Beautiful drive home yesterday evening.  The temperature was a pleasant 60 degrees, a wonderful blue sky with wispy clouds and the orange color of the setting sun.  What a great photo opportunity.

Wouldn’t you know it a barn got in my way and I had to capture the image.  Actually this is one of my favorite barns.  I’ve taken lots of images of it and tonight because of the lighting conditions I took a three images bracketed shot of the barn and I have to say I really like the way it turned out.

It was a classic HDR set up.  If I exposed for the mid tones I was getting a blown out sky and if I exposed for the sky I had a lot of shadows that lost detail.  I was too lazy to get my tripod so I just stood real still and only took three images in the bracket.   Click on the image to see a larger version of it.

Jeanne had a dinner meeting after school so there was no hurry to get home.  I took a lot of back roads on the trip this evening.  I found some interesting things to shoot but by 6:15 pm I was loosing daylight and it was getting hard to shoot.  The bottom image I had to boost the ISO to 400 to get a decent shutter speed.

If it is starting to get dark around 6:30 pm that means in a very short time my commute will be in the dark every night for at least 3 months.  I love this time of the year but I sure do not enjoy that evening commute.

I came into Asbury the back way (for me anyway) and caught a glimpse of the pond at The Meadows Golf Course.  I’ve taken several images of it but liked the color of the trees this evening set against the brilliant green of the grass.

I was about 15 minutes late taking this shot, however I’m still happy with it.  Yesterday morning on the way to work I found a corn field in the valley covered in a dense fog with just the top of the stalks poking through.  I was already 11 minutes late so I groused a little and kept going.  One of these mornings I’m going to leave for work on time and then I’ll get a shot of that fog.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Tuesday and be careful.