Saw this outside my door, so I ran out into the street snapping pictures. It’s amazing what pops up if you watch the sky every evening. These were the most impressive beams of light and darkness I’ve seen; I didn’t even have to edit much. I did a bit of dodging and burning, and added contrast with the curves tool, but that was it.
The light is good. Let the light guide you to courageously fulfilling your dreams and aspirations. But like any good sunset, your dreams are always on the move. I know that, because these sunrays disappeared just a few minutes after I found them.
Canon Rebel XTi, EFS 18-55mm, 1/1600, F4, 28mm, ISO100, 2008-08-26T19:06:22-04, 20080826-230622rxt
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Please credit me as Richard Thripp.
I must say I really like your editing when it comes to these pictures. Again a very nice edit I think. Adding diversity to the colors really improves the feeling.
Thanks Alexander! It’s easy to go overboard, and when I was new to editing I would not edit enough. The key is striking a balance.
Awesome! Too bad blue is no longer your favorite color 😉
That is too bad! There aren’t many red sunsets… the closest I usually get is orange.
Hey, what WP plugin are you using to add: My Twitter Tweets: in the sidebar. Thanks!
It’s the RSS feed widget included with WordPress which I added my Twitter RSS feed to under Design > Widgets. Go to http://twitter.com/home when you’re logged in, scroll down to the left, click the button that says “RSS”, and copy the URL from the address bar, then input it in the WordPress RSS Widget box where it says “Enter the RSS feed URL here:.” My Twitter RSS feed, for example, is:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14248225.rss
Hi, I would love to use some of your sky/cloud photos in my horse ecards as background images. You can check out my ecard creations here: http://alove4horses.com/greetings/ It is a free to send ecard site.
Thanks for considering it.
Sure, go ahead! Look at the line where it says “Download a perfected high-res JPEG or download the source image (Canon Rebel XTi RAW file).” in the post; you can click those links to get a high-res version or the source file for this photo. Most of the other photos I post are similarly available, and you can use them for any purpose (be sure to credit me with a link back to http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/ though).
Wow, what a beautiful photo! You’re lucky to have caught the scene.
Thanks! I’m always looking forward to whatever shapes the sky will make for me… they get more interesting every day.