Showing posts with label Piedmont. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piedmont. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Scattered Light

The Black River
near Piedmont, Missouri
Photograph by Tom Atwood
I went to the Black River looking for darkness, but found all kinds of light in this photograph taken beneath the spillway at Clearwater Lake. The Milky Way glows like dust above the clouds, while the clouds themselves are lit from below by scattered light, most of it out of nearby Piedmont, a small town several miles away. The hillsides are lit by flashlights shining in the hands of hikers, walking the paths along the river in "darkness."
Shutter: 25 secs; Aperture: f/3.5; ISO: 3200; Focal Length: 18 mm

Friday, January 25, 2013

Memo to MoDOT

Barn near Piedmont, Missouri
Photograph by Tom Atwood

This magnificent barn is on a county road in Missouri with a very generic name: Highway V. I prefer the county road names in Illinois, names like Quercus Grove, Gilomen, Fruit and Jersualem. Why are roads in Missouri named after letters of the alphabet? I blame unimaginative thinking. 
Shutter: 1/160; Aperture: f/6.3; ISO: 320; Focal Length: 18 mm