Perfect Sky

I've been waiting forever to take pictures of the Air Force Memorial, but it requires waiting for the perfect sky, because so much of it is in the sky. Today I lucked out. I went to take a picture of an abandoned pool. Those pictures were horrible, but on my way home the sky opened up and I remembered the Memorial. I had so much fun taking these.

I have to say the memorial is cooler than I thought it would be. I've always thought the memorial looks like knife edges coming out of the ground. I find them eery at night and I drive by it on 395 all the time. It's less eery when you are in the actual park. The space is very open and it you get a great view of DC. Actually before it was the Memorial, I used to sit on that hill to watch the July 4th fireworks.

I'm just happy I could make a picture of a landscape finally work.

Rainy Autumn

I went for a walk today to take pictures. I find that when I talk these walks, I can't get the pictures I want. I have no way to make landscape pictures work. All of my pictures are so hard, so focused, so tightly cropped. I frustrate myself sometimes. But I always have to remind myself that this is my style. This is who I am. I am a details person. The big picture escapes me, but the details never do.

I have to embrace that style. I have to remember to shoot what I know and how I know how to do it. If I fight my own style, I wind up shooting horrible pictures.

As I was walking looking intently at the ground, I saw this fortune. I wonder how unobtrusive it is to leave garbage in nature.