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From a recent Fathers and Sons campout a couple of weekends ago.

And no, this is not one shot, straight out of camera. This is a composite of two shots combined in Photoshop. One is a well-exposed image of the sky as it was at the time (which had everything in the foreground completely silhouetted), and one was a well-exposed shot of the tent, grass, and me (which had the sky completely blown out). Put the two together and this is what you get.

If anyone needs a run-down of how to do this, let me know and I’ll put one together.

And yes, I’m not very good with my layer masks, but I’m getting there.

On the way home from our Sunday night stroll.

ISO 100, 1/80s, f3.5, 18mm

Green for Earth Day.

We took a walk on Sunday evening to our friends’ house to drop something off, pulling the kids along in our pulled-from-the-trash wagon. This is probably not that significant to you, until you consider that our friends live a mile away. Exactly. A mile is a distance that we don’t usually just walk, especially not when we are pulling kids along in a wagon. And there are hills to go up.

But look at us anyways, saving the Earth while saving our wallets and our hearts.

And before you say anything, I pulled the kids the whole way there. And it’s a good thing I did, because the sunset was amazing. Those pictures will have to be for another post, though.

Top: ISO 100, 1/50s, f3.5, 18mm; Bottom: ISO 100, 1/30s, f3.5, 18mm

ISO 100, 1/80s, f3.5, 50mm

In Manhattan, after the Buttons and Bows craft show.

ISO 100, 1/80s, f3.5, 50mm