Little Missouri National Grassland, North Dakota, September 2020
Due to the Covid-related closure of all campsites in the National Park we camped in small national forest camps just outside of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Very few people, same landscape, same great sky… Priceless!
Nikon D750, Nikkor 70-200mm / f4, @ 72mm, 1/160s, f/5.6, ISO400, matrix metering, underexposed by -1 stop
I trust you all had a nice Independence Day here in the United States. We spent this sunny and very warm weekend tent camping with the grandkids and their parents and had an enjoyable kayak trip with them. Of course, eating a good dinner is important after such exercise! Shortly after the fire in the grill got started we watched how the smoke made the sun beams visible that came through the canopy of the trees. Oh, I can’t bypass such a photo opportunity… 😊
Nikon D750, Nikkor 70-200mm / f4, @ 95mm, 1/200s, f/4, ISO400, matrix metering, underexposed by -1.3 EV
We had a busy weekend attending the first birthday party of our grandkids Anthony and Teegan and finally today the baptism of the twins and their dad Danny. This all took place in Jefferson, a small town in central Iowa just northwest of the capitol Des Moines. With the possibility of some thunderstorms this weekend my landscape gear was always with me.
Finally a small, very local thunderstorm approached the area yesterday evening. The picture was made through the glass of a surprisingly clean window from the third floor of our hotel. I would have preferred to go outside, close to the little pond behind the hotel, but the light spectacle lasted only a few seconds. Despite the “extra filter” between the lens and the subject, the click had to be made and I think the photo tells the story of a very common little thunderstorm approaching. By the way, it dissolved as quickly as it came up and we didn’t even see any rain at our location...
Chicago O'Hare International Airport (click on image for larger size)
I was flying back home from Dallas, TX with a stop-over in Chicago O’Hare very early today. Usually there isn’t much time between flights but when I saw the light unfolding, with “angel rays” over the skyline of downtown Chicago and some great reflections on the tarmac and the parked aircrafts, I couldn’t resist to get the camera out of the bag and make this shot through the glass of the terminal window…
