Description Fire Over The Ridge is an image that confirms my understanding of photographing sunsets and the associated Golden-Hour exploited by photogs from time looking back. The Golden-Hour is associated with the hour on each end of daylight during which the rising or setting sun casts its light more horizontally across the landscape providing a magistical and at times surreal lighting outdoors and sometimes if you are very very lucky through an open window and onto your subject indoors. It is arguably the greatest time to make photos.Additionally, I like to look all around me during that time because the best imagery isnt always into the the glaring ball of the sun, but sometimes opposite sometime on the oblique sometimes standing on yer head in a bucket of water! Ha! Point is open your eyes and your mind and look around a bit. Hopefully you wont be shooting only one pix during that time but dozens in every direction and at every breed of Mongo. (Flash Gordon reference seemed appropriate at this writing)And sometimes if youve been a very very good boy or girl happenstance rears its seven-headed headiness and bestows upon you events beyond your guessing as in this dynamic shot of wild-fire adding its light to the whole. Those who know my work are familiar with my concept about how our mind catalogs events and memories. We remember much more vividly than our cameras can record. That is why our weekend snappies often disappoint. First they are too small (16 x 20 inches is my minimum). Secondly, they are too dead. That is why I create impressions of scenes and events. Surrealistic moments pushed into the realm of our way of remembering what matters to us is my meat. Persistence Relevance and some other term ending with vance is what Im talking about! ~:0) VivaChas!
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