Sunset in Haw Creek Valley

A friend is leaving the area and wanted to have a pic of the AVL area. So, I used that as an excuse to go to the Blueridge Parkway and tried this. What do you think?

A couple days later, I was in town about sunset and tried this.

Leave a comment or critique 

Later, olc

Another one from the other night

I think that my camera does not so well at high ISO, I have to do a bit of work to get rid of the grainy darks. Also, I need to work on the composition, or crafting of each shot. I am using the Crop tool way too much. But here in another go the Grinner. Unfortunately, my friend had left before I took this one and all I had was this silly watermark.

So, what do you think?

olc

Sometimes you meet the nicest people

So shit has been piling up lately, and I have not been able to do much but work and try and get that room going. Needless to say, I have not been able to get out and ride much, one of my fall back stress relievers. However, I have been playing around with the camera in my make shift studio. I will get some more of those shots up soon---in my abundant free time, lol!

At any rate, I decided to shake it all up and go onto the the Blueridge Parkway for some sunset shots last Saturday night. I threw my camera and stuff into a bag and the Grinner was growling away impatiently waiting for more gas.

We rumbled to the Parkway and found a nice turnout. About that time, the Earth had reached its point of just before disappearing below the horizon for another long and dark night's sleep.

Anyhow, at the turnout someone saw that I was posing the bike and offered to take a picture for me. I am ugly and worry the lenz will crack if I get in any shots. I returned the offer and asked her if she would my grace my camera with a picture. She said yes! Can you imagine that?

I hope she sees this image and likes it. It would be nice to spend a minute taking some portraits of her. Some people just have a natural beauty that starts within and glows on their skin.

And you can meet the nicest people when all you really want to do is take a few pictures.

Imagine that, "You can meet the nicest people," while riding a motorcycle and I was not even on a Honda...lol

Enjoy the night every one! olc

The Grinner at sunset

I call my bike The Grinner because of the facial contortions I experience whenever I ride it. The Runtyun and I talked about what we would call the bike. She wanted to call it Bob.

The other night I rode a little and found this place looking over Looking Glass Falls from the Blueridge Parkway. To tell the truth, I don't think The sky was so well defined. So, I played around a little in post. I enhanced the clouds a little. Then worked on the rock face to pull some more details. Of course, The Grinner was perfect, so I did not do anything to it.

It seems that I take a lot of pictures of the bike. I am always looking for people to have as models, so if you want to be immortalized in digital media, let me know. All we need is you and a nice background!

olc