On my way to the beach I saw lightning in the predawn darkness. It gave me ambitious photographic thoughts. But by the time I arrived, the lightning excitement was over, with only a few distant flashes in the clouds out over the Gulf.
The thunder had quieted,
but the clouds promised me they would be magnificent. When the sun lights them up, I mused, there will be great drama. But as the morning grew lighter, the thunderheads
drifted away and began to dissipate, without a glance over their shoulders to me and my expectations.
When the sun cleared the horizon behind
me, it painted the sky with golden light for a few
brief moments. And then, as the glorious glow faded, a rainbow gradually
arched across the sky.
Forrest Gump reminded us that you never know what you're going to get.
© 2013 Buck Ward The Photographist www.buckward.net
Life may be like a box a chocolate, but your landscape photography is not. We know that we will always get a beautiful photograph.
ReplyDeleteNice job on all of them. I can't chose a favorite.
Many thanks, Don.
DeleteI just love the colors in the first one of this series. Just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you Celia.
ReplyDeleteThe colors of darkness, revealed by a long exposure. The pier was lit by lights on the shore and the sky was lit by the violet lightning.