 4 second exposure at ASA 400 and then pump it up with levels and saturation adjustment layers to get the photo to look like it did then... (but a bit lighter than the darkness that existed... brrrr it was cold!) I drove on from there to cross another 9500ft pass and then a 10,500ft pass with snow in the air... I stopped a little while at 10,000ft Leadville to make some phone calls (yippie, cell phone signal) and then drove on to I-70 in dark snowy weather till Fruita where I crawled into my bed in the back of the van for a few zzzz. along the way near Leadville, I kept seeing signs pointing out the 14ers (14,000ft+ peaks) of the Collegiate Range (named after mostly Ivy League schools) but couldn't see anything in the snowy dark skies... I want to return to spend a lot more time in that area. tidbit: did you know that Colorado has 52 peaks over 14,000 ft? We have one here in WA (but that one has the most mass of all individual mountains in the lower 48).Peace Tags: architecture, colorado, mountains, phot expd, signs, snow
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 When I was at this location at the north end of the drivable portion of the outer banks islands of North Carolina, the light wasn't lit till darkness... When I returned from attempting to photograph the color at the beach during sunset there was not enough light to make a photograph with the film camera. However, the Pentax Optio S40 4MP digital camera I had with me would render an image that I could tweak a bit to get an acceptable 'documentary' image. On this trip, by dark each day, I would be so tired that I would just want to find a parking place and crawl into the back to my comfy bed and try to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz till the alarm at about o'dark thirty (4:30-5:30). So, I drove by the lighthouse looking for a parking place and pointed the camera out the window holding it against the door frame to steady it... nope, that didn't work... although the camera has a setting to make exposures as long as 4 seconds, I had to raise the ASA to 400 and after about a half dozen tries, I got out and set the camera on a tripod to steady it enough for the 4 second exposure... then, I had to tweak a bit in photoshop to get an acceptable image. This is one of those lights that pulses instead of sweeping the horizon so there was no beam projected like what I recorded when I photographed Hatteras light. Peace Tags: architecture, beach, light house, north carolina, ocean, phot expd
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