Tag: nature

Hiking to Clear Lake with a Friend.

My friend Robin and I decided to hike to Clear Lake, for the Colors…… We decided last year… but things didn’t work out. This year we decided to try it again. Schedules worked out for the two of us, the other two were not available. I had a vision in my mind of a photograph I had taken in 2016 and then had printed into a notecard in 2018.

In order to get this photo we had to start at the old Santiam road trail and the McKenzie river trail.


At the beginning of the trail we cross over Fish lake Creek which is actually dry most of the year, or the water runs below the surface of the creek.


The color was fantastic as expected

the trail is well maintained and wide

It is nice and shady with lots of color

Pretty soon we came to the second bridge that crosses Fish lake creek. This is where the McKenzie River trail intersects with the trail that goes around Clear Lake.

My goal was to go to the fingers of Clear Lake to get the shot of the lodge and the 3 Sisters Mountains. So, we didn’t cross this bridge even though my secondary goal was to go to the Great springs. I remembered the bright turquoise blue where the spring hits the lake.

Here on the main trail, I was getting all the color I wanted. and I was enjoying the challenge of photographing the bright trees in the shade of the Douglas fir trees.

Pretty soon we accessed clear lake, and there was the shot I wanted but… Well not exactly what I had photographed before. It was a nice summer day we were in the cool shade watching kayakers making their way along the lake shores

The color of the lake was intense, and I was enjoying the different angles of shots.

The Colors, of the leaves and the lake were mesmerizing….

I came to an old log that many people had climbed on over the years and there was the shot I wanted. We rested a bit on the bench placed just for this view had a bit of lunch then continued on around the bend because the Colors of the water ….

3,000 years ago, the McKenzie River was dammed by the lava flows from Sand Mountain. The trees that were in the valley were trapped underneath the water and have never surfaced. Standing as a ghost forest underwater. You can see some of the underwater trees in this photo.

I knew that these paddlers were working their way into Great Spring, then working their way over to the cove we were in.

The colors were so intense, I couldn’t resist taking more and more photos.

Soon it is time to head back to the car, Slowly.

Enjoying the colors of the lake and the forest. Watching the paddlers

Soon we are at the bridge where the trails intersect.

Robin suggested we go this way and I am glad we did at least for a few feet.

Robin wanted to know if I could photograph the green moss along the trail…. Sure…..

Eventually we made it back to the trail head where we started.
We talked about going into the clear lake parking area at the lodge…. but I was unclear on the parking situation and why we would need to pay the county to park. We decided to go a bit further down highway 126, to Sahalie Falls which is the first water fall down the McKenzie river from Clear lake.

This is one of my Favorite falls to photograph. simply because it is easy to get too.
The first shot is photographed with a fast shutter speed capturing the water instantly. The second shot I slowed down to about an eighth of a second allowing more water to flow through the photo. Not my best work, but a good reminder to not always shoot things the same way every time….
Thank You, Robin, for going along with me on this Fall adventure. Maybe next year Geri and Susan will be able to come with us….










The Power of Friendship: Hiking The Upper Deschutes River Lava Island.

When I moved to Central Oregon 30+ years ago, I had big dreams… I wanted to be a photographer like Ray Atkinson or Erskine Wood. Both Oregon photographers I have admired. I even worked for Erskine and Nancy; in the early 80’s. I had participated in the County fair photo competitions and never won better than honorable mention…. but still I had the drive to do better. I had this high standard that I wanted to achieve, and I knew I could do it with work…. But time, finances, different interests, and different technology in photography, got in the way. Maybe the most important was my own fear of what the unknown would be and that I didn’t have friends to guide me into that unknown. In the past I have always had a big dog to go with me on these hikes that I wanted to do, but the rules have changed on that… I also fell victim to the thought ” Oh that hike is close to home so I will do it later…” Later never gets here.

I joined the Bend Parks and Rec after COVID because I felt I needed to be more active. I have met a lot of fantastic people there and made friends with some ladies who all have different lifestyles, experiences, and interests than I do. Three of the ladies also wanted to get out and hike and a few of those hikes have been featured in this blog.
This hike is another one that was thrown together when a stray comment resulted in plans that had to be changed at the last minute. It was organically thrown together on a Facebook post and the two of us went out to the upper Deschutes River. Close to home but I had never taken the time to do it. what better time than when the fall colors are just popping,

We started at Lava Island Falls and because I took over 180 photos that I whittled down to about 75 to process, I am breaking this into several posts….

Thank You Robin for Saying Let’s Go

Friendship is Team work

and it all works when we engage and support those who can’t make it,

and to be willing to be flexible when things change.
Because the Power of Friendship is the strongest when we all engage and are willing to work through the fear of what is unknown…. and are willing to support those people who want to be there but can’t just yet.
Thank You, Robin for making suggestions….

Sparks Lake First day of fall / Last day of summer

I hadn’t been to Sparks Lake in a couple of years and decided that yesterday the last day of summer and the first afternoon of Fall would be a perfect time to go. The road into the boat ramp was much rougher than I remembered and I was glad that I had a car with a higher clearance. The forest service is responsible for this road and they have not maintained it at all in the last several years.

This photo is of a sign that represents the lake when it is full. It is quite huge and shallow which makes it popular for kayakers and paddleboarders early in the season.
Sparks lake was formed when Mt Bachelor erupted 10,000 years ago and the lava created a natural dam which began collecting rain and snow forming the lake. As the summer goes on the yearly captured water trickles down through the lava and runs underground until it comes back up at the surface for several streams and Little Lava Lake.

By late September the lake has usually drained enough that there is a large meadow with several channels running through it.

These last two shots overlook where the boat ramp is South Sister Mountain is in the background

I decided to go back to my car and then access the lake just beyond these trees. I didn’t get to that exact spot but I got close anyway.

From the other side of the trees, I was able to get a close up shot of South Sister, by using just my favorite 90 mm macro lens.

And a close up shot of Broken Top with the same lens. Both of these mountains I can see from my house on the north side, but they are so different from this angle.
I am hoping I can remember to go back to this lake in July or early August of next year…. Assuming I don’t get busy….

The Importance of Friends and achieving creative goals

For years I had always wanted to enter the Oregon State Fair photo contest. I had been entering the Lane County Fair photo contest for several years and the competition was STIFF !!! I think the best I ever got was honorable mention. I figured that you had to win at the county fair level to enter the State fair level. Before I achieved any coveted awards I moved to Central Oregon and Deschutes County. My first summer I went to the county fair and …. was disappointed at the quality of the photo displays. I could not say I was disappointed at the photos because all I saw was a jumble of poorly displayed 4×6 photos on construction paper with an occasional 5×7 and 8×10 photos thrown in the mix. I didn’t enter my photos in the next years photo contest…. Truthfully my photography had also taken a hit with lack of funds, a new hobby Quilting, and a new interest Volunteer fire fighter…. Photography was not on my radar anymore. Several years later I had moved into Fire Prevention and volunteered at the county fair at the new Fair Grounds…. One of the forest service Fire Prevention officers and my friend Karla, said lets go look at the displays. We wandered around and eventually came to the photo displays. My impression of them was similar to my first impression. Very jumbled, but slightly better at least the 4×6 on construction paper were gone…. Later that year our prevention co-op worked at the state fair and again Karla said let’s go look at the displays. What a Big Difference everything was neat and organized and while I don’t remember much, I remember looking at the photographs and enjoying walking around the room looking at them. One photograph still stands out to this day almost 30 years later…. A simple Black and White of a Calla Lily on a black background and framed with a black mat. Karla always said you can do that….. I will always miss her, but I still hear her encouraging me with that little chuckle she had…. You can do it!!!!
Several years later the Volunteer Firefighter Fire Prevention officer is no longer, and the quilting has been put on the backburner (maybe) but the Photography has come back strong with new equipment that achieves my photo desires. I had joined a group of photographers online and we participated in a 52-week photo challenge…. by year 3 I had made many photographer friends, and each challenge was a contest to see how I could do better than the year before or even improve on another photographer’s idea….

This was one of my favorite photos. It was a layering technique that I had planned out. I knew that this prescribed burn was going to happen, near my home and when they lit up the fire, I was able to take a photo of the smoke column rising over North Sister, from the front of my house. Later in the day I went down to the fire and photographed it from the road while the wildland firefighters were working on the mop up… I used the photos for two different weekly competitions. I was encouraged by Neil, Maryanne, Nicole, Jim, David….. and many other people in the group… While I was active in the photo challenge, I looked up what it would take to enter the Deschutes Co. Fair and the Oregon State Fair. I found the county fair was a jumble but easy to understand, with many different categories. Way too many categories…. The State fair I saw 4 categories and one special category. I really didn’t understand what they wanted….. So I did nothing. My printer had run out of ink during the covid pandemic and when I did get new ink it would not work with my laptop or my new desktop computer. They were not communicating.
Over time my interest in the 52 week contest had waned and many of my biggest supporters had also lost interest. I looked for a different social atmosphere and a way to get exercise…. I joined a swimming pool class that looked fun and after about a year was invited to join a group of ladies called the Pool Pals. A variety of ladies with a wide variety of experiences. Also, we all had similar political interest…. When the current president was elected there was a lot of shock and disbelief…. There are many different levels of activism within this group of ladies, and I admit I am one of the lowest …. I really don’t like to go to rallies…. I chose to use my camera as my protest…. I also like to go hiking or even walking, so 4 of us gelled and started hiking at least when we could… Thanks for those hikes, Susan H, Robin, and Geri…. for me those hikes are a support that say, “You can do this”…. A quiet affirmation that getting out and taking photos, walking and talking with friends is a powerful thing…

I bought a Constitution of the United States booklet and the parchment paper style printed documents that included The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights….
Adding a faded flag that I had hung during COVID pandemic. I photographed them, I even had notecards made from them. I wanted to submit that original photograph to one of the fairs but for the county fair I needed to get my photo printer working, for the State fair I needed to decide on what I was going to submit and it had to be done in by July 20th. Then I had to make sure I could print them. I missed the deadline for the county because I hit a snag with the printer. I had it working a couple days later. I did get the 3 photographs that I had chosen to enter the State Fair in. I waited until the last day and just before I was ready to submit I rephotographed the flag constitution photo without the booklet.
In my mind I could hear the encouragement of the many friends, saying ” You can do this”,” Just Do It”,” I dare Ya…..” I think the last phrase is my Friend Lynne, I don’t think she actually said it, but she has that twinkle in her persona that could have…
This is a long post, and you will notice there are only 3 photos. These are the photos I submitted to the Oregon State Fair in my first ever entry…. The first photo did not get accepted; I knew that the competition for that entry would be stiff… But it represents to me the values of my friendships and that each of my friends, have provided me with the words on those glass beads.
The other two, the layered wildland fire fighters, and the constitution flag shots were accepted but did not win any awards. They do say to me that I can do it… and that I can “Up my game” in the photography genre.
It is to all of my friends I send up a special THANK YOU for all the positive you provide me and the inspiration you provide in my journey to be creative.
Thanks to the ladies of Cinco’s who have been friends for more than 20 years, Lynne, Marcia, Yetta and Susan T. always look forward to our morning posts on FB.
Thanks to Susan T who has been willing to go with me to Salem several trips in just a few weeks (still have one more to go). I only got lost a few times each trip.
Special thanks to Maureen and Vicky for making an effort to go to the state fair on the day that Susan and I went and met up with us in the photo area also the rest stop….. You really made my day on that rainy day….. I am not sure the photo section could recover from some of the current pool class hijinks…. at least we didn’t hold up the flow…
And Robin I am still working on that Question ” What if I ???? for Next years Entries….

expanding my photo ideas with new props

My housemate Susan sells clothing patterns online in her Ebay store… She is always on the hunt for more patterns to list, which usually results in shopping trips for me to expand my photo prop collections. Last week she found large collection of patterns for sale locally on Facebook Marketplace and we went to check the collection out. She bought all of the patterns and as we talked with the lady we found that we had a lot of things in common…. and that the she had several things that she was going to send on to the thrift stores would I be interested in them. The answer was “SURE I could do something with the stuff….” a couple of bags and a box later I had some interesting things that could show up in my photographs…. These tarnished silver plate creamers and sugar were part of the collection. I usually avoid things that are shiny and reflect … well…. Me photographing it. I loved the detail of the set and that afternoon I tried to photograph them with some flowers…. but it was hot in the studio the flowers wilted quickly as did I.

This is probably the best of that photo shoot and there I am reflecting in all three wearing a bright red shirt…. I didn’t like the tablecloth background there were too many flowers so you couldn’t see the creamers or the sugar bowl. I did decide to start over the next morning in the coolness of my studio.

Thinking about that quick shoot the day before I decided to change things up. Use one of the photo backgrounds I had picked up last year. Use the off-white fabric I had picked up at a garage sale a month ago. Grab some of the 2x4s and 2x6s that I had painted earlier this spring and use them under or on top of the fabric.
Grab a couple of my floral frogs. One home made from chicken wire and the other belonging to my mom. This was my basic starting point.

Before going out to my studio I had noticed these books that are some of my favorite reference books. I grabbed them put them in the basket with the camera equipment I wanted use. I love these books because they give me ideas on how to accomplish what I want with my own flowers, vases and other objects that could be used to make the photograph mine. I also love our local public Library where I can check out these books and read them, then decide to purchase them for my own collection. (There is another one on the way to me, that I ordered after finishing it and returning the original to the library).

With the inspiration of the books I cast about in my studio area for something that would go with the creamers and sugar bowl. I found this broken and chipped teacup and two of the swans in my small swan collection inspired by a couple of swans I had gotten from my grandmas and moms’ collection.

Now to arrange them.
And then to go collect new flowers from my own yard…

All of these books used fruits and vegetables in many of their arrangements. So the strawberries were a first collection… and I could eat them as I was working because I have more in the garden. Then came the long salvia stems and the thyme sprigs. The very hardy rose was next with its small open blooms that scattered on the table, and the violas were last.

I am much happier with these photos that I took the time and thought into arranging. I was hard stopping but well ….. The temp in the studio was heating up to the upper 80’s. We still have some more insulation to install and to get a ceiling put up. I would also like to make a better hanging frame to put the background on. Something that is easier to put the background on and stretch it out so that the fabric is not wavy. PVC frame should work. Lord knows one of these days I will climb on top of the table trying to make that background look just right and I will tumble off….
Could I do better? Yep. But that is for another shoot with different flowers…and props…

June. The month when many of my favorite things collide

This June has been a hard month for me, and we are only 2 1/2 weeks into it. Usually for me June slides in quietly, I know that planting sensitive plants before Rodeo Weekend is going to lead to a late frost failure and frustration. I know that the hardier plants are blooming like mad and I must photograph them. I know that setting up my extensive watering system could lead to frozen pipes and so I should wait…. We usually have a cool damp spring and I can afford to wait.
But this year is different. it has been much warmer. I took the panels that wrap my backyard deck for the winter, off in late May. I have been able to sit on my backyard deck and enjoy the quietness, listening to the birds singing and not the neighbor’s over loud stereo bass booming. Planning my next gardening adventure, I have pulled out some of my favorite garden books or barrowed more books from our local library. Photography, Gardening, Flower arranging, and home decor….I have bought more plants and planters. I have expanded my flowerbeds and created a mess with my garden watering system.

I found that I had to start watering early before I had my sprinkler timers ready. I currently have 6 different timers and all dependent on one timer. usually I have a couple days of the system not working and then I managed to get it all coordinated. It is not usually a problem because the temps for June are in the mid 70’s. Not so much this year, this year we have had temps in the 80’s and topping at the 90’s. I finally broke down and got the sprinkler timers going only to find one had quit and had to be replaced. A planned power outage for our local power company resulted in a request from the water guy to not water during that period of time. We are facing another drought year and I try to make my watering go further by watering at night, so I don’t catch that the system doesn’t work until the next morning when I have to manually water, during the morning before it gets too hot. All the while all the plants I have recently purchased are drying out because it is hot and they have not been watered. I have pushed myself to get some of the plants planted and only

had an occasional melt down because my sprinkler system wasn’t working as I want it too…
Finally, I have every plant I bought planted in the ground or the new pots I bought.

I have dahlia tubers planted and some are starting to come up. I am so ready to enjoy my gardens this summer but had to come up with a new watering plan because the garden ideas keep getting bigger…. Another order from Amazon should solve the watering problem, by splitting up the sprinkler timers….making each one individual and not dependent on the others.
I love gardening and I love photography. I love doing them in the early morning before the day heats up…. I love reading and I love shopping at thrift stores. Which leads me to the next installment of my story. The books bring me the ideas the garden provides me the flowers and the photography of the flowers in the vases I find give me the joy.
Except…

The studio Needs Work. Which is my next project now that the plants are planted. Assuming the watering system works right….

Hector the Great Garden Gnome has Arrived….

He settled right in and found himself a home….


George and Jeramiah quickly rushed out to greet him, and they grabbed the Gnome mobile for a quick tour before the rainstorms began.

Todays project was to get the new flowerbed set up with a sprinkler system.

Hector was very impressed that George and Jeramiah got so much done with the trolls., who can be a bit unruly.
The troll kids showed him the lilacs that were planted earlier in the season and how they made sure each lilac got a water sprinkler.

They are hoping that this planting of lilacs will be able to bloom without the deer eating them and will provide a nice visual screen from the neighbors in the back. They are after all a hardy plant old fashion bush surviving years of neglect and deer trimming…. Time for them to get a nice new home of their own…. There was talk of planting petunias around the rock edge since the middle of the flowerbed is still rough and won’t support much in the way of plantings.

Pinks, Pinky and Gemma are wanting pink petunias to go with the heart rock they found

But the other trolls said maybe purple to go with the lilacs. I had to explain to them that it is way too early in the season to be planting them. Hector concurred. Besides I like red petunias.
Before long the clouds darkened, and it started to rain lightly. Everyone started loading up in the Gnome mobile

Except for Lime who was really enjoying playing with the dirt and planning the next planting….
He did finally head in when Mother nature unleashed the biggest thunder and lightning storm of the season with rain the felt like a waterfall from the sky.
Tune in for more gardening adventures from Hector George and Jeramiah, Poppa T, Pinx, Aqua, pumpkin, Lime, Blue, Gemma, and whomever they rope in for their gardening adventures….

Spring cleaning one of my Bearded Iris beds

It is April and this year things are growing early for Central Oregon. Todays project was to get the old Bearded Iris leaves cleaned out of this flowerbed…. Because the location of this Iris bed gets more sunlight than the other 5 locations it starts blooming earlier. I have also noticed that my peonies are coming up, so not only do I have to remove the old iris leaves but the old peony leaves and the various different seed heads from last years flowers… Some are still standing in this photo in the background.

It all started out as planned, reach out grab a handful of old leaves and toss them into a pile for the compost pile. But… that only lasted a few minutes. When I put in the raised beds for the Peonies and the Virginnia Creepers, I made the fenceline side of those beds with cinder blocks, after replacing and changing the location of the new fence last year, I decided to remove part of the old fence. This year I decided those cinder blocks were ugly and pulled them. (back left side of photo) My plan was to replace them with more large rocks… Central Oregon has a lot of those, and I don’t have to go far to get the new rocks for this project since I have a lot of rocks close by. I have a couple of other rock borders that I want removed and it is a perfect use for those rocks.

Now that I have placed the new rocks in the area between the peony flowerbed and the Bearded Iris flowerbed, it is time to finish cleaning up the old leaves. Wait I haven’t photographed my work yet…. And while I am at it I need to include the gnomes and the trolls.

I wonder why it takes me so long to finish a project……

Revisiting my 20234 Aurora Borealis photos Dee Wright Observatory

I first posted some photos of this trip up highway 242 to the Dee Wright observatory, to capture the Aurora Borealis, in October of 2024. That was before I purchased this new Luminar Neo Photo processing program. I didn’t like the quality of the photos and couldn’t wait to see if I could make them better with this new program and the Digital Neutral RAW files. They came out much better than I expected, but the files were huge, and I could not download them onto my Facebook page. Time to learn how to lower the size of the photos, without losing the quality. In other words how to make a photo that is 20 mbs into one that is 6 mbs or 3 mbs…
This photo just happened to be the smallest of the photos I picked to share. I liked the look of the moon rising over the main structure of the observatory, with North and Middle Sister mountains on the left side. It was about 9 in the evening and everything was dark except for the moon. I was packing that sort of fixed tripod, that had broken, and hoping I didn’t run into anybody since the legs were extended. My housemate Susan and I climbed to the top and got set up before the larger crowd of people showed up.

I loved the look of the cars coming up to the parking lot and the reflection onto the blue coats of the two people coming up the lower steps.

The light show started of gently with a light blush of color and you really couldn’t see it unless you had a camera.

Then the color took off.

I loved that I could see the stars behind the light show and even headlights coming up Highway 242 from the east and passing Black crater.

Within an hour of arriving at the observatory the light show was pretty much over and the moonlight was again reflecting off of the clouds with North and Middle Sisters silhouette at the horizon.
I hope I can see the Auroras again and maybe next time I will have new tripod legs.

Is it spring or winter, a good time to learn about my new photo processing program

Winter has finally decided to arrive. We have awakened to fresh snow on the ground, several mornings, the most we have seen all season. Cloudy breezy days, clear crisp warm afternoons, then the snow is gone by evening only to return the next morning. it feels like late winter and early spring here.

I think I have mentioned that my favorite laptop is dying. In anticipation of this a year ago, I bought a computer tower to replace the laptop. I hated the new windows 11 program and had it removed. So, the tower sat for a year+ unused. Now, things have gotten so bad with the laptop that I finally decided it was time to switch my photos and processing programs to the new tower. It has not been easy. The tower refused to recognize my external hard drive and everything I use. The final straw was that my favorite photo processing program that I used daily would not transfer over. I then found myself downloading my photos onto the laptop and processing them then transferring them to a flash drive and uploading them to the computer tower. The laptop crashed several times during this process; I then decided to download the photos onto the tower and then pick the ones I wanted to process and transfer them to the flash drive and ultimately to the laptop process them and then transfer them back to the tower. That worked ok but if I had another idea and went out to photograph it the whole process had to be started over again. Photos were getting lost or left behind. The computer tower program was different, photos were getting lost, files were getting lost. The computer has a different idea of how I should organize my photos, and I couldn’t find them by their date. In order to get the photo processing program, I had been using onto the computer tower I would have to buy the program again. The thing is, the program I was using was limited, it did what I wanted with the photos I had, I knew that there was more that could be done with my photos. I had been photographing with the basic JPG photo program and with the RAW digital neutral program. That means I could go deeper with my photographs but only if I had a program that could work in the RAW and then convert the photo to the JPG program for showing. I decided that if I was going to have to use the new computer for my photo processing it was time to upgrade my processing program. I had an idea of what program I wanted to purchase but I could not remember the name, So I asked my friend Neil Schmottlach, a fellow photo enthusiast what program he was using. He said he was using Luminar Neo. I checked it out found that it was indeed the program I wanted and purchased it. I Love IT !!!! So much easier and faster than my old program.
Now to start practicing using it. What to start with ?…. I am so ready for spring, I decided to go back to last year’s April photographs. There were spring flowers on the west side of the mountains and I had photographed them. The waterfalls were flowing at full force and I had photographed them…. On this gray day where the skies are threatening snow but not actually delivering, I will enjoy last year’s spring flowers.

I will admit these photos are from two different weeks last April, but I just wanted to enjoy them and am putting them in one post.

Sahalie Falls on the McKenzie falls is one of my favorite falls and in the morning, you can photograph a rainbow. This was early in April. I headed down towards the valley and stopped off at my favorite resting spot where I can get out stretch my legs walk down to the river.


because it was early in the spring there were few leaves on the maple trees. I took this shot with the plan to process it from the RAW file. Otherwise the shot is impossible to get a good photo, too much light too much shadow….

This shot was the same idea the only thing lit up were these leaves against the dark Douglas fir tree.

On my return trip home a few hours later I stopped off at Sahalie falls again. The sun had moved further west, and this area is in shadow. It would have been harder to see in those shadows with the regular program, and I am always trying to capture the turquoise color that seems to move through the water as it falls down to the base. Success. after this shot I backtracked about a mile or so and stopped at Koosah Falls which is below Sahalie.

Again the late afternoon light was not the best but did enrich the turquoise of the water. I have shot this in the mornings as well and sometimes the sun blows out the details of the falling water. I ended that day’s photo shoot with a shot of this little sword fern in growing in the moss.


It was kind of dark for photos but I always try to get the shot…. with the new program another success.
The next group of photos were taken about two weeks later when I knew there would be my favorite calypso orchids.

This trillium was just past its prime, when the white petals change to magenta. The trail down to the river was very shady, perfect for trilliums orchids and wood violets

Because it was April and we were in the shade of the Maple and Douglas fir trees, a warm spot in the sunlight was a good reason to stop and enjoy. Which my housemate did.

It wasn’t long before she had her sweatshirt on though.
I admit I am having a lot of fun with this new processing program and well I did go back into my files two years ago to 2024 and the Aurora Borealis shots I took in the spring and fall.
Tomorrows post.