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Good Day!  From a purely photographic view-point the images for today’s post are nothing special and are little more than just snapshots.  But since I hadn’t posted anything for sometime (because I haven’t shot anything for sometime) I thought I would share some images from this past Wednesday.

Our company held its annual golf outing this past Wednesday at the Clinton Country Club.   The golf course wanders through a dense stand of tall trees (in fact the club was once the “Valley Oaks” Golf Course.)  Because of the trees there isn’t much wind on most parts of the course and if you remember Wednesday it was quite hot and very humid. Some of our folks suffered from heat exhaustion and it was difficult to play the last few holes.

The two images above are from one of the golf holes (I don’t remember which one now) and the fairway was taken over by Canadian Geese.  They were everywhere.  The second image is not cropped at all.  I was able to get that close to the goose and he seemed oblivious to my presence.

This image is the real purpose of this post.  I was coming home traveling East on highway 30, it must have been around 7:30 pm when I Saw this big, beautiful, red ball in the sky.  I pulled off the highway on to a gravel road and got my tripod (thinking of an HDR image) and shot about 40 images of the sunset.  The sun was actually as red as it shows in the image.  I did not color enhance it (honestly!)

I see these big red sunsets every once in a while but it seems, up until now anyway,  that I’ve never been in a position to capture one with my camera.

I mentioned HDR a little earlier.  I attempted to create an HDR image thinking that this type of shot would lend itself to HDR very well.  Either I had my camera set up wrong or I wasn’t processing the image correctly because when I would finish with the tone mapping process the image just looked fake.  So this is one of the single images I took.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great Labor Day Weekend.  Be careful.