Working With Images

I took these two photos a couple of days ago on different days not knowing exactly why or what I was going to do with them. This morning I decided to try some different approaches to editing them. First obstacle is the sun, it's in my face. Second is my lack of imagination so I wasn't sure how to approach them. As I worked on each photo I kind of fell into clarity and impact on the first one and haziness on the second. With the clarity/impact I thought it showed that the day was going to be a good day and with haziness my thoughts led to the future and the harvest. See what you think.

It's going to be a brilliant day!

The Harvest Is Coming Soon

September Fogs in Ohio

Fog in Ohio is very common in Ohio during the months of September and October but more likely in September. We recently had a couple of mornings where some school districts were on the 1 or 2 hour delay. Here in the Dayton area the buses ran on time to no joy of the kids I'm sure.

Foggy pickup

Get'em there safely

There's the sun....do your job

Reflections

Strangest weather I've seen. So hot all summer with little to no rain and it's only the first of September. 90 degrees tomorrow with and high humidity. Fog is setting in tonight. I got this picture of the tree in the back that is turning colors. I just happened to catch the water sitting on the deck railing.

Just Let It Rain

It has been dry here pretty much all summer. Last night we got our first rain from Isaac with more scheduled today but the larger amounts starting Sunday and running up to maybe Monday. Forecast from the guessers (weathermen) is 2" to 5". Depends on where you live, hahaha. It's like in the winter, if you live north of I-70 then you will get more snow, now it's rain. We may have flooding.....maybe......depends on how fast it comes down. Bottom line, we need rain and everyone knows that you will get what you get and a county over may get more or less. Oh, and as far as flooding goes, if you dump a bucket of water on the ground it will run to other places but if you slowly poor it out it will get to soak in, no matter how dry or wet the ground it.

Just let it rain.

On a side note, the corn in the distance looks like this should be the end of October where you go to get stalks for decorations.

Star Gazing

While waiting for the Persied meteors in the dark I didn't realize I was getting this tree too. Lighting on it was from a street light some 300 yards or so away.

Persied Meteor Shower

Up until 2AM and only seeing three meteors was discouraging to say the least. Those that I saw were never in the view of my camera. Issue for me was Dayton and Kettering, OH lights as well as a mall called the Green that isn't much more that maybe a mile or so to the north. There was some haze in the air from earlier clouds. The meteors were to come from the north north east so that horizon was pretty well lit up by man.

Anyway, I got this airline some 5 miles up I would guess. It's traveling west to east.

Jet in bottom (west) headed to the top of frame (east).

Leaving the top of the frame.

Going left to right in middle of frame. Small super high clouds whisking by.

Headed towards destinations unknown.

Not sure how far one can see at night but I am impressed with the little lights on these planes. He is a long ways off.

Side marker of a Citation Jet (CJ).

A Well Deserved Drink

We've had a drought going on in our part of Ohio, not as bad as it is in the middle of the country but bad enough. Starting yesterday we got rain and much cooler weather, barely out of the 60's. Last week was a different story as they were forecasting low 90's and the thermometer hitting upper 90's. This is where they say, "but it feels like". All I know is HOT feels like HOT.

It's always hard to keep plants in hanging baskets hydrated. The wife was watering her hanging plants from the deck when I thought that might be a neat shot of the water.