Towers and Tunnels

Yesterday was a boring one at work. No assignments (except for an eight mile bike ride to shoot a home for real estate that Fred was already at) Just sitting at the computer updating the photos-of-the-week galleries that I'd put off for a few weeks. Around 5:30 a call came over the scanner for a bush on fire at one of the junior high's. I figured it'd be out by the time I got there but I was looking for an excuse to get away from the desk. Rode by, no flames, no smoke, no nothing, dinner time. After a healthy three servings of mac-n-cheese I decided to leave the gear at home and ride back to work light weight. As soon as I hit the road I looked up and saw the wispy high clouds starting to light up from sunset. Back inside, cheap tripod, grad filter, backpack, thinking of what foreground to give these clouds.

Ever since the old, scraggly oak tree on the covell village property fell I've been looking for another defining landmark near town to compose my sunrise/sunset shots with. Just beyond where the old oak stood, at the old hunt wesson plant, the developers left one old tank standing when they tore down the cannery. Could that be my new landmark? I took a chance and headed that way, hoping the homeless in town had cut a hole in the fence to set up a camp in there. Cutting past the little league fields my luck was even better, the gates there were wide open. The tower wasn't as great as I'd hoped, a little too bulky for close-ups and too close to the tree line for middle distance shots.



Looking to find an altenative foreground I backed up into more of the deconstruction debris. Unfortunately the cheap tripod and no remote switch made for shaky pictures of an otherwise nice composition.



The way back to the office lead past the bike tunnel on H St. I'd been meaning to see what the tunnel would look like in photos and since I had the gear with me...