Skywatch Friday

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We had just taken our daughter's boyfriend home Sunday night and were on our way to meet friends for ice cream. Although the local Dairy Queen was calling our names, when we saw this sunset my husband knew I'd want to stop for pictures! He's such a great sport! Our friends already had their ice cream when we arrived at Dairy Queen, but maybe once they've seen these photos they'll understand why we took so long!

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Thursday night I managed to be out and about at the time the sky was spectacular! I was unable to pull over at the precise time it was the most captivating, but pulled over at the first opportune moment and this was the result. The photo doesn't even come close to doing justice for what it looked like in person!




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Autumn Sunset

As Heather and I raced down the highway to get to church tonight, we stopped quickly to snap some photos of the gorgeous pink sky. By the time I got to a good stopping point, the sky wasn't nearly as pretty anymore.

October Sky

I witnessed a beautiful sunset as I drove into town to pick up my daughter from her after school activities. Of course I had to stop the car and get out to take some photos before continuing the drive to the school!

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As we drove into San Antonio for a football game Friday night, this is the sunset view we had from Interstate 35!

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Sunset on Lake Placid last Sunday evening.




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These are just a few more sky photos of the sunset I watched on Tuesday.

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Ok, So I'm Just Continuing the Pattern Here...

Erica noted on the last blog that I seem to have a pattern going since the last several posts have been sunsets and sunrises. I can't help it, that's just what's been photo-worthy lately. And today that proved to be true as well. I've decided Heather should get out of school at 8:00 every night if that means I can watch the sunset on the way to pick her up!!! I was late picking her up tonight because I stopped at least 6 times to get out and take more photos on the way to town. Poor Marty was with me and although he was a good sport about all the stops he did say once that maybe he should have just stayed home! :0)

I noticed the sky right away as we headed into town tonight and waited for the first opportunity to pull over to get a good picture. I stayed there snapping away for quite a while before heading on. The closer I got to town the more spectacular the sky became:

The first thing that caught my eye with this sky are the glowing edges of the clouds.

The longer I watched, the more pink began to show through the clouds and the more they seemed to glow.

Right after I got back in the car for a 2nd time I noticed the sun peeking through and had to stop again. Sorry Marty, it's just what I do.

On the opposite side of the sky from the above clouds, this is what it looked like:





We've had so much rain in the last couple of days we even have a few mud puddles in the sand hills! I walked a little way up the road to capture the sky's reflection in this puddle. Thankfully Marty just pulled the car on up and followed me. :0)





This is what those clouds looked like just before I got into town:

A Quickly Setting Sun

I guess there is one advantage to having to be the one to go pick Heather up from band at school at night. I drove into town just as the sun was setting. It sure was quick tonight with all the clouds and rain but I pulled along side the road to capture it while it lasted.

When Heather got in the car she said, "Well the sky WAS pretty..." I told her I saw it and even got pictures and she pouted because by the time band was over for her she missed getting any photos of the sunset for herself.

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I saw this sunset from I-10 as I was driving to San Antonio to pick up my niece to come spend the weekend with me. I got off the interstate as quickly as I could before the sun disappeared altogether and the sky changed.







As I returned to the car, this is the view of the sky over the interstate in the opposite direction:



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Skywatch Friday (late again)

I don't have any skywatch photos from this week so I'm posting an old one I took back in November of last year.

(This is straight out of the camera, with no photoshop enhancements at all)

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Photo "Adjustments"

I didn't post anything new last night because I was working on another photo project. I've begun to upload photos to a website called RedBubble where artists and photographers can upload their work to sell as prints, cards, tshirts, etc. I don't know that any prints will sell but it's free and it's worth a shot, right? My husband will be heading off to Brazil this fall with 7 other church members on a mission trip and the whole team has been working hard to raise the funds to go. If you're interested in helping out, head on over to my other blog to see how.

Some of the photos I've uploaded to RedBubble have been "tweaked" before uploading. I've been playing in Photoshop. You've seen this shot recently here, straight out of the camera (2nd photo on that post). I did some tweaking of the colors for that post and removed the power lines. For my RedBubble upload I made some major adjustments as you can see here:

Straight out of the camera:

Here's another I posted recently on my other blog that I changed in Photoshop:

Straight out of the camera:

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Another Sunset on the Guadalupe River

Our pastor and his wife live on Lake Placid on the Guadalupe River. We enjoyed a nice time of fellowship at their home after church tonight and while we were there I snapped several shots of the sunset and clouds.

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This was taken on Hwy 46 between Seguin and New Braunfels last night when Marty and I went for a motorcycle ride. I removed the power lines and bumped up the saturation just a bit in photoshop. The straight out of the camera shot is below.

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Sunset View from a Sky Trac

My husband had some construction equipment at home tonight so he offered to send me up in the air to get a view of the sky. Our property has lots of trees so views of sunsets, etc., are very limited here. I know I should save these shots for "Skywatch Friday," but I am not a patient person and I do have lots of sky photos to choose from for the next Friday post.

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Sunset on Lake Placid on the Guadalupe River in Seguin

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Sunset in the Sand Hills