Day 173: A Glorious Sunrise

This morning I decided to leave a little earlier in order to get something other than an empty field in the foreground. I didn’t get out as quick as I would have liked, but I did manage to make it to a barn that has appeared on this site before in time for most of the sunrise. I had the tripod out with the intention of making another HDR shot. While taking the pictures and reviewing them though I really liked this one that had the barn silhouetted against the sunrise. When I got home tonight I still ran the pictures through my HDR software just to be sure that I didn’t have a gem there that I didn’t realize. I knew though that this would be the photo of the day. The blowing stems in front of me ended up being my undoing in the HDR process. Unless I went in and photo shopped them out they gave the program fits, and I never got any kind of workable result. In the end I had my picture, and I learned a lot in the process. At the end of my shoot I noticed some blue and red lights behind me. It turned out that a state cop had taken notice in me, and stopped to see if I needed help. I told him that I was getting a sunrise picture, and he said good luck and drove away. This is the first time that I have had the lights turned on by a cop for me, but I think it was more for his protection in traffic than anything else.

A couple of milestones were reached today. First of all even though this is day 173 it is the 200th post on this blog. I have had a few bonus shots that have skewed the post total a bit. In even better news last night I officially went over my previous record for views in a month. This has been a great month so far, and I just hope that I can keep the pictures coming.