Tag: Photgraphy

Orange, Blue and Grey

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Weekend is here and I’m trying to decide what to do. One option is to drive up to the mountains and see what’s going on up there, but I’m afraid by now all colors are gone and it does not look anything like todays photo. Another option is potentially take an overnight trip to the coast, longer drive and will require hotel expense. The third option is to stay home, chill, process some photos, rake some leaves in the yard and go to the Y. Hmm. What its gonna be.

This photo was taken from the “hikers” hike at the Grandfather  mountain. If you drive up to the top of the mountain and plan to hike then they want you to park at the hikers parking lot. From there you can take one of the two routes – to the left and  it will take you to the bridge or to the right and it will take you on the real hike all the way up and to the McRae peak and profile hike. So here we are at fairly high altitude, high for NC, looking East into the lower country. Blue Ridge Parkway is somewhere below us, not visible from this spot.

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Lincoln memorial

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Today I finished my work right around lunch time and headed straight to the airport, hoping to get on an early flight to get me home. I checked online to make sure they had available seats on the earlier flight, they had at least 10 available. Unfortunately, about 30 minutes later, while checking in at the registration counter they told me that this flight is sold out. Bummer!

I had about 7 hours to kill before my original flight. My back up plan was to go and shoot some photography around DC. Weather in DC was very cloudy and getting worth, but I think the foliage right now is right at the pick time and it could be a good opportunity to get some interesting photos. At the same time it was lunch time and I was super hungry and also I didn’t want to give up so easily on the flight.

So I made it through security, tried to approach the check-in counter and saw about 50 people wafting in line. Not very encouraging with this flight scheduled to live in about 35 minutes. I use to be member of the US Air Club and they have their own check-in counter so I headed straight up another floor.

I have to say that US Air Club representatives, especially, the male representative was not very friendly. All I wanted to see if there are any seats available on the flight. I’m not a member anymore of the club, but there were no customers at the counter and three of them US Air Club rep’s seating behind it. This guy first refused to even assist me, so I moved on to the lady, she took a look at the flight information while this dude was making remarks that I was not suppose to be here and if I wanted to join the club, he would be happy to assist me and stuff like that. It took lady rep about 30 seconds to tell me that flight is sold out. “How difficult was that?” I asked the guy as I was leaving his precious club counter.

So yes, I was still hungry and my favorite 5 Guys joint is right at the end of tarmac. As I was eating my burger I heard boarding announcement. At that point I was trying to decide on what to do next, go immediately back out or spend couple hours at the waiting area. Lots of time to kill. About 10-15 minutes later I was passing by the gates where they take you to these commuter planes, I decided to give it one more try. So I headed down to the gate and asked nice lady if there were any seats available. Well, sometimes magic happens. Someone didn’t show up and I had the last seat given to me. Short bus drive later I was on the plane waiting for me for departure Smile.

And guess what, it started pouring rain. Fortunately, not so long ago I took this photo. No rain. Enjoy.

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Inside the National Cathedral

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Today we are back at the National Cathedral. I think it actually looks kind of better on my photos than in real life. Haha. But it is true, you can look and examine different details, take your time and count all those flags up there (how many of them there anyway?, and what do they represent, anyone?), enjoy the color on the ceiling coming from the bright hot sunny day.

I’ll need to go back there sometime soon, hopefully it is back open for public after recent earthquake.

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Cape Flattery

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Pacific North West is just awesome. Especially when it does not rain. I love the nature out there, the mix of evergreens, water and mountains. It always smells fresh and it is not as humid as on the East coast. This is the view from the most north west point on the Pacific ocean.

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Fall at Salem Lake

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Yesterday evening we went for a short walk at Salem Lake to see if they fixed the dam and if the lake is still deflated. The dam is nowhere near completion and water levels at its lowest levels, but the fall colors are still in full force, just as I was hoping for.

Today I processed two of them from last night and decided to post both of them at the same time.

I did not plan to take a photo with someone jogging, but when this dude showed up I kept pressing the shutter. I ‘m glad he did, it gives this photo some dynamic and a bit more of a foreground focus. Sun was going down but with super clear skies it was very bright, you can witness it by the reflection from the lake.

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This was taken before the first photo, the light at this spot was superb, illuminating fall colors, so I could not resist but take some photos. I hope you  enjoy a bit of fall colors as much as I do.

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