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Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 1/350 sec @f7

I had a wonderful drive home last night.  I don’t often say that but the sky was a beautiful blue with big white puffy clouds and a golden sun.  This is, in my mind anyway, the most perfect time of the year to shoot.  Unfortunately we only get about an hour of that “golden sunlight” each day and each day we get less and less.

I left work yesterday at 5:00 pm and by 6:00 pm the sun was pretty much down with not much useful light left.  But in that hour I had a ball shooting a variety of images.  The image above is a jet plane making its way across the sky.  When I first saw it (and it must have been an optical illusion) it looked like it was going straight up (like I imagine the shuttle would look.)

Anyway it was way more interesting than the traffic so I pulled off the side of the road to captured a few images.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 1/200 sec @f5.6

Ugh another combine.  I know that I shoot a lot of farm stuff.  After all that’s what we have a lot of and we do live in a farming environment.  Besides to me there is just something really fun to watch as these big monstrous machines gobble up the corn and absolutely shred everything and the only thing left is the little kernels of corn.  That’s just wild.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 1/350 sec @f7

I came up highway 61 to Skyline Road and turned West.  As I went by the airport there were some very interesting clouds hovering over the airport.  I’ll show you those tomorrow.  I shot a bunch of landscape images and then I heard this airplane flying overhead.  I looked up in time to capture this neat image of the twin engine plane on final approach.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 1/350 sec @f7

Finally for today this wonderful old barn basking in the orange light from the setting sun.  I have photographed this barn before but it was at winter time.  I never really cared for that image but I have developed a fondness for this one

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to a project I’ve had in mind for sometime.  Generally speaking when I get on highway 61 to go South to Maquoketa it is at the 180 mile marker.  I exit at mile marker 161.  I’ve driven this road for almost 12 years and a lot of my photography occurs on this road.

If I do the project it would be an in depth photography collection of each of the 19 miles that I drive.  On the way down in the morning I can shoot anything on the right side of the car because the sun is on my left side and of course just the opposite on the way home.  So over a period of a few weeks I could catalog the entire stretch from Dubuque to Maquoketa.

Of course I would probably have to wait now because there will be precious little shooting light for the next four months.  Anyway it’s just a thought so we’ll see.  Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your Friday and always be careful. 🙂