Upde Designs

One of the great things about this time of year is that you don’t have to wait too long for the soft light.  I left work today right at 5:05 pm and decided that I wanted to take a picture of something on the drive home.

I went past two nice barns (that I’ve been thinking about photographing for the last month) but traffic was too heavy on US 61 so that didn’t work out well.  I traveled what I call the “back way” up past the Monastery looking for anything that would be interesting to shoot.  As I got closer to the Monastery the sun was sinking fast and it was turning a beautiful bright orange in the sky.

I wanted to take a church as a silhouette against the setting sun but I couldn’t get the proper angle on the little church by the Monastery.  So very disappointed I decided to just head for home because the sun was already setting below the horizon.

However, I decided to take the  Sundown Road to see if it was on higher ground and hopefully I could still catch some of the setting sun.  I was really rewarded as I got close to Peosta I came across the above farm perfectly silhouetted  against the orange sun.  When the sun went down too much to shoot the farm I went up the road about a mile and found the trees below, which also produced a great looking image.

So what looked like a dry run came up being far better than I have even hoped for.  Thanks for stopping by.